Tyler Roof Pros: Roof Replacement, Repair & Storm Damage
Expert residential and commercial roofing services. Written inspection reports across Tyler and Smith County.
- Texas issues no roofing license, so we hand you the paperwork instead
- Insurance certificates sent to you directly by the carrier
- Decking and fascia priced per unit in the contract, before tear-off
- Lien releases and a bills-paid affidavit at closeout
Our Roofing Services in Tyler, TX
Roof Replacement
Texas will not tell you whether the crew on your roof is any good. No state agency licenses roofers, so the vetting falls to you.
Roof Leak Repair
A leak is the job where an unlicensed trade shows itself fastest. Nobody permits a nine-hundred-dollar repair and nobody inspects it, so the only quality control is whether you asked for proof.
Storm Damage Restoration
The week after a line of storms crosses Smith County, the knock at your door is the real hazard. Texas requires no license, no registration and no local address to sell a roof, so the person on your porch may be gone by October.
Hail Damage Roofing
If a roofer offers to cover your deductible, that is a disqualifier and not a discount. Texas Business and Commerce Code 27.02 makes it a crime to pay, waive, rebate or absorb a property insurance deductible, and it is a Class B misdemeanor.
Wind Damage Roofing
Wind almost never takes a whole roof in Tyler. It takes a rake edge, a ridge cap run, or eight shingles above a garage where the nails were driven high.
Roof Inspections
Texas licenses the person who inspects your roof when you buy the house and licenses nobody who replaces it. That is not a rhetorical point.
Asphalt Shingle Roofs
Roughly nine out of ten roofs in Smith County are asphalt, and the manufacturer warranty on every one of them turns on the printed application instructions rather than on any license the installer holds. That is the one standard you can hold a contractor to.
Metal Roofing
If you are buying metal to beat hail, stop and read your policy first. The Texas Department of Insurance adopted a cosmetic damage endorsement decades ago that excludes hail damage which changes how a roof looks without affecting how it sheds water.
Tile Roofing
Most of the time we talk Tyler homeowners out of tile, and this page exists to explain why rather than to sell it. If you already have tile we will service it properly.
Flat & Low-Slope Roofing
The most common low-slope roof in Tyler is not a commercial building. It is a back porch, a carport, or a nineteen-seventies addition running two in twelve behind a pitched house, and it is usually leaking because somebody shingled it.
Roof Coatings & Sealing
On a residential shingle roof, the honest recommendation is almost always to skip the coating. It is the single product we get asked about most and the one we decline to sell most often, so here is the reasoning in plain English.
Roof Ventilation
Ventilation is the one part of a Tyler roof that a code official actually checks, which makes it the rare place where the paperwork and the physics agree on the same answer. The residential code sets net free ventilating area at one square foot per one hundred and fifty of attic floor, or one per three hundred where the vent split and vapor conditions are met.
Skylights
If you are reroofing and there is a skylight in the field, replace it now. The labor to flash a new unit is already in the job, and pulling a twenty-year-old skylight out of a two-year-old roof costs far more than the unit ever did.
Fascia & Soffit
Rotten fascia and bad decking are where an unregulated trade invents money, because both are discovered after the tear-off has started, when the homeowner has no room left to push back. Fix that with a unit price in the contract before anyone climbs a ladder.
Chimney Flashing
A chimney causes more roof leaks in Tyler than any other single detail, and the fix is almost never sealant. Flashing is a mechanical assembly of overlapping metal, and once somebody has replaced it with a tube of caulk, you are on an annual maintenance plan nobody told you about.
Commercial Roofing
On a commercial building the lien math flips against you, and most Tyler property owners do not know it until the letter arrives. The homestead protections that shield a house do not apply to a shopping center, a warehouse or a church.
Insurance Claim Help
We are not allowed to handle your claim, and that is the law rather than a policy of ours. Texas Insurance Code 4102.163 bars a roofing contractor from acting as a public adjuster, or advertising to adjust claims, on a property they are contracted to repair.
