Roofing contractor in Flower Mound, TX

Big houses with complicated roofs

Flower Mound built out through the 1990s and 2000s on large lots, and the architecture of that period and that price bracket runs to complexity: multiple gables, dormers over the entry, turrets, long valleys, steep front elevations and a lot of roof planes meeting each other.

Complexity is where roofing costs sit. Every valley is a cut and a flashing, every dormer is four more, and steep pitches need staging and slow the crew down. Two Flower Mound houses of the same square footage can be several thousand dollars apart on a replacement purely because one is a simple hip and the other is not.

It is also where the leaks are. A simple gable roof has almost nothing to go wrong except the field and the penetrations. A cut-up roof has dozens of junctions, and a junction detailed badly fifteen years ago is a leak now.

Trees, and what they do to a roof here

Flower Mound has kept more of its tree canopy than most of its neighbors, and the town takes its tree preservation seriously. That is pleasant to live under and hard on a roof.

Overhanging limbs abrade shingles every time the wind moves them, drop litter into valleys and gutters that then holds water against the roof, and keep slopes damp enough on the north side to grow algae and moss. They also give squirrels a route onto the roof, and squirrels find fascia and vent screens.

The practical answers are unglamorous: keep limbs trimmed back off the covering, clear the valleys and gutters twice a year, and if you are under trees, gutter guards are worth the money here in a way they are not on an open lot.

Wind off the open ground

The western side of town backs onto open country and the Grapevine Lake corridor sits to the south, so wind arrives with less to break it than it has further into the Metroplex. Combined with the tall, steep elevations typical of the housing here, that puts real uplift on ridge caps and rake edges.

Wind damage reads differently from hail. Look for creased tabs, which have been folded back and laid down again, and for missing ridge caps. A creased shingle has already failed even though it is still in place, and it will let water through long before it looks wrong from the ground.