Sherman bans third-party dumpsters outright and registers the trucks that haul your tear-off. We work to both rules — most crews from the Metroplex do not know they exist.
Two lines in Sherman’s city code change how a roofing job runs here, and we have not found either one in any other Texas city we work in.
The first is Section 3.01.006(a)(3): “City trash dumpsters must be used for disposal of construction materials. No 3rd party trash services are allowed.” That is a hard municipal monopoly on construction debris containers. A Sherman tear-off cannot legally go into a roll-off from an outside company — not ours, not anyone’s. It has to be a city dumpster.
The second is Section 3.01.003(c)(4), which requires a contractor registering with the city to supply the “make, model, and registration number on all vehicles used in the removal and disposal of construction debris.” Sherman registers the trucks, not just the company. Our dump trailer is on file with the city before a permit issues.
Both of those exist because Sherman is a city that decided to get serious about construction oversight, and the timing is not accidental: the current code, Ordinance 6691, was adopted on February 5, 2024, in the middle of the largest industrial build-out in the city’s history.
The code itself holds a second surprise. Grayson County is in the Texoma Council of Governments region, not the North Central Texas Council of Governments that covers Dallas and Fort Worth. We read Sherman’s full amendment list — nine items covering PVC piping, electrical deletions, fire sprinklers, foundation engineering, egress, storage containers, shear walls and form board surveys. Not one touches the roofing chapter. So in Sherman a roof is built to the 2021 International Residential Code exactly as published, with no regional modification at all. That is a real difference from a Dallas job, where the NCTCOG package applies.
It also means something we will be straight about: Sherman does not publish a filled-in climate design table, so unlike Arlington or Mansfield we cannot quote you a local design wind speed. We ask the building department rather than borrowing a Metroplex number and presenting it as Sherman’s.
The housing is old and it is rented. The median Sherman home was built in 1980, 63.8% of the stock predates 1980, and 39% predates 1960 — a far deeper pre-war tail than the DFW suburbs carry. Owner-occupancy is 52.7%, nearly ten points below the Texas average and the lowest of any city in this region. Almost half the roofs in Sherman belong to a landlord or a property manager.
On weather, Sherman’s signature is that its hail season runs late. The peak month is May — 18 of 61 hail days since 2000 — not April the way Tarrant County does, and there is a genuine autumn tail with four September hail days. The best-documented stone is recent and professional: on September 21, 2025 a trained spotter measured tennis-ball hail, 2.50 inches, at Luella, with $100,000 in damage logged. Tennis-ball hail in September is not what anyone expects here.
The most useful storm detail for a homeowner, though, is a small one. On March 25, 2025, broadcast media at KXII in north Sherman reported “quarter sized hail with a few half dollar sized hail stones mixed in” that “lasted approximately 4 minutes.” Four minutes of quarter-to-half-dollar hail will not break a shingle visibly. It will bruise the mat, and that damage shows up as a shortened roof life two or three years later rather than as a hole you can see from the driveway.
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View Roof Maintenance →Section 3.01.006(a)(3) states that city trash dumpsters must be used for disposal of construction materials and that no third-party trash services are allowed. That is not a preference, it is an ordinance, and it catches out every crew that drives up from the Metroplex with its usual roll-off. We arrange the city container as part of the job.
Sherman has a named roofing contractor registration category and requires a $300,000 certificate of insurance listing the City of Sherman as the certificate holder. Registration is free but expires every December 31 regardless of when it was issued. And Section 3.01.003(c)(4) requires the make, model and registration number of every vehicle used to haul construction debris. Sherman can also revoke a registration outright for two permit violations in twelve months.
A roofing permit is required in Sherman for any residential or commercial re-roofing, with no square-footage threshold and no small-repair exemption. It is $75 flat. If work starts first, the city adds a $250 inspection fee, so an unpermitted re-roof costs $325 instead of $75. We pull it before the truck rolls.
