Roofing Materials for Rowlett, TX Homes
Few roofing materials belong on a roof in this heat. Our roofers name the ones that fit your slopes and your deck.
What wears a Rowlett roof out first
August is when Rowlett Roofworks gets the metal question. The sun is what prompts it, and it's the right place to start, because whatever goes up there lives through a Texas summer before hail ever touches it.
Hail is the second test. The covering that handles the sun best isn't always the one that takes a stone best, and the priciest option isn't automatically the right one for your house. Our roofers look at yours and tell you what each option would mean for it, and the choice doesn't have to be decided the day they come out.
Roofing materials that hold up in Rowlett
Most Rowlett houses are wearing architectural shingles, and the ones that aren't are usually wearing metal. Tile and synthetic sit on a smaller share of streets here, and every one of them answers the sun and the hail differently.
Architectural asphalt shingle
The layered shingle on most Rowlett streets. It's the default here partly because when it takes damage, that's something a roofer can repair a slope at a time.
Impact-rated asphalt shingle
A toughness score rather than a style, earned on a lab drop test. The same architectural looks come in it.
Standing-seam metal
Roll-formed panels with every fastener tucked under the seam, so nothing is left sitting out in the weather to work loose. Big hail dents it more often than it opens it up.
Clay or concrete tile
Heavy, and the framing under it has to be built to carry it. A cracked tile comes out one at a time instead of a slope at a time.
Synthetic composite
Made to pass for slate or shake at a fraction of what stone weighs. It holds its color and asks almost nothing of you.
Cedar shake
Real wood, and nothing imitates the way it silvers with age. It also wants cleaning and treatment on a schedule, which is why it stays rare on Rowlett streets.
* Warranty and insurance numbers depend on the product and the carrier, and get confirmed in writing before work begins. The manufacturer warranty follows the system installed.
How Rowlett roofing materials compare
Looks are the last thing that separates these. What separates them is how many years you're buying and what you'll be doing about the roof in the meantime. Choosing differently also moves what a new roof costs.
Those year counts are national service-life figures for the materials themselves, published by roofing trade bodies, not measurements taken on Rowlett streets. Ventilation, pitch and how well a roof went on will move any of them.
Material questions Rowlett homeowners ask
A covering decision only settles the surface. The parts that go through the roof, like skylights, and the gutters that carry water off the edge, are separate calls with their own answers.
Q1What holds up best against DFW hail?
Q2Is metal worth it over asphalt on a Rowlett house?
Q3Does my attic have anything to do with which material I pick?
Q4Can a new roof go on top of the old shingles?
Talk through materials for your Rowlett roof
Say which house it is and what you're leaning toward, and our roofers look at what your roof will actually carry. They name every option that suits it, and the figures come with it.