There is no such thing as a repair too small to permit in McKinney. "Permits are required for all roofing projects" — no square footage minimum, no percentage threshold, $200 flat.
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Finding where water actually enters rather than patching under the stain. Water tracks along decking, rafters and ductwork before it drops, so the entry point and the ceiling stain are frequently on different slopes.
The cracked rubber collar on a plumbing vent boot is the most common leak source we find on a McKinney house, because the collar fails years before the shingles around it do. Replaced, not caulked.
Chimney and wall flashing, step flashing, valley metal — and drip edge, which McKinney requires on all asphalt shingled projects and which a previous cheap re-roof may simply have left off.
On a newer McKinney house, storm damage rather than age is almost always the reason. Mat fracture from hail and creasing from wind are both invisible from the ground and both shorten a roof's life by years before they ever leak.
Same-day tarping on an active leak. McKinney is a straight run up 75 from our yard at 601 N 1st Street in Garland.
With photographs, and including the version where we tell you the roof is sound and to call back in a few years. On a 2007-vintage McKinney roof that answer is frequently the right one.
From the attic and from the roof. The stain and the hole are regularly several rafter bays and sometimes a whole slope apart, which is why a leak that was already 'repaired' once often was not.
McKinney's rule has no threshold at all — permits are required for all roofing projects, at a $200 flat charge. We pull it. A contractor who tells you your repair is too small to need one is telling you they have not read the city's requirements.
Inside the "H" Historic Overlay, an in-kind repair is exempt from Certificate of Appropriateness review. A material change on a street-visible elevation is not, and needs a CoA approved first — about ten to thirty days. On a repair that distinction decides whether you start this week.
Before-and-after photographs, debris removed, and a magnet run over the drive and lawn. In a city with no roofing contractor registration, your photo file is the only durable record of what was actually done.
The rubber collar on a plumbing vent boot hardens and splits years before the shingles around it wear out, making it the single most frequent leak source on a McKinney house of any age.
McKinney requires drip edge on all asphalt shingled projects, but a previous cheap re-roof may have left it off — and an eave without it lets water track back onto the fascia and deck edge. It is one of the first things we look for on an older repair call.
Fractured mats from hail and creased, lifted shingles from wind. Both need somebody on the roof to find, and both matter most in the March-to-May window that carries roughly three quarters of Collin County's hail.
Written, on the repair itself. Small jobs are where warranties usually evaporate — which is exactly why ours is written down on them.
Same-day tarping on an active leak for McKinney addresses, straight up 75 from our Garland yard.
Including the version where the roof is fine and we say so. On McKinney's young housing stock that is frequently the correct answer, and it costs us the sale.
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Yes. McKinney's rule is unqualified: permits are required for all roofing projects. There is no square-footage minimum and no percentage-of-roof-area threshold the way some neighbouring cities have. The fee is a $200 flat charge. If a contractor tells you your repair is too small to need one, they have not read the city's requirements.
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 missing or damaged drip edge. 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 an entire slope away. Tracing it from the attic is what makes a repair hold — and not tracing it is why some leaks get repaired twice.
In McKinney, frequently. The median build year here is 2007, so age is rarely the driver — storms are. On 25 May 2024 shingle damage was recorded through Trinity Falls specifically, and Collin County logged 17 days of two-inch-plus hail between 2015 and 2025. Hail that size fractures the mat beneath the granules without leaving anything visible from the ground.
It is both a code issue and a practical one. McKinney requires drip edge on all asphalt shingled roofing projects, so a roof installed without it was not built to the city's requirement. Practically, an eave without drip edge lets water track back under the shingle onto the fascia and the deck edge, which rots both slowly and expensively. It is one of the first things we check on a repair call.
Not for an in-kind repair — putting the same material back is exempt from Certificate of Appropriateness review in McKinney's "H" Historic Overlay. A material change on a street-visible elevation does need a CoA approved first, which typically runs ten to thirty days. We establish which applies before promising you a start date.
It depends on remaining roof life rather than the size of the leak. On McKinney's young stock the answer is usually repair, and we will say so. On an older roof in Eldorado, Quail Creek, Timber Creek or the original town grid the calculation changes. Either way you get the answer in writing with photographs.
No — and that includes the version where we look, find nothing wrong, and tell you to call us in a few years. On a city as young as McKinney that is a frequent and honest outcome. A company that has never once given a homeowner that answer is not inspecting roofs, it is prospecting them.
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