Sherman has two ordinances that change how a commercial re-roof is actually run, and most out-of-town roofers find out about them the hard way. City trash dumpsters must be used for construction debris — no third-party roll-off companies are permitted. And the City registers the trucks: make, model and registration number of every vehicle used to remove and dispose of construction debris go on file before a permit issues. We are registered in Sherman and we plan the debris side of a tear-off before we price it.
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Mechanically attached or fully adhered over the existing assembly or a full tear-off, depending on what the deck and the insulation are actually doing. We cut test squares and show you the moisture we find rather than quoting a recover over a wet roof and calling it savings.
Two-ply mod-bit is still the right answer on a lot of Sherman's older commercial stock, particularly where there is heavy foot traffic, a lot of rooftop equipment, or a history of puncture. Torch, cold-applied or self-adhered depending on what is under it and what is occupied below.
Sherman's warehouse, light-industrial and agricultural buildings are largely metal. We do panel replacement, retrofit framing over a failed metal roof, and the fastener-and-closure work that is usually what is actually leaking.
This is not a footnote in Sherman — it is the schedule. Construction debris has to go into City containers, our debris vehicles have to be registered with the City by make, model and registration number under Sec. 3.01.003(c)(4), and container placement has to be sequenced with the tear-off so a loaded container is not sitting on your parking lot over a weekend.
Sherman Sec. 3.01.004(b)(4): all buildings over 5,000 square feet, commercial or residential, must be designed, signed and sealed by a licensed architect or professional engineer. On a structural re-deck, a new equipment curb, or an assembly change that alters load, we bring the engineer in rather than hope the inspector does not ask.
Schools, medical offices, churches, restaurants — we phase the work so the tenant keeps operating and nothing is left open overnight. Sherman's noise ordinance permits Monday–Friday 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., Saturday 8 to 5, and Sunday 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., which gives real scheduling room after a storm.
Core cuts, a walk of every penetration and curb, drainage check, and photographs of the whole field. On a commercial roof the question is never only 'is it leaking' — it is how much wet insulation you are already paying to heat and cool.
Recover versus tear-off, membrane type, insulation R-value and thickness, tapered versus flat. You get the reason for each choice and what the cheaper option actually costs you over ten years.
Our Sherman roofing-contractor registration and the $300,000 certificate of insurance naming the City of Sherman as certificate holder are already on file, and registration renews every 31 December. We pull the $75 permit, book the City containers, and give you a written debris and access plan before mobilization.
Daily dry-in, no open deck overnight, and a closeout package with warranty registration, the permit, photographs and the manufacturer documentation. Sherman permits expire if no inspection has occurred in six months, so inspections get scheduled, not assumed.
Heat-welded seams, a white reflective surface that matters in a North Texas summer, and a straightforward repair path. TPO is the volume choice; PVC earns its premium where there is grease exhaust, chemical discharge or a restaurant kitchen below.
Multi-ply asphaltic systems remain the toughest thing you can put on a roof that gets walked on constantly. Granulated cap sheets take abuse that a single-ply will not, and the redundancy of a two-ply system is real insurance on an old deck.
Grayson County has a great deal of metal-clad commercial and agricultural building, and most of it leaks at the fastener, the closure or the eave — not through the panel. We fix the detail where the detail is the problem and re-panel where it is not.
Five years on our labor on a full commercial system, written and specific. On a repair or a partial scope the term is shorter and it says so on the contract — we do not blur the two.
Where the building and the scope qualify, single-ply manufacturers offer no-dollar-limit system warranties of 15, 20 or more years. Those require a certified installer and a manufacturer field inspection; we tell you up front whether your roof qualifies and what it costs to get there.
Permit, warranty registrations, product data, core-cut and moisture findings, and photographs of the completed assembly. Your facilities file, your insurer's file, and the next owner's due diligence all come from it.
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Yes, with no threshold at all. 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 says permits are required for the reconstruction of any residential or commercial roofs. There is no square-foot trigger and no small-repair carve-out anywhere in Chapter 3. The fee is $75.00 flat under Appendix C — the same for a commercial building as for a single-family house.
Sherman charges $250.00 for inspection of work done prior to permit issuance, on top of the permit fee — so an unpermitted re-roof costs $325 instead of $75. More seriously, Sec. 3.01.003(f) lets the City revoke a contractor's registration for two convictions in a twelve-month period, expressly including convictions for failing to obtain required permits. Sherman can put a roofer out of business in Sherman. That is worth knowing about whoever is bidding against us.
Sherman Sec. 3.01.006(a)(3) reads: city trash dumpsters must be used for disposal of construction materials, no 3rd party trash services are allowed. It is the single most operationally consequential ordinance in Sherman for a tear-off, and it is the one out-of-town contractors most often miss. It affects container availability, staging, and how a large tear-off has to be phased. We plan around it before the bid, not on the morning of.
The 2021 International Building Code and 2021 International Residential Code, along with the 2021 IECC, IMC, IPC, IFGC, IFC, IEBC, IPMC and ISPSC and the 2023 NEC, adopted by Ordinance No. 6691 on 5 February 2024. Grayson County sits in the Texoma Council of Governments region, not NCTCOG, so Sherman does not take the DFW regional amendment package. Sherman's own amendment list at Sec. 3.03.001 runs to exactly nine items — piping, electrical deletion, fire sprinklers, foundation engineering, egress, and a few administrative rules — and not one of them touches roof coverings. Your roof is built to the unmodified IBC and IRC roofing chapters, which is a real difference from a Garland or Plano job.
Sherman requires roofing contractors to register in a dedicated Roofing Contractor category and to file a $300,000.00 certificate of insurance listing the City of Sherman as the certificate holder. Registration itself is free but expires every 31 December on a calendar-year basis, not on an anniversary date, and no permits or inspections are issued for a contractor whose registration has lapsed. Ask any bidder to show you their current Sherman registration — in January, that question separates the field.
More than it used to, and the change is real rather than a reporting artifact. In the NOAA Storm Events record, distinct hail days within ten miles of Sherman ran 1.77 per year in 2000–2012 and 4.29 per year in 2019–2025, while reports per hail day stayed essentially flat at around 2.0 — so this is more separate days being detected, not the same day being reported more times. Grayson County is also hail-dominant where East Texas is wind-dominant: 323 hail events against 228 wind events at the county level. The best professionally observed large hail in the record is 2.50 inches reported by a trained spotter at Luella on 21 September 2025, with $100,000 in property damage.
Yes, and Sherman is unusually permissive about it. Sec. 8.07.003(b)(6) allows construction 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, with a named holiday blackout for New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. There is also a variance the city manager can grant for out-of-hours work where loss or inconvenience would otherwise result. Sunday afternoon work being expressly legal is genuinely useful after a Saturday storm.
Heritage Row covers the 300 through 1300 blocks of South Crockett Street, established by City Council on 3 January 1978. If your building is in it, a Certificate of Appropriateness is required — and note that the standards are triggered by a building being repaired or changed in color, which means a shingle or panel color change is reviewable. Sherman's historic standards regulate roof shape and material compatibility rather than naming specific products. Worth knowing: in March 2025 the Council cut the Historical Preservation Board special-called-meeting application fee from $500.00 to $75.00.
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