Tyler Roof Pros is a roofing contractor in Tyler, Texas, handling roof replacement, leak repair, storm and hail damage, metal roofing, low-slope membranes, ventilation and commercial work across Smith County. We install architectural laminate shingles, standing seam metal, TPO and modified bitumen, and we put the scope in writing before anything comes off your roof.
Here is the part nobody in this trade likes to say out loud. Texas does not license roofers. No state agency issues a roofing contractor license, no exam is required, and the industry credential you see advertised is voluntary. That means the job of checking the contractor was never handed to a regulator. It was handed to you.
So this site is built to do the regulator's work. Insurance certificates verified with the carrier, a street address in East Texas you can drive to, a permit pulled where the city requires one, the ten percent the Property Code tells you to reserve, and lien releases at closeout. Straight answer, real numbers, and the honest recommendation even when it is a repair instead of a roof.
What Tyler Customers Say
Three companies told me I needed a full replacement after the spring hail. These guys marked test squares, counted hits and told me I had one bad pipe boot and about seven years left. Charged me for the inspection, fixed the boot, and that was it. Still dry.
What sold me was the contract. It had a price per sheet for decking written in before they started, so when they found four soft sheets there was no argument, just a number. Everybody else wanted to sort that out on the day.
Storm took the ridge caps off at midnight. They tarped it properly with strips screwed to the deck, photographed everything, sent it to me before I woke up, and did not push a single contract at me. Came back a week later with a quote I actually compared.
They walked me through why nobody in Texas is licensed for this, then handed me insurance certificates straight from their carrier and lien releases at the end. First contractor who ever explained the ten percent holdback instead of hoping I would forget.
Why Tyler Chooses Tyler Roof Pros
- ✓We put the two numbers that cause every mid-job argument into the contract up front: dollars per sheet of replaced decking and dollars per linear foot of replaced fascia.
- ✓Our inspections are paid and the report is yours, because a free inspection is a sales call and the person who finds damage is the person who sells the roof.
- ✓We will not offer to cover your deductible, and we will tell you why: Texas Business and Commerce Code 27.02 makes that a Class B misdemeanor.
- ✓We do not touch your claim negotiation. Texas Insurance Code 4102.163 forbids it for any contractor doing the work, so we give you evidence and you keep control.
- ✓We plan for you to hold the statutory ten percent for thirty days after completion, and we bring the lien releases that let you release it with confidence.
- ✓After a storm there is no contract signed under a flashlight and no contingency agreement in the folder.
About Tyler Roof Pros in Tyler, TX
Tyler Roof Pros works Tyler, Whitehouse, Lindale, Bullard, Kilgore, Jacksonville and the smaller towns across Smith, Gregg, Rusk, Cherokee, Wood and Upshur counties. Residential reroofs and repairs, storm and hail work, metal, low-slope membranes and ventilation, plus commercial TPO and modified bitumen for retail, church and warehouse property.
We built this business around one fact about our state: Texas licenses nobody in this trade. There is no exam, no board and no registry, so the checks a licensing agency would run somewhere else simply do not happen here. Rather than paper over that, we do those checks in the open. Carrier-issued insurance certificates, a real street address, permits where the city requires them, unit prices in the contract, and lien releases at closeout.
When not to hire us. If your roof needs one pipe boot and a few shingles, call a small local repair outfit and pay them a couple of hundred dollars. If you are selling in the spring and the roof has five honest years left, do not let anyone talk you into replacing it.
And if your claim has been denied and the dispute is really about coverage rather than about shingles, you want a licensed public adjuster or an attorney, not a roofing company.
How It Works
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A Documented Inspection You Own
We walk every slope we can stand on safely, use a pole camera for the rest, and go into the attic with the lights off to look for daylight and damp sheathing. You get dated photographs numbered to a findings list, a layer count, a pitch measurement and a plain statement of remaining life. The report is yours whether you hire us or not.
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A Written Scope With Unit Prices
The quote names the shingle line, the underlayment, the flashing and the fastening pattern, and it carries two unit prices most contracts leave out: dollars per sheet of replaced decking and dollars per linear foot of replaced fascia. That way the mid-job conversation about rot is arithmetic instead of a negotiation you cannot win.
