Inside the City of Richmond, 2,356 homes — nearly half the city — were built before 1980, and only six housing units have been added since 2020. That is a genuinely old, slow-turnover market where a replacement is overdue rather than optional, and where almost half the occupied homes are rentals. It is also a city that has just added contractor registration to its building code and runs the newest code family in this part of Fort Bend County.
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Everything comes off. On a 1968 or 1975 Richmond house that has been re-roofed twice, the deck has not been seen since the house was framed. 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.
The City of Richmond has adopted the 2024 International Residential and Building Codes with the 2024 companion codes and the 2023 National Electrical Code — the newest family in this part of the county. Outside the city limits no residential building code applies at all, and we build to the same standard anyway.
Richmond amended its building code to add contractor registration. We confirm the current terms, the permit requirement and the fee with the building department at (281) 342-5456 rather than publishing figures we cannot source — and we bring a current certificate of liability insurance regardless.
Self-adhering membrane at valleys and every penetration, synthetic underlayment across the field, all new metal, and ventilation calculated rather than inherited. On a pre-1980 Richmond roof the ventilation was rarely adequate to begin with.
Beds, AC units and drives covered before the first shingle moves, the tear-off hauled to a private construction and demolition facility rather than your curb, and two magnet sweeps of the drive, yard and street at the end.
Inside the city or in unincorporated county, then squares, pitch, penetration count, visible deck condition and the ventilation the roof actually has against what it needs.
Shingle line, starter, ridge, underlayment, ventilation and metal, line-itemed so you can see what each choice costs. In the historic core we confirm with the city whether a designation applies before material is ordered.
We call the building department, confirm the permit requirement and the current fee schedule, and confirm the registration terms rather than assuming they match another city's. Outside the limits there is nothing to pull and we say so plainly.
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, and a walk-through with you, plus the photographic record.
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.
Nearly half the occupied homes inside the city are rentals, and a landlord's arithmetic is different from an owner-occupier's. We quote the roof that gives the best service life per dollar and say plainly where spending more does and does not pay back over a hold period.
634 homes inside the city date to the 1960s and 1,130 to the 1970s. Those roofs are cut up and often carry low-slope porch runs that keep failing in asphalt. Metal solves those sections; designer profiles suit the visible ones.
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 any permit. On a rental it is the property file; on a home it is what a buyer's inspector asks for; outside the city limits it is the only inspection record there will ever be.
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Inside the city limits, very likely. The median home there was built in 1984, 2,356 houses — 46.5% of the city — predate 1980, and 634 date to the 1960s. On a twenty-to-twenty-five-year asphalt cycle those roofs are on a third covering. Only six housing units have been added inside the city since 2020, so this is a slow-turnover market of long-held homes and rentals rather than new construction. Outside the limits, in the master-planned communities, the answer is usually no.
Inside the City of Richmond, we confirm with the building department at (281) 342-5456 — the city runs a real building department on the 2024 codes and has added contractor registration to its building code. Outside the limits, in unincorporated Fort Bend County, the county has not adopted building codes for single-family residential construction, so there is no roofing permit and no inspection. Most Richmond-addressed homes are in the second category.
We will not publish a figure we cannot source. The city's building department references a fee schedule we could not retrieve, and a web search for a Richmond fee schedule surfaces documents from Richmond, Virginia and other places entirely — which we did not use. We call the department, get the real number, and put that on your contract.
Inside the city, the 2024 International Residential Code along with the 2024 building, plumbing, mechanical, energy, fuel gas and fire codes and the 2023 National Electrical Code. That is the newest code family in this part of Fort Bend County — Fulshear, for comparison, is still on the 2015 editions. Outside the city limits no residential building code applies, and we build to the same standard voluntarily because that is what a roof should be.
Honestly, and with the hold period in mind. Almost half the occupied homes inside the city are rentals, so this is a normal conversation for us rather than an exception. We survey the properties, rank them by remaining service life rather than by which tenant complained loudest, and give you a phased plan with line-item costs. Where a repair buys three more years for a tenth of the money, we will say so.
Possibly two previous roofs, decking nobody has examined since the house was framed, and ventilation that was inadequate from the start. 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.
It can, and we check rather than assume. Richmond is one of Texas's oldest towns and has a genuine historic core, though we could not verify the name, boundaries or designation status of a local district from published sources. The reason it matters is specific: Texas law generally limits how far a city may restrict code-approved roofing materials, but it expressly exempts historically designated buildings and districts from that limit.
Most single-family tear-offs are one day, occasionally two on a steep cut-up roof or where decking replacement runs heavy — which on a pre-1980 Richmond house it often does. Outside the city limits there is no permit wait at all; inside them the permit is straightforward once the registration is in order.
Free inspection, honest scope, real warranty. Most service work scheduled within 24–48 hours.
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