The biggest hailstone in eleven years of Harris County records fell just south of Tomball. On 19 April 2015 the National Weather Service logged baseball-size hail — 2.75 inches — near Highway 249 and Boudreaux Road, with hen-egg hail at two inches reported in Tomball itself the same day. A stone that size does obvious damage. What it also does, across a much wider area, is bruise mats and strip granules in ways nobody sees from the driveway for years.
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A bruise fractures the shingle mat under a surface that still looks intact and shows up as a leak years later. Tomball has taken two-inch hail in the city and baseball-size just outside it. We chalk what we find so you can see the pattern and we tie it to a dated event in the county record.
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 the Old Town stock especially, the answer is usually a detail.
Split pipe boots, rusted valley metal, face-nailed counterflashing, chimney pans that were never right. These get replaced with new material rather than sealed over. Tomball's own design table rates termite damage risk very heavy and decay slight to moderate, so fascia and edge conditions get a proper look too.
A shingle that lifted and laid back down has a broken sealant strip and will take the next gust. We check the rake and ridge lines by hand and refasten the repair area to the city's 110 mph design figure and the manufacturer's high-wind schedule, whichever is stricter.
Tomball requires whoever actually performs permitted work to file a liability certificate with the city for the duration of the permit. Ours is there. We confirm with the Building Division whether your specific repair reaches the permit threshold rather than assuming either way.
Dated photographs, a written scope in the order the work has to happen, and the storm date it ties to. That file is yours whether you use us for the repair or not. We do not file your claim and we do not tell you what your policy owes.
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. In Tomball the answer depends heavily on which cohort your house is in: a 1985 roof on its third covering and a 2006 roof on its first are different conversations entirely.
Tomball publishes a dedicated residential roofing permit at $75.00 for a re-roof. A small repair may sit below that, and we confirm with the Building Division rather than guessing — the fee doubles for work commenced without a permit and the municipal court fine list carries $281 for the ordinance violation.
Debris out by the proper route under the city's collection rules, 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 of an asphalt repair is the match. On a roof from the 1980s peak the original profile is long discontinued; on a 2006 roof it often is not. We tell you up front which situation you are in rather than letting you find out from the street.
Plumbing vent boots, turbine and box vent flashings and step flashing at wall tie-ins fail long before the field does. Correcting all of them rather than only the one that leaked is usually the highest-value repair on the roof.
699 Tomball homes date to 1949 or earlier. Those roofs are cut up and steep, with original decking of varying board width and flashing details that were never standard. A repair there is craft work, not a patch.
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. If a second opinion disagrees with us later, you have the document to argue from.
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Tomball publishes a dedicated residential roofing permit at $75.00 for a re-roof, which puts the requirement for a covering replacement beyond doubt. Whether a small repair reaches that threshold is a question for the Building Division, and we ask them rather than assume. It matters because both the ordinance and the fee schedule double the fee for work commenced without a permit, and the municipal court fine list carries $281.00 for the ordinance violation.
Not in Tomball. The city's completed design-criteria table answers Ice Shield Underlay Required with a plain No. We use self-adhering membrane at valleys, eaves and penetrations as a matter of good practice, and we will happily install it — but as an upgrade, not as a code requirement. If a quote you are comparing calls it mandatory here, that tells you something about how carefully the rest of it was written.
Three things decide it. Mat condition — if lifting one shingle to slide a new one under it breaks the neighbors, a repair keeps growing. Decking — if something came through, that has to be right regardless. And age, which in Tomball splits the town in two: 44% of homes were built in 1989 or earlier and are on a third covering, while the 806 built between 2000 and 2009 are only now reaching their first replacement window. We show you the photographs behind whichever answer we give.
Enough that the area holds the county record. Baseball-size hail at 2.75 inches fell near Highway 249 and Boudreaux Road just south of town on 19 April 2015 — the largest stone in the eleven-year Harris County record — with hen-egg hail at two inches reported in Tomball the same day and another 1.75-inch report in April 2020. County-wide there are about 4.5 hail days a year, concentrated hard in April and May, which together account for 57% of all reports.
If it has been through 2015, 2019, 2023 or 2024, yes. Harris County logged eight hail days in 2023 and nine in 2024, and the damage that matters most from an inch or two of hail is bruised mat and stripped granules — invisible from the driveway and slow to leak. An inspection costs you a morning; a failure two winters from now costs considerably more.
Get everyone out from under the opening, cut power to the area if water is near wiring, and call for a dry-in. 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. We tarp what can safely be tarped, photograph everything for your file, and scope the permanent repair once the limb is clear.
Yes, and that is Tomball's approach instead of contractor registration. The code requires the person or entity that will actually perform the permitted work to file evidence of comprehensive general liability insurance from a Texas-admitted carrier for the duration of the permit, with thirty days' advance notice of any cancellation. An uninsured crew cannot get the permit issued, which is a real protection for a homeowner.
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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