Roofing Contractor Highland Village TX

Highland Village takes more hail than any city in this corner of Denton County. Ninety reports within five miles since 2010, seventeen of them two inches or larger, in a city of only five and a half square miles. Flower Mound, four times the land area, logged 69. The season here peaks in April rather than May, and ninety-three percent of the hail falls between March and June.

The storms have names and dates. On March 26, 2017 baseball-sized hail ringed the city: 2.75-inch reports near Lewisville two and a half miles out, at Lake Dallas, and in Corinth, with tennis-ball hail near Corinth in the same hour. On April 11, 2016 a public report put baseball hail a mile north of Corinth. On March 14, 2024 a ham operator relayed measured two-inch hail in Highland Village itself. On June 11, 2023 a trained spotter reported three-inch hail in Highland Village during the storm that dropped a 4.25-inch stone at Cross Timbers and Shiloh.

The narrative worth reading, though, is from the early hours of June 21, 2011. The NWS recorded golf-ball hail falling in quantity in the Lantana community near Bartonville, breaking numerous windows in cars and homes, denting wood siding and cars, and damaging roofs. In the same minutes, two- to three-foot diameter trees were uprooted in Corinth and shingles were blown off roofs, with an estimated 75 mph gust. That is what a bad night looks like here: hail and wind arriving together on a housing stock where nearly everything is a steep-slope asphalt roof.

Highland Village is also, by the numbers, the most owner-occupied city we serve. Of 5,548 occupied units, 91.9 percent are owner-occupied and 95.9 percent of all housing is single-family detached, with not a single attached single-family unit in the Census count. Median home value is $550,000 and median year built is 1993, and the city is roughly 88 percent built out against a projected build-out around 18,000 people. Almost nineteen percent of the stock predates 1980, concentrated in the older northern neighborhoods along Lake Lewisville where the city started. New construction is nearly finished as a source of roofs here. Replacement is the whole market.

On the code side there is something you should know: Highland Village is enforcing the 2015 International Residential Code, adopted by Ordinance 2016-1214 on September 13, 2016. That is one cycle behind Kaufman and two behind Flower Mound. Its fill-in of Table R301.2(1) uses the regional values: 115 mph three-second gust, 5 pound ground snow load, and ice barrier underlayment not required. There are no local amendments to R905, R907 or R908, so underlayment, drip edge, fastening, wind rating and layer limits all run on base 2015 IRC.

The permit is $100, and it is worth reading the line item carefully: the fee schedule calls it Re-Roof, shingles and decking, which means decking replacement is contemplated inside the same permit rather than as a separate one. Reinspection is $75. And there are two penalties that specifically catch roofing. The unauthorized cover-up fee is $100, the same as the entire re-roof permit, and on a roof the thing that gets covered up is the decking, underneath underlayment and shingles. Separately, the investigation fee for work performed without a required permit equals the permit fee that would have been issued, charged in addition to the permit fee, which effectively doubles the cost of an unpermitted re-roof.

Contractor registration is mandatory before any permitted work, costs $150 and is not prorated, drops to $100 if renewed on or before October 31, and requires a minimum of $200,000 in liability insurance for builders. That $200,000 floor is the highest published minimum among the cities immediately around here; Flower Mound and Kaufman publish none at all.

One detail that matters after a storm: the city states that work performed as a result of after-hours emergency situations must be submitted for a permit the next business day. If a crew tarps your roof at ten on a Saturday night, the paperwork is due Monday. That is a rule most homeowners never hear until it is missed.

A note on the paperwork itself, because you should know what we are working from. The city's contractor registration form carries a 1997 date in its footer and still asks for a Builder ID card from the Texas Residential Construction Commission, an agency the Legislature abolished in 2009. The adopted code says a registration runs one year from the date of issuance; the form says it runs the October-to-September fiscal year with no proration. Both are live city documents and they do not agree. We confirm current requirements with Building Inspections at 972-899-5093 rather than relying on whichever document a search engine surfaces first.