New Construction Roofing in Melissa, TX
Your new roof is only checkable while it's still uncovered. You hear what our roofers find up there, good news included.
A new roof still gets a second look
The roof is the one part of your new house you can't inspect later. Decking, underlayment, flashing and vents all disappear under the shingles within a day of going on, and after that the only record you'll ever have of how they went down is what somebody wrote while they were still visible.
A house framed in July and closed in October carries a roof nobody living in it has ever seen. Melissa Roofing Co's roofers go up while there's still something to look at, and what comes back to you is what is up there, nothing padded.
What new-construction roofing covers in Melissa
A roof is a stack of parts that only work as a set: deck, felt, metal, vents, and then the shingles everybody sees. On a new build all of it is settled in the plans before the first bundle lands, so the part worth your attention is the part you will never see again.
- 01Roof decking
- The sheathing every other layer is nailed into. Once the felt goes down you won't see it again until the roof comes off.
- 02Underlayment layers
- The water barrier between the deck and the shingles. It's what keeps wind-driven rain out of your house when a shingle lifts in a storm.
- 03Flashing at penetrations
- New metal woven in at chimneys, sidewalls, valleys and pipe boots. Most leaks on a roof as young as yours begin at one of those joints.
- 04Intake and exhaust venting
- Air comes in low at your soffits and leaves high at the ridge. Two different exhaust types on one attic end up pulling from each other.
- 05The shingle line itself
- Which product your plans call for, and how many nails each shingle takes. Wind ratings hold only when the whole system goes on the way the maker specifies.
Which material your plans call for moves several of those lines at once, and the materials page walks through what each one does in this climate.
How our roofers look at a new build
How much you get to see depends on when somebody gets up there, and on a new build that window closes fast. Before the shingles go on, your deck and flashing are still open; afterward the look moves to the ridge, the vents and the edges.
Start with the plans
You send the roof pages out of your build packet, and one of our roofers working Collin County works through the deck, venting and flashing specs before anybody climbs onto your roof.
Up on the roof
One of our roofers walks the roof and shoots photographs from up there. You get the pictures, so nothing in the findings has to be taken on faith.
What comes back
You get an itemized write-up of what was found, section by section. It's yours to keep and to read at your own pace, before or after closing.
What to check on a builder-installed Melissa roof
A finished roof still shows plenty from the curb, and these are the lines our roofers walk first on a house as new as yours. Several of them you can pick out from your own yard.
- Ridge line: A new ridge should run dead straight from end to end, and a dip or a wave in yours usually means something underneath isn't sitting flat.
- Mixed exhaust vents: Box vents or a turbine set near a ridge vent will pull air from each other instead of from the soffits.
- Blocked soffit intake: Insulation or paint sitting where the air is supposed to enter starves the whole system, and you can spot it standing under the eaves.
- Flashing at the joints: New metal belongs layered into the shingles at every chimney, sidewall and pipe boot, and caulk alone in one of those spots does not hold for long.
- The very edge of the roof: Drip edge metal and the sealed starter course sit right at the eaves and rakes, and a roof missing either one shows it from your driveway.
- Valleys: Water moves fastest where two slopes meet, and fasteners placed in the middle of a valley only turn up in a photograph taken from above.
A first-year roof in Collin County still meets hail, and what hail leaves behind is far easier to place against pictures of your roof taken when it was new.
Why new-build roofing quotes differ in Melissa
Two numbers for the same new-build roof can land a long way apart, and neither one has to be wrong. The gap sits in the parts nobody itemizes out loud: how much of your deck is new lumber, which shingle line your plans call for, how many chimneys and pipes there are to flash, and whether your venting is a full balanced system or a lighter one. None of that is a knock on anybody's bid. Once you know which of those lines your plans carry, two numbers that disagree stop being a mystery.
See what roofs run in Melissa- How much of the deck is new lumber
- Which shingle line the plans call for
- Chimneys, sidewalls and pipe boots to flash
- Open metal valleys or a closed cut
- Full balanced venting or the lighter version
- Pitch, and how cut up the roofline is
New Melissa neighborhoods and their first roofs
You're moving onto a street where every roof went on at about the same time. Melissa built out around 2013 and stayed single-family, better than nine houses in ten, so what's overhead on most of these homes is still the original covering, inside its first decade. There's no worn roof next door to measure yours against, so the only baseline your roof will ever have is the one made while it's new.
- 01Hail on young shingles
- Collin County put 24 hail days on the record between 2023 and 2026, and your roof going on this spring meets the same sky as one from 2013. The warranty paperwork that comes with it covers manufacturing defects, and hail sits outside that.
- 02The clock on asphalt
- Asphalt runs around 20 years as a rule of thumb, so the roofs that went up with the town are into their second half while yours starts at zero.
The same walk on an older Melissa roof is a roof inspection, and it closes out the same way.
Get the roof specced before the build closes
Closing dates move and the roof goes on when it goes on, so the window where your deck is still visible is short. Send the address and where your build stands today, and one of our roofers works out what can still be seen on your roof and when to be up there.