On 26 April 2023 a trained spotter measured 4.50-inch hail two miles east of Waco, and softball-size stones fell at Bosqueville near the regional airport. Storms like that do not leave subtle damage — but the eighteen other days in the record with stones of 1.75 inches or more do. Most Waco roof damage is the quiet kind: bruised mat, stripped granules, a creased rake course. It is worth finding before it leaks.
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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. In a city with eighteen days of 1.75-inch-or-larger hail in twenty-six years, that is the most common damage on a Waco roof. We chalk what we find and tie it to a dated event.
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 1950s or 1960s Waco roof it is usually a detail.
Waco logs 56 distinct damaging-wind days against 46 hail days, and the March 2025 event between Robinson and Hewitt produced multiple homes with shingles missing and one roof gone entirely. A shingle that lifted and laid back down has a broken sealant strip and will take the next gust.
Rusted valley metal, face-nailed counterflashing, split pipe boots, chimney pans that were never right. On Waco's older stock these are where the repeat leaks live, and they get replaced with new material rather than sealed over with mastic.
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.
Waco does not permit private haulers to collect from residences. Where a repair generates enough debris to need a container, it comes from the City of Waco and sits on private property, clear of overhead lines. Construction debris also cannot go in a residential cart.
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. Waco's housing is old enough that mat condition usually decides it: over half the city's homes are at least forty-six years old.
Waco carries a dedicated residential roofing permit at $125 on its published fee schedule. Where a repair falls below that we confirm with Inspection Services at (254) 299-2489 rather than deciding for ourselves.
Debris out through the proper route, 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, and on a roof from the 1950s or 1960s build-out the original profile is long gone. We tell you up front whether the patch will blend or read as a patch from the street rather than letting you find out afterwards.
6,829 Waco homes were built before 1950. Those roofs often carry plank decking of varying board width and framing that predates modern fastening standards — a repair there is craft work, and a hail strike can crack a board rather than just bruise a shingle.
Valley metal, counterflashing, drip edge, pipe boots and chimney pans get replaced when they have failed. Sealant is a finish detail on a correctly built joint, never the joint itself.
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.
Don't see your question? Call us at (469) 936-7663 — we're happy to talk it through.
Possibly not, and the April 2023 storm is the reason to check. A trained spotter measured 4.50-inch hail two miles east of Waco that afternoon, with 4.25-inch softball hail at Bosqueville, 2.75-inch at Hallsburg and 1.75-inch on the Baylor campus. Stones that size do obvious damage; the eighteen days in the record with 1.75-inch-or-larger hail often do not. A bruise fractures the mat under an intact surface and leaks years later.
Waco carries a dedicated residential roofing permit at $125 on its published fee schedule, which removes the ambiguity for a covering replacement. Where a small repair falls relative to that line is a question for Inspection Services at (254) 299-2489, and we ask them rather than deciding for ourselves. Failed reinspections escalate at $55, $100 and $150, so getting the paperwork right matters.
Age carries a lot of weight in Waco. Over half the city's housing is at least forty-six years old and 70.6% predates 2000, so mat condition is usually the deciding factor — if lifting one shingle to slide a new one under it breaks the neighbors, a repair keeps growing. The other two tests are decking damage and repeat history. We show you the photographs behind whichever answer we give.
Both, and wind days actually outnumber hail days: 56 distinct damaging-wind days against 46 hail days across 2000 to 2025. The most roof-specific recent event is 4 March 2025 between Robinson and Hewitt, where emergency management reported multiple homes with shingles missing, fences blown over, a collapsed metal barn building, a missing roof and power poles snapped. The strongest measured gust in the record is 77 mph at Waco Regional Airport in July 2010.
April above all — fifteen of the forty-six hail days in the record — with May second at twelve. Waco also has a small autumn and winter tail that catches people out: four hail days in October and three in December across the same twenty-six years. If your roof has not been looked at since the last spring, it is worth doing before winter rain finds anything the hail started.
Because Waco's ordinance does not allow a private hauler to collect from a residence — no solid waste permit will be issued for collection or transportation from any residential unit, single-family or multi-family. Where a job needs a container, it comes from the City of Waco, sits on private property on a firm truck-accessible surface clear of overhead lines, and remains city property. Construction debris also cannot go in your residential cart.
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.
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.
Free inspection, honest scope, real warranty. Most service work scheduled within 24–48 hours.
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