McAllen Roof Pros: Roof Leak Repair, Replacement & Storm Damage
Expert residential and commercial roofing services. Free walked inspection, fixed-price scopes, and se habla espanol.
- Licensed and insured Texas roofing contractor
- Se habla espanol on every call and every crew
- Free walked inspection with every penetration photographed
- Written workmanship warranty on every installation
Our Roofing Services in McAllen, TX
Roof Replacement
Replacing a roof in McAllen is a decision about detailing, not about shingle age. A field with eight properly rebuilt penetrations outlasts a newer field with no kickout flashing.
Roof Leak Repair
Where a ceiling stains and where water entered are two different places. It lands on the deck, tracks along the underside of a rafter until a nail or a seam interrupts it, and drops there.
Storm Damage Roof Restoration
A storm here does not behave like a storm in North Texas. Instead of a violent twenty-minute cell, the Valley gets six to ten hours of rain pushed by sustained wind out of one quadrant.
Hail Damage Roof Repair
Hail is real in the Valley and it is not the annual event it is up the I-35 corridor. Our hail arrives with spring frontal storms, a few times a decade at damaging size.
Wind Damage Roof Repair
Uplift starts at the perimeter, every time. Wind flowing over a roof separates at the rake and the eave, and the suction there is several times what the middle of the field sees.
Roof Inspections
An inspection here is a water-path audit, not a shingle count. Anybody can tell you a roof looks worn.
Asphalt Shingle Roofing
Asphalt covers most roofs in McAllen and it will keep covering most of them. The argument worth having is not whether to use it but how it is fastened and lapped, because in a market where rain arrives sideways those two things decide everything.
Metal Roofing
Metal is a good answer here for a specific reason, and it is not the one usually advertised. A standing seam panel lifts its joints out of the water plane and closes them mechanically, which is what a roof needs when rain is being pushed uphill across it.
Tile Roofing
Understand one thing about tile and the rest follows: the tile is not the roof. It is a shell that sheds water and shades what sits under it.
Flat & Low-Slope Roofing
The Valley has more low-slope residential roof than most Texas markets, because the regional building tradition runs to masonry and stucco with parapet walls. Those roofs leak in one particular place, and the middle of the membrane is almost never it.
Roof Coatings & Sealing
This is the page where we argue against something. Coatings are a genuinely good product on a low-slope membrane and a genuinely bad one on a residential shingle roof, and in a hot market the wrong version gets sold constantly.
Roof Ventilation
Ventilation here is asked for two things at once, and they fight. Hot, humid air has to leave an attic running well over 130 degrees, and the opening that lets it out must not turn into a doorway for rain traveling horizontally.
Skylights
We install skylights, we service them, and we will usually try to talk you out of a new one. In deep South Texas a skylight is a hole in your best-insulated surface, and one more penetration in a roof whose leaks all come from penetrations.
Gutters & Downspouts
McAllen averages a little over twenty-two inches of rain a year, and a large share of it arrives in a handful of events. September alone averages close to five inches.
Fascia & Soffit
The eave does two jobs at once and in this market they conflict. The soffit is the intake half of your attic ventilation, so it has to be open.
Chimney & Wall Flashing
There are not many chimneys in McAllen, and this page matters anyway, because the detail that keeps a chimney dry governs every vertical surface a roof runs into. Around here that means stucco walls, second-story offsets and framed chases far more often than masonry fireplaces.
Emergency Roof Tarping
Tarping is a technique, not a favor, and here it has to account for heat. A peel-and-stick tarp or a taped edge on a deck at 150 degrees releases within a day or two, usually at night, and the second failure is worse because everyone assumed the roof was covered.
Commercial Roofing
McAllen's commercial stock reflects what the city actually does: produce and freight warehousing feeding the bridges, cold storage, medical buildings along the clinic corridors, retail strip serving cross-border shoppers, and schools. Each puts different equipment on the roof, and the equipment is where water gets in.
Insurance Claim Support
A Valley roof claim turns on one question, and it is not the age of the roof. It is whether wind first created an opening.
