Roof Experts works across Rowlett, from the Waterview golf neighborhoods to the bluff streets above Lake Ray Hubbard. Rowlett is a wind town more than a hail town, and that changes what we look for on a roof.
Rowlett sits on the western shore of Lake Ray Hubbard, split between Dallas and Rockwall counties, with the President George Bush Turnpike running straight through the middle. Our office is eight miles west in Garland, so Rowlett is a short drive rather than a service area on a map.
Most roofing companies sell Rowlett the same hail story they sell every DFW suburb. The record does not support it. NOAA has logged 18 confirmed hail reports inside Rowlett since 2010, and twelve of those were one inch — marginal, quarter-size stones. What Rowlett has actually had is wind. The December 26, 2015 tornado came in off Windjammer Way at 170 to 180 mph and ran 13 miles with a path up to 550 yards wide. The city issued roughly 1,800 rebuild permits and $47 million in reconstruction value afterward. Four years later, on October 20, 2019, an EF1 crossed the city again — the National Weather Service survey describes roofs damaged along Larkin Lane, a home in the 4600 block of Hilcox Road that lost most of its roof, and shingles stripped from houses and barns east of the turnpike.
Wind damage does not look like hail damage. Hail bruises the mat across the whole slope. Wind lifts and creases shingles along rakes, ridges and the windward edge, backs out fasteners, and opens seams you cannot see from the driveway. If an adjuster walked your Rowlett roof looking only for hail hits, it is worth a second set of eyes. We inspect for free and we will tell you when there is nothing there.
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View Roof Maintenance →NOAA has logged 18 hail reports inside Rowlett since 2010 and only one reached two inches. Over the same stretch the city took an EF4, an EF2 and an EF1. We inspect Rowlett roofs for lifted shingles, creased tabs, backed-out fasteners and opened seams first, and hail bruising second — which is the opposite of how most crews work a DFW suburb.
After the 2015 tornado, APA's forensic engineers walked Rowlett and Garland and found most rafters toenailed into the top plate, with proper metal connectors present in only one of the homes that lost its roof structure. They also found that a lost garage door or window pressurizes the house and takes the roof off from the inside. It is why we look at more than the shingles.
Rowlett requires a permit for every new roof — $60 residential, $80 commercial — and every contractor has to be registered with Community Development before starting. Texas Business and Commerce Code Chapter 58 also bars disaster contractors from taking your money up front unless they have held a local address for a year. Ours has been at 601 N 1st Street in Garland, in the same county, since 2019.
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Less than most of DFW, and you should be skeptical of anyone who tells you otherwise. NOAA's Storm Events database has 18 confirmed hail reports inside Rowlett since 2010 across ten separate days, and twelve of them were one inch. The largest on record in the city is two inches, on April 27, 2026. For comparison, Allen and Frisco have taken four to six times as many large-hail reports in the same window. Rowlett's real exposure is wind.
Not yet on age alone — a 2016 replacement is about ten years old. But that rebuild happened in a rush. Rowlett issued around 1,800 permits in a matter of months and crews came in from everywhere. We find shortcuts from that period regularly: reused flashing, short nailing, decking left in place that should have come off. A free inspection tells you which kind of rebuild you got.
Yes. The city is explicit that a permit is required when installing a new roof, and a separate electrical permit is needed if solar panels have to come off and go back on. Your roofer should pull it, and they have to be registered with the city first. Inspections must be requested by 3:00 p.m. for next-day service. We handle all of it.
Sometimes, but usually it is a bad idea and often it is not allowed. Rowlett follows the 2021 IRC without amending the reroofing section, so a recover is prohibited if the existing roof is water-soaked or deteriorated, if it is slate or tile, or if there are already two layers up there. Even where it is legal, a layover hides the decking — and on a wind-damaged Rowlett roof the decking is exactly what we need to see.
No. Rowlett's adopted design criteria list ice barrier underlayment as not required, with a 5 pound ground snow load and a 115 mph design wind speed. The whole code envelope here is built around wind, not ice. We still use ice and water shield in valleys and at penetrations because it is good practice, but nobody should sell it to you in Rowlett as a code requirement.
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