Roof Replacement in The Colony, TX

If you need a roof replacement in The Colony, TX, which half of the city you live in changes the job substantially. The original Fox and Jacobs housing is on its third or fourth roof, while Austin Ranch is only now reaching its first.

A City Built in Two Distinct Waves

Fox and Jacobs bought roughly 2,500 acres on the eastern shore of Lake Lewisville in 1973, having started building the year before, and the first family moved in during 1974. The City of The Colony incorporated in 1977. Much of that initial housing stock went up through the late 1970s and 1980s as straightforward production single-family homes, and a good deal of it still trades in the $250,000 to $275,000 range today.

Those original homes tend to have simple gable rooflines, which makes for an efficient and predictable tear-off, and they have typically consumed three or four roofs by now. What we find under them is the accumulated history of that: previous overlays, decking that has been wet at some point, original ventilation sized to 1970s practice rather than the current code ratio, and flashing that has been sealed with roofing cement more than once. Austin Ranch, which dates to 2007, is a completely different proposition and is mostly seeing its very first full replacement now.

Twenty Three Miles of Shoreline and What It Does to a Roof

The Colony extends roughly 23 miles along the eastern shoreline of Lewisville Lake, and that geography is not incidental. Wind coming across open water reaches the western edge of the city with nothing between it and the rooflines, and the fetch across a lake that size is long enough to matter.

The consequence is concentrated wind uplift at the perimeter of the roof rather than in the middle of a slope. On the original Fox and Jacobs homes, where the roofline is simple and the eaves run long and uninterrupted, that perimeter is the whole story. We give particular attention to starter course at eaves and rakes, drip edge fastening and nail placement within the manufacturer's designated strip, because those details are what convert a shingle's rated wind performance into actual performance on an exposed western-facing lot.

What Our Roof Replacement Service Includes in The Colony

• Complete tear-off to bare decking, never an overlay
• Failed sheathing replaced at a per-sheet rate quoted before we start
• Synthetic underlayment across the full deck, ice and water shield in valleys
• New drip edge, step flashing, valley metal and pipe boots, never reused
• GAF architectural or Class 4 impact-resistant shingles to the manufacturer's nailing pattern
• Attic ventilation measured against code and corrected where it falls short
• Magnetic nail sweep of the whole property and full debris haul-off

Full detail on how we approach this work, including materials, process and pricing factors, is on our main roof replacement page. This page covers what is specific to The Colony.