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These Austin roofing projects are documented in sequence — the deck once the old covering comes off, the flashing and edge metal before anything covers them, and the finished roof from overhead. Most roofing galleries show you only the last of those three, which is the one that proves the least.
Every job below is a steep-slope residential replacement. Our commercial roofing work across Austin — membrane systems, tapered insulation, drainage corrections and metal on low-slope decks — is documented separately, because a shingle hip roof and a 40,000 square foot TPO deck have almost nothing in common beyond the word “roof.”
Filter by phase. The tear-off photographs are here deliberately: the deck is the part of a roof that decides whether the covering lasts, and it is also the part every gallery leaves out because it is not pretty.
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Dark staining across the original plank decking, and a section cut out where the sheathing had gone soft. None of this is visible until the shingles are off, which is exactly why a replacement quote written from the driveway is a guess.
A new sheathing panel let into the deck where the original boards had failed, cut to land on the rafters either side rather than bridging them. The cheaper move is to nail the new roof straight over soft decking and let the next owner find it.
Failed sheathing removed where the roof meets a wall — the most common place a steep-slope roof leaks, because it depends on flashing rather than on gravity. With the deck open you can see the rafters and the ductwork in the cavity, which is what a long-term leak eventually reaches.
A chase is a rectangular obstruction sitting in the middle of a sloped plane, so water has to be moved around it on all four sides. This one is flashed into the field with the shingle courses worked up to it, and the pipe boots on the same slope are seated flat. It is the detail with the highest ratio of skill to visible area on the whole roof.
New edge metal along a gable rake, with the shingle overhang running even the full length. Edge metal is cheap, frequently skipped on a low bid, and the reason a roof edge either lasts or rots the fascia behind it. If two quotes differ and one omits new edge metal, that is part of the gap.
Where the roof edge lands on an older cornice return, the metal has to follow trim that was never square to begin with. This is the work that decides whether a re-roof looks like it belongs on the house or just looks like a re-roof.
A full metal replacement across a main roof, a cross gable, a dormer and a rebuilt porch structure. The panel runs hold a consistent line from ridge to eave across four separate roof planes, and the hip and valley transitions are cut and closed rather than lapped and caulked.
A large hip-and-valley layout with a dormer, four vent penetrations and a long central ridge, finished in a weathered-wood architectural shingle. Houses in subdivisions like this were all built in one campaign, so they reach end of life within a few years of each other — if three roofs on your street are being replaced, yours is on the same clock.
Six planes meeting at four hip lines, finished in charcoal architectural shingle. Ridge vent runs are set into the field rather than surface-mounted, and the debris is loaded on the trailer instead of sitting on the lawn — which is what a finished job looks like on the last afternoon.
Nine roof planes, five valleys and a long central ridge. Roofs like this are where corners get cut, because every valley is a labour cost and every one of them is a place water concentrates. The overhead shot exists specifically so the valleys can be inspected.
Steep pitch, multiple gables, and a second-story elevation that puts the whole job on ladders and staging rather than walkable slope. Access and pitch are two of the variables that legitimately move a roofing price, and this roof carries both.
Attached residential units done as one job. What matters here is not the field — it is the wall-to-roof transition where one unit meets the next, and the flashing around the vents. Multi-unit work is priced and scheduled differently from a single house, and it is the closest residential analogue to the phased approach used on a multi-family property.
Three of the photographs above are of bare decking, and they are the most useful images on this page. Here is the reason: nobody can see the deck until the old covering is off, so every replacement quote contains an assumption about it — and the quotes that come back cheapest are usually the ones that assumed the deck is fine.
A deck repair allowance is a stated quantity of sheathing replacement included in the price, with a per-sheet rate for anything beyond it. A quote with that line is telling you what happens if there is rot. A quote without it is not cheaper; it is just deferring the conversation to the day the crew is on your roof and the old shingles are already in the trailer. That is the worst possible moment to negotiate.
Ask every bidder the same question: how many sheets of decking are in this number, and what does each additional sheet cost? Two contractors who both answer clearly can be compared. One who has not thought about it cannot.
A contractor cannot pay, waive, rebate or absorb your insurance deductible. Where it happens, the mechanism is normally an inflated invoice to the carrier — and that puts a false claim in the property owner’s name, not the contractor’s. If anyone offers to cover your deductible, that is the moment to end the conversation. This is general information, not legal advice.
Photographs are chosen. Video is harder to curate, which is most of the point — a continuous pass across a roof shows the parts a photographer would have framed out.
Chalk marks across the field where individual damaged shingles were identified and recorded. This is what documentation looks like before any claim conversation happens: findings marked on the roof, photographed in place and counted — not described from memory afterwards.
Synthetic underlayment run across the deck with the first courses going on. This layer is invisible the moment the roof is finished, which is why it is worth seeing now — and worth naming as a specific product on your scope of work rather than left as “underlayment.”
A continuous pass across the hips, ridges and valleys of a completed shingle roof. Watch the cap line rather than the field — the field is machine-uniform by design, and the caps are where a human either took the time or did not.
