Roof Replacement in Melissa, TX
The replacement call is yours to make, and our roofers hand you an itemized estimate to weigh.
Replacement on a house this new
Does a roof this new really need replacing?
Most houses here are still on their first roof, so the word replacement lands hard. Give it two more hail seasons and you'll usually know more than you know today. Until then, the number that means anything is the one a roofer works out standing on your roof, with photographs and the shingle grade named. Ask Melissa Roofing Co, and that's what you'll be holding.
What a Melissa roof replacement covers
When somebody says replacement, it's fair to want to know exactly what you're buying for that number. A tear-off here means the old covering comes off down to the wood, and everything above it goes back new.
- 01Tear-off to the deck
- The old shingles and felt come off so the wood underneath is visible. Nothing new goes down over an old covering.
- 02Decking checked and replaced
- Soft or split sheets show themselves once the roof is bare. Your roofer counts them and shows you the count.
- 03Underlayment over bare wood
- Synthetic underlayment goes down across the whole deck before any shingle does. It is the layer that keeps wind-driven water off the wood.
- 04Flashing, boots and valleys
- Pipe boots, valley metal and wall flashing come new with a full replacement. These are the details that leak first when old ones are reused.
- 05Ridge, vents and edges
- Drip edge, ridge cap and the vents along the top finish the assembly. They are where wind starts working on a roof, so they go on new.
Decking damage and a steep pitch change the work, and our roofers price those once the old covering is off. A roof going on a house that has never had one is a different job, and new construction roofing covers that side.
The order of a Melissa replacement
From the first walk to the last shingle, a replacement runs in the same order every time.
The walk
Your roofer climbs it, measures the roof slope by slope, and photographs what is wrong before anybody talks about replacing it.
The estimate
You get the measurements, the decking allowance and the number for the work described. It is yours to take home and read at your own pace.
Tear-off and install
The old roof comes off, your roofer walks the bare deck with you, and the new assembly goes down the way the estimate described it.
Signs a Melissa roof is past repairing
Plenty of Melissa roofs get called replacements while a repair would still hold. Past a certain point the patches stop holding, and these are the signs of that.
- Granules filling the gutters: Once the mat under the shingle is showing, that shingle has stopped protecting anything.
- Soft spots underfoot: Decking that flexes when a roofer walks it means water has been sitting in the wood a while.
- Leaks in more than one place: A single leak is a repair, and four of them usually mean the covering has given up.
- Hail bruises on every slope: When the dents show up on all four sides, the storm worked over the whole roof.
- Patches on top of patches: A roof repaired three times in the same spot rarely holds a fourth.
Any one of these is worth a look from somebody who is up there. If a storm put it there, the hail damage page covers how hail shows up on a roof here.
Why two Melissa replacement quotes differ so much
Two quotes on the same Melissa roof can land a long way apart without either roofer doing anything wrong. The spread lives in what each one assumes: how much decking a roofer expects to replace, whether the old covering comes off or stays where it is, which shingle grade each roofer priced, and whether flashing and boots come new.
Ours names each of those on its own line, so every part of the number has a reason attached to it.
More on Melissa roof pricing- Roof size, pitch and how many stories
- Whether the old covering comes off or stays
- How much decking turns out to be bad
- The shingle grade each quote assumes
- Flashing, boots and vents new or reused
- Disposal and haul-away in the number or not
Collin County hail and what it does to shingles
A roof here usually doesn't wear out. It gets hit. Hail moving across Collin County does more to a five-year-old roof in one storm than a decade of sun does, so the age of a roof tells you very little about whether it needs replacing.
- 01Stones that bruise the mat
- Collin County hail comes down large enough to fracture the asphalt mat under the granules. A fractured mat leaks eventually, whatever year the roof went on.
- 02Wind along the edges
- Gusts get under shingles at the rakes and ridges first, and a lifted tab often reseals crooked. Lifted tabs are the damage nobody sees from the driveway.
- 03Impact-rated shingles
- Class 4 is an impact rating a shingle earns in a lab test. Our roofers spec it where a slope is coming off anyway and the extra toughness is worth the difference.
Replacement questions Melissa homeowners ask first
Q1My roof is barely ten years old. Can it really need replacing?
Q2How do I know I am not being sold a replacement I do not need?
Q3What actually gets replaced?
Q4Why do two quotes on the same roof land so far apart?
Q5Do I need a permit for a replacement in Melissa?
Have the roof measured before you decide
You shouldn't have to decide on a new roof from a driveway conversation. Ask Melissa Roofing Co, and a local roofer measures yours first.