The Woodlands was built around its trees, and the storm record reads accordingly. The National Weather Service narratives here are not about hail — they are about an oak on a home in Harper's Landing, three large oaks uprooted onto houses with one cutting a home in half, and large pines downed onto homes near Spring. A tree strike is a deck and framing repair, not a shingle repair, and the difference decides whether a job is done right.
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The defining local damage mechanism. A pine or an oak through the deck is a framing repair before it is a roofing repair — we open the affected bays, replace broken rafters and decking, and rebuild the assembly rather than shingling over a cracked substrate.
Water gets in one place and shows up somewhere else. We work backwards from the stain through penetrations, valley terminations, step flashing, wall tie-ins and nail pops before anyone suggests tearing anything off. On a 1990s Woodlands roof it is usually a detail.
The workhorse hail size here is one inch to one and three-quarter inches — enough to bruise and strip granules from an aging asphalt roof, not enough to be dramatic. That is exactly the damage pattern that gets missed. We chalk what we find and tie it to a dated event.
Split pipe boots, rusted valley metal, face-nailed counterflashing. These get replaced with new material rather than sealed over. Where accessories are replaced, we match them to the roofing color, as the covenant standards require.
The covenants allow emergency repairs to temporarily prevent property loss, damage or bodily injury without application, review or prior inspection. We tarp and dry in first, you notify the Township within five working days, and the permanent repair goes through the standards after.
Montgomery County does not inspect residential roofs and the Township reviews appearance rather than workmanship. Dated photographs and a written scope are the only record that will exist. That file is yours whether you use us or not.
We photograph the damage, the visible deck condition and the areas that are fine — that last part is what keeps a repair a repair, and it is what most estimates leave out.
Repair, partial or replacement, with the reason for each. After a tree strike the first question is structural: did anything crack. After hail it is mat condition. We show you the photographs behind whichever answer we give.
Emergency stabilization needs no approval. A permanent repair is treated as remodeling work under the standards, and the minor-repair exemption expressly excludes roofing — so we file the application rather than quietly skipping it. The Township acts within 45 days of a completed application.
Debris hauled, magnet sweep of the drive and beds, and a walk of the finished work with you. If the repair ties to a storm date, the closing photographs go into your file.
The hard part is the match, and here it is doubly so — the covenant standards require muted, unpatterned colors, so the replacement has to satisfy both the roof and the committee. We tell you up front whether the patch will blend or read as a patch from the street.
A pine through the roof breaks rafters as often as sheathing. We open it up, sister or replace what is cracked, and photograph the structure before it is closed — because nobody from the county is coming to look at it.
Valley metal, counterflashing, drip edge, pipe boots and chimney pans get replaced when they have failed. Exposed accessories are matched to the roofing color as the standards require.
Our labor on the area we repaired. If it leaks, we come back. That is the whole of it, and it is in writing before you sign anything.
Any shingle, underlayment or metal we install carries its own manufacturer warranty. We hand you the documentation rather than restating the manufacturer's terms as if they were ours.
Every repair leaves with a written scope of what was replaced and what was deliberately left alone. In a community with no municipal inspection, that document is the record.
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Get everyone out from under the opening, cut power to the area if water is near wiring, and call for a dry-in. Under the covenants, emergency repairs to temporarily prevent property loss, damage or bodily injury may be made without application, review or prior inspection — so nobody has to wait for a committee to make the house safe. Notify the Township of casualty damage within five working days on 281-210-3800. We do not cut trees off structures; that is a tree service with proper rigging, and doing it badly turns a roof repair into a framing rebuild.
For a permanent repair, yes. The standards treat permanent repairs as remodeling work that must comply like any other alteration, and the minor-repair exemption expressly names roofing as excluded — roofing requires a permit at the time of repair or replacement. Emergency stabilization does not. We file the application rather than gambling on nobody noticing, because covenant enforcement here is contractual and it does get enforced.
No. Montgomery County states that building codes are not enforced for single-family residential structures, its permitting FAQ says residential properties do not require a roofing permit, and there are no final inspections on residential construction outside the floodplain. The Township reviews materials and appearance, not nailing patterns. Nobody is checking the workmanship except you and whoever you hire, which is exactly why we photograph the open deck and hand you the file.
Three things decide it. Structural damage — if a tree cracked decking or a rafter, that has to be right regardless of the shingle. Mat condition — if lifting one shingle breaks its neighbors, a repair keeps growing. And age — half of The Woodlands is 25 years old or more, and a roof that has already reached its service life is a poor candidate for another patch. We show you the photographs and let you decide.
Frequent but moderate. The record shows 42 distinct hail days within ten miles across twenty-six years, and in that entire period exactly one three-inch stone — on 4 May 2006. The workhorse size here runs one inch to one and three-quarter inches, which is enough to bruise and strip an aging asphalt roof without being obvious from the ground. That is the damage pattern most commonly missed, and it is worth an inspection after a storm even when nothing looks wrong.
Real, and occasionally severe. The strongest gust in the record is a measured 82 mph near Spring on 21 June 2023, in a storm whose narrative reads: several large pine trees downed onto homes and numerous fences downed. On 24 November 2025 an EF2 tornado tracked through Spring-area subdivisions with the survey noting large sections of missing roof decking. And a Mesonet station near The Woodlands measured a 58 mph non-thunderstorm gust in March 2025 — the wind here is not only a summer problem.
Usually, with a caveat particular to this community. Granule color drifts as a line ages and profiles get discontinued, so an exact match is not always possible. On top of that, the standards require roofing colors to be muted and without pattern, so the replacement has to satisfy the committee as well as your eye. We tell you before the work whether the repair will blend or show.
We document thoroughly — dated photographs, a written scope, the storm date it ties to — and we will be on the roof while your adjuster is, so you are both looking at the same damage at the same time. We do not file the claim, negotiate with your carrier or tell you what your policy owes. That is between you and your adjuster, and a roofer who says otherwise is doing you no favors.
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