One square triggers a permit in Irving — 100 square feet. A patch that needs no permit in Richardson needs one here, and starting without it doubles the fee.
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Finding where water actually enters rather than patching under the stain. On mid-century Irving housing, water tracks along decking and rafters before it drops, often a full slope from the entry point.
The cracked rubber collar on a plumbing vent boot is the most common leak source we find on an Irving house, because it fails years before the shingles around it do. Replaced, not caulked over.
Chimney and wall flashing, step flashing and valley metal — where most roofs actually leak, and where a previous cheap re-roof on a 1950s Northgate house most often reused metal it should have replaced.
Cracked and slipped tile in Cottonwood Valley, Hackberry Creek and Valley Ranch. Genuine tile is repairable by a crew that knows how to walk it and destroyed by one that does not — this is not general roofing work.
Same-day tarping on an active leak across the Irving market, including occupied multi-family where an open roof above a resident is not an overnight option.
With photographs, including the version where we tell you the roof is sound and to call back in a few years. On a 1950s Plymouth Park roof on its fourth covering, a repair is sometimes a paid delay.
From the attic and from the roof. The stain and the hole are regularly several rafter bays and sometimes an entire slope apart, which is why a leak that was already 'fixed' once so often was not.
Irving requires a permit for any roofing project over 100 square feet — smaller than any neighbouring city's threshold. Starting without it adds an investigation fee equal to 100% of the regular fee. On a repair that is real money for a step that takes us an afternoon.
A composition patch and a tile repair are not the same job. On Las Colinas and Valley Ranch property the material and access technique matter more than the leak itself, because getting it wrong breaks more tile than the original problem.
Photographs at the open stage and at completion, debris removed, and a magnet run over the drive and lawn. Repairs are small jobs, which is exactly why they are where corners get cut.
The rubber collar hardens and splits years before the shingles around it wear out, making it the single most frequent leak source on an Irving house of any age.
Chimney and wall flashing, step flashing and valley metal reused during a previous re-roof instead of replaced. On a Plymouth Park or Northgate house re-roofed three times since 1955, this is routine.
Cracked, slipped and broken tile repaired in kind where the profile is still obtainable or can be salvaged. The risk is the access — a crew that does not know how to walk tile will break more than it fixes.
Written, on the repair itself. Small jobs are where warranties usually evaporate, which is why ours is written down on them.
Same-day tarping on an active leak for Irving addresses, including occupied multi-family.
Including the version where the roof is sound and we say so. It costs us the sale and it is why people call us back.
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Almost certainly. Irving requires a permit for any roofing project covering more than one square — 100 square feet. That is the strictest threshold among Irving's neighbours: Richardson's is 25% of total roof area and Fort Worth requires none at all for shingle-only work. The fee is $100 for single-family.
Irving adds an investigation fee of 100% of the regular fee, so a $100 single-family permit becomes $200. On a repair that is real money for a step that costs us an afternoon to do properly. Note also that there is no $2,000 job-value threshold here — that is a different city's rule.
Almost never in the middle of the field. In order of how often we find them: cracked pipe boots, chimney and wall flashing, valley metal, roof-to-wall transitions and vent penetrations. The rubber collar on a plumbing boot in particular hardens and splits years before the shingles around it wear out.
Often not. Water runs along the underside of the decking, down rafters and along ductwork before it finds somewhere to drop, so the entry point can be several rafter bays or a whole slope away. Tracing it from the attic is what makes a repair hold.
Yes, and in Las Colinas, Valley Ranch and Cottonwood Valley that is a common question. Cracked and slipped tile is repairable in kind where the profile is still obtainable or can be salvaged from an inconspicuous area. The genuine risk is access — a crew that does not know how to walk a tile roof will break more than it fixes, which is why this is not general roofing work.
It depends on remaining roof life, not the size of the leak. Plymouth Park, Northgate and Freeway Park are 1953 to 1966 housing, frequently on a third or fourth covering — repairing one of those buys a delay rather than a fix. Valley Ranch and the Hackberry Creek communities from the 1980s and 90s are a different conversation. We give you the answer in writing with photographs.
Irving is entirely in Dallas County, which logged 202 hail reports across 66 distinct hail days from 2015 to 2025 — eighth in Texas by hail days. April is the peak with a real secondary September cluster, and the largest stone in the window was 4.00 inches at Cedar Hill in June 2023.
No — including the version where we look, find nothing wrong, and tell you to call us in a few years. A company that has never once given a homeowner that answer is not inspecting roofs, it is prospecting them.
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