Roof Repair in Magnolia, TX
Most roof repairs are a diagnosis problem before they’re a labor problem. Patching the wrong spot is easy, cheap, and completely useless — the stain on your ceiling reappears after the next hard rain and you’re back where you started.
We’re based in Magnolia, and we’re a CertainTeed ShingleMaster contractor. A live person answers our phone day or night.
The leak nobody else could find
A good share of our repair work arrives after somebody else has already tried. Homeowners tell us they’d had two or three contractors out, each of whom guessed, patched something, took payment, and left the leak running.
Water is deceptive. It enters at one point, travels along the underside of the decking or down a rafter, and shows up on your ceiling several feet from the actual hole. Chasing the stain instead of the entry point is the single most common reason a repair fails. We work it the other way around: find the entry, prove it, then fix it.
What we repair
Roof penetrations
Plumbing vents, water heater flues, bathroom and kitchen exhaust, chimneys, skylights, satellite mounts. Penetrations fail more often than the field of the roof, because they depend on flashing and sealant rather than shingles doing what shingles do.
This is a large part of our work, and the reason plumbers in this area call us.
Flashing failures
Step flashing at sidewalls, counter flashing at chimneys, valley metal, drip edge. Flashing is where two surfaces meet, and where most long-running leaks originate.
It’s also the most common thing we find done wrong by a previous contractor.
Storm and wind damage
Creased or missing shingles, lifted ridge cap, hail bruising. Storm work has its own considerations, including how the insurance side gets handled.
Wear, age and missing shingles
Granule loss, curling, brittle shingles, nail pops, and shingles that blew off because the adhesive strip had already let go.
Decking and structure
Where water has been getting in for a while, the plywood underneath is often soft. There’s no point shingling over rotten decking, so we check for it and replace what needs replacing.
Animal entry points
Squirrels and rodents get into attics through gaps at the roof edge, at gable vents, and around penetrations. Sealing those properly is roofing work, not pest control work — which is why pest control companies refer it to us.
Repair or replace? How we actually decide
You should be suspicious of any roofer whose answer to every problem is a new roof. Here’s the honest framework.
A repair usually makes sense when: the damage is isolated, the surrounding shingles still have life in them, the material can be matched, and the underlying decking is sound.
A replacement usually makes sense when: the roof is failing in multiple places at once, the shingles are brittle enough that working on them creates new damage, granule loss is widespread, or you’re facing repeated repairs to a roof that’s near the end of its service life anyway.
The awkward middle case is a roof with several years left and one real problem. There we’ll tell you what a repair buys you and roughly when you should plan to replace, so you can budget instead of being surprised. Plenty of our reviews are from people we told did not need a new roof. More on roof replacement →
Matching your existing shingles
A repair that doesn’t match is a repair you’ll look at every time you pull into the driveway. Colors get discontinued, they weather, and the same product can differ by production run.
We’d rather source the correct material than talk you into accepting a patch that stands out — on one job that meant driving 60 miles for the right specialty shingle. When an exact match genuinely isn’t available anymore, we’ll tell you up front and walk you through the options rather than surprising you at the end.
What a repair visit looks like
- We inspect the roof and the attic, because the attic often shows the entry point the roof surface hides
- We photograph what we find and show you the photos
- You get a written explanation of the cause — not just the fix
- A clear price before any work starts
- We clean up the site, and leave spare matching material with you where we have it
Where we work
Get it looked at
An inspection costs you nothing and gives you a written answer either way. A live person answers our phone, day or night.