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Roofing contractor in Fort Worth, TX
The office is on E Vickery Blvd, which puts most of Tarrant County inside half an hour.
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Fort Worth roofs are old enough that the tear-off is the interesting part
The city built out early and it built out in rings. The neighborhoods closest to downtown, the near south side, Poly, Riverside, the stretch either side of E Vickery where our office sits, carry housing that predates the Second World War, and most of those roofs have been replaced several times.
What that means on the day is layers. A roof that has been done twice with a second layer laid over the first instead of a tear-off is common on this stock, and there is no way to know until the first layer is off. It roughly doubles the tear-off labor and the disposal volume, and it is the single biggest reason a Fort Worth estimate carries a decking allowance rather than a flat number.
The decking underneath is the other half of it. Plank decking on a pre-war house is not the four-by-eight sheet a modern roof is nailed to, and boards that have been wet at any point in seventy years do not hold a nail. Those come out.
Same Standard Everywhere
The storm is the same here. What is under the shingles is not.
Hail crosses the whole city at once
Fort Worth sits in the part of North Texas that takes damaging hail most springs. When a core comes through it does not stop at a neighborhood boundary, so an entire district files in the same month, every crew in the county books out in the same week, and the door knocking starts within days.
The practical advice is the same every year. Write down the date of the storm, photograph what you can see from the ground, and get somebody on the roof while the event is still recent enough to tie the damage to.
West side, east side, and the difference it makes
Head west toward Benbrook and White Settlement and the stock gets newer, mostly post-war ranch with simple gable and hip roofs that are quick to cover. South down the Chisholm Trail Parkway through Crowley and Burleson it is newer again, two-story with more valleys and steeper pitches.
Steeper and more cut-up costs more to roof, and it is nothing to do with the address. It is jacks, harnesses and a flashing detail at every valley, dormer and penetration, and that is labor rather than material.
Commercial work downtown and along the corridors
The strip centers, restaurants and small warehouses along the arterial roads are a different roof entirely: low-slope membrane or built-up over a deck, usually with a shingle mansard across the front for appearance. That is two systems on one building, and it is the usual reason three quotes on a commercial roof come back three different scopes.
What we do here
The same four, in Fort Worth.
Roof Replacement
Tear-off, decking repair, ventilation and a new roof system, on a house or a commercial deck.
02Hail Damage Repair
A free hail inspection, documented properly, so the claim reflects what the storm actually did.
03Insurance Claim Assistance
We work with all insurance companies and stay on the job through every stage of the claim.
04Roof Repair
Leaks, blown shingles, failed flashing and pipe boots, on residential and commercial roofs.
FAQs
Roofing contractor in Fort Worth, answered
How quickly can you get to a Fort Worth address?
The office is on E Vickery Blvd just south of downtown, so most of the city is a short drive. Call and you will get a real date, which after a large storm is further out than anybody would like.
Do older Fort Worth homes cost more to roof?
Often, and the reason is layers and decking rather than the age itself. A second layer doubles the tear-off, and plank decking that has been wet has to come off.
Do you work on historic homes?
Yes. Where a neighborhood has a conservation or historic designation there can be restrictions on what the roof may look like, and that is worth settling before material is ordered.
Do you cover commercial buildings in Fort Worth?
Yes. Shingles, built-up, modified bitumen, EPDM single-ply, thermoplastics and gutter systems.
Let's work together
Let us look at the roof.
We come out, walk the slopes, photograph what is up there and tell you whether it needs anything. No charge, hired or not.
XS Roofing and Construction 200 E Vickery Blvd, Fort Worth, TX 76104 (817) 938-0489 · info@