The Colony, Texas · Denton County
Roof Repair in The Colony, TX
Shingles, flashing, boots, ridge caps and valleys repaired properly, with an honest answer about whether repair is the right call for your The Colony roof.
If you need roof repair in The Colony, TX, what fails depends on which era of the city you live in. The original Fox and Jacobs housing from the 1970s and 1980s fails at the perimeter and the penetrations, while Austin Ranch homes from 2007 onward fail almost exclusively at penetrations.
Two Housing Eras, Two Repair Patterns
Fox and Jacobs began building on the eastern shore of Lake Lewisville in 1972 and the city incorporated in 1977, with much of that original stock going up through the late 1970s and 1980s as straightforward production homes. Austin Ranch, by contrast, dates to 2007.
On the original homes, the rooflines are mostly simple gables with long uninterrupted eave runs, so there are comparatively few flashing details to fail. What fails instead is the perimeter, where wind uplift concentrates and breaks the sealant bond along the eaves and rakes, plus pipe boots that hardened and split years ago and ridge caps that have taken decades of exposure at the highest line on the house. On Austin Ranch homes the shingle field is still young and the failures are almost entirely at penetrations: boots, vent flashings and the collars around anything a production crew installed quickly.
Lake Wind on Long, Simple Eave Runs
The Colony runs roughly 23 miles along the eastern shoreline of Lewisville Lake, and the western edge of the city takes wind off open water with nothing in the way. On a complex roofline that energy gets broken up by the geometry. On the long, simple gable roofs of the original Fox and Jacobs housing, it hits an uninterrupted eave and rake line and concentrates there.
The result is a repair pattern that looks different from what we see inland. Rather than a single failed detail causing a specific leak, we frequently find a whole perimeter run where the sealant bond has let go across many courses. Those shingles are still nailed and look entirely normal from the driveway, and they will admit water in every wind-driven rain until they are lifted, checked and resealed or replaced. We hand-check the perimeter on every inspection here, because assessing this kind of damage visually from the ground will miss all of it.
What Our Roof Repair Service Includes in The Colony
- Full roof inspection, not just the area you reported
- Missing, cracked and wind-lifted shingles replaced and the surrounding courses resealed
- Flashing repaired or replaced at chimneys, sidewalls, skylights and valleys
- Pipe boots replaced rather than sealed over
- Ridge cap and ridge vent repair
- Localized decking repair where rot is confined
- A written repair-or-replace recommendation with photographs, whichever way it falls
Full detail on how we approach this work, including materials, process and pricing factors, is on our main roof repair page. This page covers what is specific to The Colony.
Why choose us
Why The Colony Property Owners Call Us
We Will Talk You Out of Work
A free inspection from a company that only earns on replacements is a sales call. Ours regularly comes back recommending a small repair instead of the large job we could have sold, and sometimes recommending nothing at all for another few years.
No Roofing Cement Standing In for a Repair
Tar in a tube stops the drip and hides the defect from whoever looks next. It cannot survive the thermal cycling between a 105 degree August afternoon and a February freeze, so it cracks and lets water back in. We remove failed components and replace them.
Repairs That Do Not Void Your Warranty
Shingle manufacturers set conditions on how repairs are made, and a poor repair gives them grounds to decline a later claim on the roof as a whole. We repair to the manufacturer's specification, including nailing pattern and flashing detail.
Answers
Roof Repair in The Colony: Common Questions
My house is an original Fox and Jacobs build. What usually needs repairing?
The perimeter, the boots and the ridge, in roughly that order. Simple gable roofs have few flashing details to fail, so the problems concentrate where wind uplift is strongest along the eaves and rakes, at plumbing vent boots that split under UV long before the shingles wear out, and at ridge caps that have spent decades at the most exposed line on the house.
Austin Ranch homes are not old. Why would mine need repair?
Because roof failures are rarely about the age of the shingles. On a 2007 build the field is typically fine and the failure is at a penetration: a pipe boot that has hardened and split, or a vent flashing that was installed quickly during production and has worked loose. Those are small, inexpensive repairs, and they do a surprising amount of quiet damage to decking while nobody knows about them.
How do I know if my shingles have lost their seal?
You mostly cannot, from the ground. Unsealed shingles are still nailed and look completely normal, which is the whole problem. They have to be lifted and checked by hand along the perimeter, which is part of every inspection we do here because wind off the lake makes it so common on this side of the county.
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Photographs, a written diagnosis, and an honest repair-or-replace recommendation.