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Permit, Insurance and Paperwork Before Tear-Off
Inside the Tyler city limits we pull the roofing permit through Development Services. Everywhere we work, the carrier sends you our liability and workers' compensation certificates directly. You also get the disclosure statement the Texas Property Code requires before a residential construction contract is signed.
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Closeout With Lien Releases and the Reserve
At the end you get the final invoice, unconditional lien releases from the supplier and any subcontractor, a bills-paid affidavit and the registered manufacturer warranty. Then you hold the statutory ten percent for thirty days. We plan for that and we will never ask you to skip it.
Commercial Roofing in Tyler and Across Northeast Texas
We roof and maintain retail centers, medical and office buildings, churches, schools and warehouse space across Tyler, Kilgore, Longview and the surrounding counties.
Commercial property does not get the homestead lien protections a house does, so we run the paperwork tightly: subcontractor and supplier lists before mobilization, the statutory reserve held to term, and unconditional lien releases collected with every payment rather than once at the end.
On the roof itself the work is membrane systems, tapered insulation, sheet metal and a maintenance log that actually keeps the warranty in force.
- ✓60 and 80 mil TPO, mechanically attached or fully adhered
- ✓EPDM on small and heavily penetrated roofs
- ✓Two-ply modified bitumen where foot traffic is heavy
- ✓Tapered polyisocyanurate to build slope on flat decks
- ✓Silicone restoration systems over prepared seams
- ✓Core cuts to prove whether insulation is wet before quoting
- ✓Walk pads at every rooftop unit and service path
- ✓Documented semiannual inspection to keep warranties valid
Service Areas
Tyler Roof Pros serves Tyler, TX and surrounding communities including:
Recent Projects Across Northeast Texas
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need a licensed roofer in Tyler, Texas?
You cannot hire one, because Texas does not issue a roofing contractor license. The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation administers no roofing program at all, and the Roofing Contractors Association of Texas calls its own program voluntary self-regulation rather than a government license. Anyone in Texas can legally call themselves a roofer.
What you can verify instead is a certificate of insurance sent by the carrier, a physical address you can drive to, and a permit pulled with the city.
Does the City of Tyler require a permit to replace a roof?
Yes. A roof replacement inside the Tyler city limits is permitted through Development Services and applications go through the city's online portal. The residential code applies statewide to city work under Local Government Code 214.212, which adopts the International Residential Code as the municipal residential building code. Outside a city limit, in unincorporated Smith County, there is generally no building permit and no inspection for a reroof at all.
Can an unpaid supplier put a lien on my house if I already paid the roofer?
On a Texas homestead it is harder than most people are told. Property Code 53.254 requires a written contract signed by both spouses, executed before work starts and filed with the county clerk, before a lien can attach, and most roofing contracts never do that. What is real regardless is the reserve: Section 53.101 says you hold ten percent of the contract price for thirty days after completion, and your exposure is limited to that amount.
A contractor offered to cover my deductible. Is that allowed?
No. Texas Business and Commerce Code 27.02 makes it a crime for a contractor to pay, waive, rebate or absorb a property insurance deductible, and it is a Class B misdemeanor carrying up to a hundred and eighty days and a two thousand dollar fine. Treat the offer as a disqualifier. The money always reappears somewhere in the scope, usually as a cheaper material than the one on the estimate.
Will you handle my insurance claim for me?
We are not allowed to. Texas Insurance Code 4102.163 bars a roofing contractor from acting as a public adjuster, or advertising to adjust claims, on a property they are contracted to repair. Any East Texas company promising to negotiate your settlement is offering something it cannot legally do while also doing the work. We document thoroughly and give you the evidence. If you want representation, Texas does license public insurance adjusters.
How long does a roof last in Tyler and when should I replace it?
Fifteen to twenty-five years is the realistic range for asphalt in this climate, and south and west slopes age years ahead of north ones. Replace when the mat is brittle enough that shingles crack on lifting, when granule loss is general rather than local, or when three or more slopes are leaking at once. One split pipe boot on a twenty-year-old roof is a ninety-minute repair, and we will tell you that rather than quote a replacement.