Humble's housing peaked in the 1980s and the 1970s was a close second — together 2,905 homes, 45% of everything inside the city limits. Those roofs are thirty-six to fifty-six years old, which on a twenty-to-twenty-five-year asphalt service life means two full cycles past original. Four in five Humble homes predate 2000. Replacing one properly here means a registered contractor, a permit, and a deck that finally gets looked at.
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Everything comes off. On a 1979 or 1985 Humble house that has been re-roofed twice, the deck has not been seen since the house went up. A recover is a decision to keep it that way for another twenty years, and you cannot warrant what you have not inspected.
Soft sheathing, delaminated plywood, split boards and gaps too wide to hold a nail all come out. You see the bad sheets before they leave and the replacement count goes on the invoice — never a lump-sum allowance written before the roof was open.
Inside the city limits, a re-roof is filed as a Residential Building Permit at $50 plus $0.32 per square foot of roof-covered floor space, with plan review at half the permit cost. Our registration is current — renewed every January, with workers' comp and liability naming the city as certificate holder, as Humble requires.
Humble adopted the 2018 International Residential Code by Ordinance 19-836. We found no local amendment to the roofing chapter, so the unamended 2018 text governs coverings, underlayment, re-roofing, deck sheathing and fastening. We fasten to the manufacturer's high-wind schedule on top of that.
Self-adhering membrane at valleys and every penetration, synthetic underlayment across the field, all new metal, and an honest look at whether the attic actually breathes. On a roof of this era the ventilation was sized by habit, and correcting it is one of the few changes that reliably extends a Gulf Coast roof's life.
Humble's registration terms require inspections to be requested before any work covers or obscures previous work, with permission to cover given in writing. That is a sensible rule and we work to it — it also happens to produce exactly the record you want on a deck nobody has seen in forty years.
Whether your home is inside the city limits or in unincorporated Harris County, then squares, pitch, penetration count, visible deck condition and existing ventilation against what the roof needs. A written number for the roof in front of us.
Shingle line, starter, ridge, underlayment, ventilation and metal, written out so you can see what each choice costs. If your subdivision carries recorded restrictions — Humble's platted neighborhoods commonly do — we check them before material is ordered.
Permit pulled before a crew is scheduled, because the city doubles all required permit fees for work performed before issuance and adds a Code Enforcement citation on top. Re-inspections run $50, then $75, then $100, so we get it right the first time.
Tear-off and dry-in the same day — an open deck does not sit overnight on the Gulf Coast. Then decking, underlayment, metal, field, ridge, the inspection, and a walk-through with you before the truck leaves.
Laminated asphalt covers nearly every roof here. On a third-generation roof the meaningful upgrade is the assembly — a full starter course at eave and rake, matching hip-and-ridge, edge metal and ventilation calculated rather than copied from whatever was there.
Harris County averages 4.5 hail days a year with a peak of nine in 2024. Class 4 is a laboratory impact rating that many carriers discount; we will explain what it is and is not and quote the roof both ways so the premium is visible rather than folded in.
Humble has 441 homes built before 1940 and another 1,036 from the 1950s and 1960s. Metal suits those steeper, cut-up roofs and solves the low-slope porch runs and additions that keep failing in asphalt on houses of that era.
Five years on our labor for a full replacement, written and specific about what it covers, handed over at the end of the job rather than promised on a doorstep.
Install a complete manufacturer system — starter, field, ridge and underlayment from one line — and the manufacturer's system warranty applies in your name, with the registration and documentation handed to you.
Open-deck photographs, the sheathing replacement count, the products installed and the permit. On a house that turns over in a market where most stock is forty years old, that file is what a buyer's inspector asks for.
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Humble files a re-roof as a Residential Building Permit: $50.00 plus $0.32 per square foot of roof-covered floor space, with a plan review fee at half the permit cost. One thing to be clear about, because it is easy to misread — roof-covered floor space means the roofed floor area of the house, not the roof area in squares. There is also a Home Owner Exemption Permit at $50.00 for a homeowner with a homestead exemption doing their own work. We confirm the figure with the Building Department before it goes on your contract.
Humble doubles it. The fee schedule states that any work performed prior to the issuance of required permits results in a fee equal to double the amount of all required permits, in addition to any citation issued by Code Enforcement and whatever fine the Municipal Court orders. Re-inspections escalate too — $50 for the first, $75 for the second, $100 for every one after that.
Worth confirming, because it decides everything. Humble's city limits cover under ten square miles and about 6,400 housing units, while Atascocita, Eagle Springs, Fall Creek, Summerwood and parts of Kingwood carry Humble addresses and sit in unincorporated Harris County or the City of Houston. Inside the city you get a registered contractor, a permit and an inspection. Outside it there is no county re-roof permit and nobody checking the work.
Possibly two previous roofs and a deck nobody has examined since the house was framed. The 1980s are Humble's peak decade at 1,555 units with the 1970s close behind at 1,350 — 45% of the city between them. We quote with a stated decking allowance, photograph every bad sheet before it leaves, and bill the actual count rather than writing a low number and discovering the deck on the day.
The 2018 International Residential Code, adopted by Ordinance 19-836 in February 2019. We searched for a local amendment to the roofing chapter and found none, so the unamended 2018 text governs. That is an older edition than several neighboring cities enforce — Sugar Land is on 2024, for instance — which is worth knowing if you are comparing a Humble quote against one written for another city.
Humble's own residential permit application gives 130 to 140 mph as the design wind speed for structures over 250 square feet requiring engineer-sealed windstorm design. We will be straight about the limitation: that is a form rather than an ordinance, and no completed design-criteria table for Humble appears in the codified code. We fasten to the manufacturer's high-wind schedule as standard and confirm the governing figure with the Building Official on anything engineered.
Most single-family tear-offs are one day, occasionally two on a steep cut-up roof or where decking replacement runs heavy. The scheduling variable is the permit and the inspection sequence — Humble's registration terms require an inspection request before anything covers previous work, with permission to cover given in writing, so we build that into the day rather than working around it.
No. Harris County is inside the Texas Department of Insurance designated catastrophe area only for property east of State Highway 146 and within the city limits of Seabrook, La Porte, Shoreacres, Pasadena or Morgan's Point. Humble is none of those, so no WPI-8 or WPI-8-E applies to a Humble re-roof.
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