Katy is not hail alley and we are not going to pretend it is. Harris County logged 50 distinct hail days across eleven years and Fort Bend County just twelve — against ninety-one for Tarrant County up in Dallas–Fort Worth. What Katy gets is wind and water, with a genuine cold-season tail: there are January hail reports in the record and one on Christmas Eve 2024. That shapes what we look for on a repair, and it shapes what we will not claim on a roof that does not have it.
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Water gets in one place and shows up somewhere else. We work backwards from the stain through penetrations, valley terminations, step flashing, wall tie-ins and nail pops before anyone suggests tearing anything off. In a wind-and-water market that is where the failures actually are.
A shingle that lifted and laid back down has a broken sealant strip and will take the next gust. Harris County logged 191 thunderstorm-wind reports and 38 tornadoes across eleven years — the most tornadoes of any county in our comparison. We check the rake and ridge lines by hand and mark what we find.
Hail here is real but infrequent. We chalk what we find and tie it to a dated event where one exists — 9 May 2019, 5 April 2023, 18 and 19 April 2020 are the anchor dates within fifteen miles of Katy — and we say plainly when we cannot connect your damage to a storm.
On the production roofs that dominate the Katy area, the plumbing vent boot usually fails well before the shingles do. A whole-roof penetration audit and a set of new boots often buys years on a sound roof for a fraction of a replacement.
Inside the City of Katy, a roofing contractor must register with the city before performing any work — the ordinance names roofing contractor as its own class and makes working unregistered unlawful. Ours is current, with the $300,000 liability cover naming the city as certificate holder. Outside the limits nobody checks, which is exactly why it is worth asking.
Dated photographs, a written scope in the order the work has to happen, and the storm date where one can be established. That file is yours whether you use us for the repair or not. We do not file your claim and we do not tell you what your policy owes.
We photograph the damage, the visible deck condition and the areas that are fine — that last part is what keeps a repair a repair, and it is what most estimates leave out.
Repair, partial or replacement, with the reason for each. About four in five homes inside the city limits were built since 1980 and 40% since 2010, so a repair is more often the right answer here than the industry average suggests.
Inside the city limits Katy requires a permit for the re-roof of any residential structure with no size threshold, so we confirm with the city whether your repair reaches that. Outside the limits there is no county roofing permit and we will not invent one.
Debris out in a permitted container where the city requires one, magnet sweep of the drive and beds, and a walk of the finished work with you. If the repair ties to a storm date, the closing photographs go into your file.
Katy's advantage on repairs is that most roofs here are recent enough that the shingle line is still in production, which makes a genuinely well-matched repair achievable. Community covenants often specify an approved color list too, and we check it before ordering.
Plumbing vent boots, turbine and box vent flashings and step flashing at wall tie-ins are where production roofs leak first. Correcting all of them rather than only the one that leaked is usually the highest-value repair on the roof.
Valley metal, counterflashing, drip edge and chimney pans get replaced when they have failed. Sealant is a finish detail on a correctly built joint, never the joint itself — a bead of mastic buys one Gulf Coast summer.
Our labor on the area we repaired. If it leaks, we come back. That is the whole of it, and it is in writing before you sign anything.
Any shingle, underlayment or metal we install carries its own manufacturer warranty. We hand you the documentation rather than restating the manufacturer's terms as if they were ours.
Every repair leaves with a written scope of what was replaced and what was deliberately left alone. Outside the city limits, where nothing is inspected, that document is the record.
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Inside the city limits, possibly — Katy requires a permit for the re-roof of any residential structure and states no square-footage or percentage threshold, so we confirm with the city where your specific scope falls. Outside the limits, in unincorporated Harris or Fort Bend County, there is no roofing permit at all: Harris County's complete permit catalog contains no roofing type and a re-roof is not among Fort Bend County's published permit triggers.
In Katy, statistically wind. Harris County logged 191 thunderstorm-wind reports and 38 tornadoes across 2015 to 2025 — the most tornadoes of any county we compare — against 50 hail days, and Fort Bend County only 12 hail days. Wind damage reads differently from hail: creased and lifted tabs along the rake and ridge, torn ridge cap, shingles missing in a line. It also dates to a specific storm, which matters for a claim.
April and May, with a real winter tail that surprises people. Across Harris County's 157 hail reports from 2015 to 2025, April accounts for 46 and May for 44, with March at 27 and June at 21 — but there are also eight January reports and five in December. The Katy-area record includes a Christmas Eve 2024 hail report near Cypress and a January 2018 report near Howellville. So an inspection after a winter storm is not a wasted trip here.
In Katy a repair is more often right than the industry average suggests, because the housing is relatively young — 40% of the units inside the city limits were built in 2010 or later and the median home dates to 2003. The deciding factors are mat condition, whether decking took a hit, and whether a storm did something across the whole field rather than at one detail. We show you the photographs behind whichever answer we give.
Inside the city limits, thoroughly. Katy's ordinance names roofing contractor as its own registration class and makes it unlawful to engage in business as a contractor in the city without registering first. Registration requires $300,000 general comprehensive liability with the city as certificate holder, liability insurance on every vehicle used in the business, and the applicant's original driver's license for copying. Outside the limits nobody checks anything, which is why we bring a certificate to the first visit either way.
Get everyone out from under the opening, cut power to the area if water is near wiring, and call for a dry-in. We do not cut trees off structures — that is a tree service with proper rigging, and doing it badly turns a roof repair into a framing rebuild. We tarp what can safely be tarped, photograph everything for your file, and scope the permanent repair once the limb is clear.
Inside the city limits it needs a permit — Katy charges $10 per container and $50 per truck, and requires a separate permit before placing a container on someone else's premises. The city does not hold an exclusive franchise, so there is a choice of hauler, but the paperwork is real and we handle it. Outside the limits there is no municipal franchise, though your association or municipal utility district may still have rules about placement and duration.
We document thoroughly — dated photographs, a written scope, and the storm date where one can be established — and we will be on the roof while your adjuster is, so you are both looking at the same damage at the same time. We do not file the claim, negotiate with your carrier or tell you what your policy owes. That is between you and your adjuster, and a roofer who says otherwise is doing you no favors.
Free inspection, honest scope, real warranty. Most service work scheduled within 24–48 hours.
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