The longest clip here, and the least edited. It moves across planes, over a ridge, past penetrations and down a valley in one take. If you only watch one of these, watch this one, because a single continuous shot is the hardest kind of footage to hide anything in.
Twenty seconds over a completed roof from above. The three things that fail first on a steep-slope roof are valleys, penetrations and the ridge, and you cannot see any of them from the ground — which is the entire reason this footage exists and the reason a roof gets walked before it gets quoted.
Documentation like this is the output of an inspection, not a marketing exercise. How the visit works is on the Commercial roof inspection Austin page; what the resulting paperwork should contain is on the Austin roof estimate page. For commercial roofing and reroofing in Austin rather than steep-slope residential work, the membrane and low-slope pages carry that side of the portfolio.
Every roofing company on the internet has a gallery, and almost all of them are chosen to look good rather than to prove anything. Six checks that tell you whether you are looking at documentation or decoration — apply them to this page as well as to everybody else’s.
A gallery of nothing but completed roofs is a gallery of the easiest photographs to take. Tear-off, deck and flashing shots are the ones that show what was actually done.
Field shingle is easy. Hips, valleys, sidewalls, chimneys and pipe boots are where labour and skill actually go, and where leaks start.
Look for branded trucks, branded underlayment and logo shirts. If the branding in the photo belongs to a different company, you are looking at somebody else’s portfolio.
Crew on a steep slope with no harness, rope or anchor tells you what the safety culture is. It also tells you who carries the risk if somebody gets hurt on your property.
Ground-level photos hide the valleys, the ridge and every penetration. A gallery with no overhead shots is not withholding them by accident.
A wall of shingle houses is not evidence of membrane experience, and a wall of warehouses is not evidence they should touch your steep slope. Ask to see your system.
Ask any contractor for photographs of the roof system you actually have, on a building the size of yours, taken from above — and for one photograph of a deck with the covering off. A company that does this work has both on a phone and will send them inside the hour. A company that does not will change the subject to references, and that answer is itself the answer.
Worth saying plainly, since this page is trying to sell you something. The deck and flashing photographs above go further than most galleries do — they show the substrate and the transitions before anything covered them. But there is a real limit to what any photograph proves.
It cannot show fastener pattern, nail placement or nailing zone, which is the most common installation error on a shingle roof and only shows itself years later as slipped courses. It cannot show what is under the underlayment on a roof that is already finished. It cannot show whether the ice-and-water went into every valley or only the visible ones. And it cannot show whether the schedule held, whether the site was swept each night, or what happened the first time something went wrong.
Those are answered by walking a roof, reading a line-item scope, and calling two references and asking them exactly two questions: did the schedule hold, and what happened when there was a problem. The gallery gets you to the shortlist. It should not get you to a signature.
Because the deck is what decides whether the new covering lasts, and it is the part nobody can see until the old roof is off. A gallery of finished roofs shows you the surface on one afternoon. A photograph of replaced sheathing shows you what the crew did when they found a problem they could have covered over instead.
Ask for it as a stated number: how many sheets are included, and what each additional sheet costs. The quantity varies by roof age, previous leaks and ventilation, so there is no universal figure — but a quote that names a quantity and a unit rate can be compared against another one, and a quote that stays silent on it cannot.
Because the parts of a roof that fail first are invisible from the ground. Valleys, hip and ridge lines, sidewall flashing and pipe penetrations all read from overhead and almost none of them read from a driveway. An overhead photograph is the only view that lets somebody who is not a roofer actually check the work.
The gallery on this page is steep-slope residential replacement work — architectural shingle and standing seam metal. Commercial membrane work, tapered insulation and low-slope metal are documented separately, because the systems, the failure modes and the buying process are genuinely different.
You should ask for exactly that, from everybody you get a bid from. Ask for overhead photographs of your system on a building roughly the size of yours, and one photograph of an exposed deck. A contractor who does that work has them to hand.
Very little. Pitch, access, story height, deck condition, system type and the amount of detail work move a roofing price far more than square footage does, and none of that is visible in a finished photograph. Pricing ranges and what an estimate should contain are on the estimate page.
The roof gets photographed from overhead and obliquely, the site is cleared and magnet-swept, the warranty is registered, and the closeout file goes to the owner with the photographs and the material documentation. The dated finished-condition record is the part people appreciate two years later rather than on the day.
No. Texas does not issue a state roofing license, which is why a license number is not a meaningful credential here. What is worth verifying instead: manufacturer certification for the exact system being installed, a current certificate of insurance naming your property, workers’ compensation coverage, a written workmanship warranty separate from the material warranty, and references on comparable buildings.
A roof gets walked, photographed and documented before anybody puts a number on it. No obligation, and you keep the photographs whether or not you hire us — that is how Austin commercial roofing specialists should be quoting work.
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Project photographs and video show completed and in-progress work and are provided as examples of scope and finish; they are not a representation that your roof will present the same conditions, cost or schedule. Roof systems, pitch, access and deck condition vary by building, and decking replacement quantities in particular cannot be known before tear-off. Any figures discussed elsewhere on this site are planning ranges, not quotations. Warranty terms depend on the system installed and manufacturer registration. Information about insurance claims and Texas contractor licensing is general information and not legal advice.
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