FAQ

Not for asphalt shingle, which is generally rated at 15 to 30 years. In Fulshear, where most houses are still on their builder's roof, a ten-year-old roof that leaks or sheds shingles usually has an installation fault rather than old age: flashing at a wall, a pipe boot, nails set high, too little attic ventilation. Have it read as an installation before anyone prices a replacement.

Texas-wide estimates run from about $6,000 to $20,000, with about $13,000 typical for a 2,000-square-foot roof. Fulshear roofers publish shingle re-roofs at about $8,000 to $20,000, and larger homes in Weston Lakes and Fulbrook run toward the top. Your own figure depends on roof area, shape, layers and decking, so it is a written quote once the roof has been seen.

It depends on the address. Inside Fulshear city limits, building permits come from the City of Fulshear's Development Services, and the quote says whether your job needs one, confirmed with the City. Fulbrook sits outside city limits in the ETJ, where Fort Bend County has no general building code for single-family homes, and Weston Lakes is its own city with its own rules. Your HOA's approval is a separate step either way.

For a shingle re-roof on a typical Fulshear house it is above the $8,000 to $20,000 most local roofers publish, so ask what is driving it. It can be reasonable for a very large or complex roof: one Fulshear page puts standard shingle roofs at up to about $30,000, and standing seam metal on a big house can pass it. The total alone does not settle it; the itemized roof area, tear-off, decking rate and flashing do.

There is no statewide average in our research, so local and national figures are the estimate: a Fulshear roofer publishes single-issue repairs at about $350 to $900 and storm work at $900 to $2,500, and national figures put most repairs at $300 to $3,000. A pipe boot or a few creased shingles sits at the low end.

One who examines the roof before quoting, names the materials and the cause of the problem in writing, and knows which office your address answers to. In Fulshear add one more: on a young roof, they should ask how old it is and check the installation before suggesting a replacement. Texas issues no roofing license, so the written quote is what you hold a roofer to.

Leaks in more than one place at once; shingles lifting along whole slopes in every wind; shingles curling or bare of granules across whole slopes; a sag you can see from the street; and daylight through the deck in the attic. On a roof only a few years old, most of these point to how it was installed rather than to age, and one sign by itself is usually a repair.

Catch any water inside, photograph the roof and the shingles in the yard from the ground, and call for temporary cover if the deck is open. Do not climb a wet roof. On a young Fulshear roof, shingles that blow off often had nails set too high or a starter strip installed wrong, so the repair looks at why they went as well as where.