Roofing Contractor Hurst TX

Hurst has the oldest housing stock of any city in the mid-cities. The median home here was built in 1975, and 60 percent of the city's 16,790 units predate 1980 — 3,695 from the 1970s, 3,355 from the 1960s, and another 2,885 from the 1950s. Only 766 units, 4.6 percent, have been built since 2010. Hurst incorporated in 1952 with 2,700 people and grew fifteenfold in seventy years, essentially all of it before 1980. That history is exactly what a roofer finds when the shingles come off: plank decking on the older houses, ventilation details from a different era, and roofs that are on their third or fourth covering.

Which makes one thing the City of Hurst published unusually relevant. In a signed letter revised June 2025, the Building Official states it plainly: the City of Hurst does not perform investigative inspections of existing roof decks, nor does the City arbitrarily require upgrades or replacement of roof decking if it is not damaged or if it is in a workable state. And then the question and its answer: who determines the condition of the existing decking and whether there is a need for replacement? The expert does, the Roof Contractor.

We think that is the right call, and we also think it puts the whole weight of the decking decision on whoever you hire. In a city where six in ten houses predate 1980, that is not a small thing. We probe for soft decking during the estimate, show you what we find, and write the allowance down so the number in your contract is the number at the end.

Hurst requires a permit on every re-roof, stated in exactly those terms on the city's own roof inspection form: as a means to provide safety measures and accountability, the City of Hurst requires a permit on all re-roof projects. The published fee is $60, the lowest in the mid-cities. Commercial roofs price off the valuation table instead. Worth a caveat: the fee schedule the city currently links is headed effective May 28, 2019 and the permit requirements sheet is footer-dated October 2020, so we treat $60 as published and confirm at the counter. The city's own page now tells people to log into the permit portal and click Estimate Fees.

The final inspection has an attic component: verifying that vent piping goes through the roof, that exhaust vents were re-installed properly and keep their clearances, and that the general installation complies with code, plus a visual inspection of the exterior. Attic inspections require an adult present with the project accessible between 8 am and 5 pm. Decking replacement always requires a city inspection. But like Colleyville, Hurst lets a homeowner waive the final inspection by signing a notarized affidavit certifying the contractor performed the walk-through and verification themselves. It is your call, and almost nobody knows the option exists.

On code, Hurst adopted the 2021 International Codes and the 2020 NEC effective October 1, 2022. Design values are the regional set: 115 mph three-second gust, 5 pound ground snow load, ice barrier underlayment not required. The only residential roofing amendment is the fire-classification section, requiring Class A, B or C roofing with non-classified coverings allowed on detached sheds up to 200 square feet. Hurst did not amend R903, R905 or R908, so base IRC governs underlayment, drip edge, fastening and reroofing. On the commercial side there is a real local add: all individual replacement shingles or shakes must comply with the rating required by Table 1505.1, which applies to repairs and not just replacements.

The weather. Hurst has taken 83 hail reports within five miles since 2010, but they fell on just 27 distinct storm days, and 31 percent of the reports are crowdsourced entries from a system that did not exist before 2019. In 2024, all 33 of the year's reports came from a single day. So we quote storm days.

That single day was May 27, 2024, and it was severe. A member of the public reported baseball-sized hail in Hurst at 6:24 in the evening, with baseball hail also confirmed in Bedford and Euless within twelve minutes of each other. Eighty-two percent of Hurst's hail falls in April and May. Seven reports within five miles have been two inches or larger since 2010.

Wind here is estimated more often than measured — only three of 38 reports within five miles came from an instrument. The best of those: on March 4, 2025 an amateur radio operator reported a measured 62 mph gust at North East Mall. That same morning, a damage survey six miles out in Haltom City found straight-line winds consistent with 105 mph and several homes with the partial loss of roof decking.

Two other dates matter here. On June 16, 2019, Father's Day, an NWS survey traced enhanced thunderstorm winds through North Richland Hills from Dewsbury Street to Richfield Park, with two homes sustaining significant damage when the wind pushed their garage doors in. And on December 13, 2022, an EF-1 with 90 mph winds developed just west of Davis Boulevard on Sayer Lane, did notable roof damage to businesses along Davis, and crossed Precinct Line just north of Lavaca Trail — Precinct Line being Hurst's main north-south spine.

One last piece of Hurst paperwork worth flagging, because the city's own documents disagree. Its Building Permit Information page says Hurst no longer requires contractors to register annually and that they register through each permit application. Its Contractor Registration Instructions, published January 2026, says the opposite: you must have an approved and active contractor registration before you can submit any permit applications. Registration itself is free, generally issued same day during business hours, requires general liability insurance with no minimum limit and Hurst does not need to be the certificate holder, and it expires whenever the first of your submitted documents expires. We keep ours current under either reading.