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Yes, always. The city’s Permits Required sheet states that “a roofing permit is required for any residential or non-residential re-roofing,” and the Roofing Permits page repeats it. There is no exemption for small repairs, no square-foot trigger and no carve-out anywhere in Chapter 3. We pull it as part of the job.
$75.00 flat, and remarkably the same $75 applies to single-family, multi-family and commercial alike — a twelve-square ranch house and a hundred-square commercial roof pay identically. If work begins before the permit is issued, the fee schedule adds $250 for inspection of work done prior to permit issuance, taking the total to $325. Sherman also states plainly that there are no refunds on building permit fees.
Yes, and Sherman is more specific than most. Section 3.01.003(b)(7) names roofing contractors directly. Registration is free, but it requires a $300,000 certificate of insurance with the City of Sherman listed as the certificate holder, and it expires every December 31 on a calendar-year basis rather than on the anniversary of signing. Sherman also requires the make, model and registration number of every vehicle used to haul construction debris. And it can revoke a registration for two ordinance convictions in a twelve-month period, including convictions for failing to obtain permits.
Not a private one. Section 3.01.006(a)(3) requires city trash dumpsters for construction material disposal and states that no third-party trash services are allowed. This is the single most operationally consequential rule in Sherman and it is the thing an out-of-town storm crew is most likely to get wrong. The same section also requires construction sites to be kept clean, streets and sidewalks kept clear of debris, and a portable toilet on site.
Genuinely different, yes. Sherman adopted the 2021 International Codes and the 2023 National Electrical Code by Ordinance 6691 on February 5, 2024. Grayson County sits in the Texoma Council of Governments region rather than NCTCOG, so the regional amendment package that Dallas-Fort Worth cities adopt does not apply here. We read Sherman’s full amendment list: nine items, none of which touches roofing. So the IRC roofing chapter applies exactly as the International Code Council published it, with no local modification.
We do not know, and we are not going to borrow a number. Sherman does not publish a filled-in Table R301.2(1), which is the grid where a city states its design wind speed, ice barrier requirement and related criteria. Dallas-area cities publish 115 mph through the regional package; Sherman has no equivalent published value. We ask Development Services rather than assuming Sherman matches the Metroplex, and you should be sceptical of any page that quotes a Sherman wind figure without a source.
Sherman is unusual in expressly permitting Sunday work, within limits. Section 8.07.003(b)(6) allows construction in residential districts Monday through Friday from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Saturday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and Sunday from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. — excluding New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. That Sunday afternoon window is genuinely useful after a storm, when getting a roof dried in matters more than the calendar.
Later than most people assume. Across 61 distinct hail days since 2000, May is the peak month with 18 of them, against 11 each for March and April. Sherman also carries a real autumn tail — four September hail days, two in November, one in December. The most recent large stone is a good example: on September 21, 2025 a trained spotter measured tennis-ball hail at 2.50 inches in Luella, with $100,000 in damage. If you only inspect your roof in the spring here, you are missing half the season.
Seven tracks have passed within ten miles since 2000. The most damaging was on April 26, 2016 at Howe, just south of the city limits, where the National Weather Service found EF0 and EF1 damage to homes, businesses and a school and recorded that the tornado “damaged approximately 20 homes, causing widespread roof, fence, and vehicle damage,” injuring five people. More recently, on June 8, 2025 an EF1 four hundred yards wide crossed Farmington Road and blew a trailer onto its side in the western parking lot of the Texas Instruments plant. Grayson County has seen worse further out — the 2022 Cedar Mills EF2 damaged 105 structures and destroyed 53, about eighteen miles from town.
A great deal of our Sherman work is exactly that. Owner-occupancy here is 52.7%, the lowest in this region and nearly ten points under the Texas average, so close to half the roofs belong to someone who does not live under them. Sherman also runs a residential rental property licence at $10 per unit per year, which means the city keeps a list. We handle multi-property scheduling, give repair-versus-replace numbers with the arithmetic shown, and document everything for your files.
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