McAllen Roof Pros handles roof replacement, roof leak repair and storm damage roofing across McAllen, TX. We work in architectural asphalt shingles rated Class H for wind, standing seam and R-panel metal, concrete and clay tile, and TPO and modified bitumen on low-slope decks. Every job opens with a walked inspection and a written scope rather than a driveway estimate, and every penetration on the roof is photographed before anything is priced.
Most calls we take here are not about a worn shingle field. They are about water that arrived nearly sideways and found a split pipe collar, a headwall with no counterflashing cut into the stucco, an unbaffled ridge vent or a condenser line sealed with tar. So we trace the path back from the stain, then price the detail that actually failed.
That work extends to gutters and downspouts, fascia and soffit, skylights, attic ventilation, roof coatings, emergency tarping and commercial roofing for property managers and facility teams. We are a licensed and insured Texas roofing contractor, we carry a written workmanship warranty on every installation, and se habla espanol on every call.
What McAllen Customers Say
Two roofers told me I needed a full tear-off. These guys spent an hour in the attic and on the roof, found three cracked pipe collars and a headwall with no counterflashing, and fixed it for a fraction of a replacement. It rained hard in September and the ceiling stayed dry.
Our ceiling only leaked when the wind came out of the south, which nobody else could explain. They asked about wind direction first, went straight to that elevation, and found the ridge caps had hinged. Clear photographs before and after, and a fixed price they stuck to.
We manage a small warehouse near the bridge. They numbered every rooftop unit and penetration, gave us a written condition report with a budget forecast, and worked a Saturday so we did not lose a shift. First contractor we have used who tracks the roof instead of just patching it.
We are only down here half the year. They inspected before we left and again when we got back, and caught a soffit panel that had blown out of its channel in August. Explained everything in Spanish for my husband. Worth every dollar for the peace of mind.
Why McAllen Chooses McAllen Roof Pros
- ✓We trace the leak before we price it, including a staged hose test where the path is not obvious from the attic
- ✓Six-nail high-wind fastening and rake starter course as standard, not as an upgrade line
- ✓Self-adhered membrane at every valley, penetration and headwall, because sideways rain defeats a plain lapped sheet
- ✓We quote the repair instead of the replacement when the shingle field still has service left in it
- ✓Baffled ridge venting specified over plain slot vents, which take water in during a driven rain
- ✓Se habla espanol, and every scope is explained in whichever language you would rather read it in
About McAllen Roof Pros in McAllen, TX
McAllen Roof Pros is a licensed and insured Texas roofing contractor working McAllen, Hidalgo County and out to the Starr County line. We build in asphalt, metal, tile and low-slope membrane, and the through-line across all of it is the same: in a market where rain travels sideways for hours at a time, a roof is only as good as its penetrations, its perimeter, and the flashing where it meets a wall.
That view comes from what we actually get called for. Very few of our leak calls turn out to be a worn-out shingle field. They are split collars, missing kickouts, stucco headwalls that were sealed instead of counterflashed, ridge vents with no baffle, and low-slope porch tie-ins that stop at the wall. So we inspect for water paths, we quote against a named defect, and we photograph the failure before and the correction after.
There are jobs you should not hire us for. If you want a reflective coating rolled over an asphalt shingle roof, a gutter system on a single-story house with wide overhangs and no drainage problem, or a tear-off when the field is sound and every leak traces back to a penetration, we will decline and tell you why. Se habla espanol, and we would rather lose the sale than sell a roof nobody needed.
How It Works
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Walked Inspection, Every Penetration Photographed
We walk the roof rather than judging it from the driveway, and every penetration gets its own photograph: plumbing collars, vent housings, the condenser line portal, satellite mounts, the ridge run and each point where a slope meets a wall. Then we go into the attic and read the sheathing for old water tracking.
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We Trace the Leak Before We Price It
The stain is rarely under the entry point, so we work backward from it. Where the path is not obvious from the attic, we hose test in stages from the bottom up with someone watching inside. It takes longer than guessing and it is the only method that produces an answer you can hold us to.
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A Written Scope You Can Compare
You get a document naming the deck repair allowance, the underlayment product, the fastening pattern and the full flashing list, with a fixed price. Anything a second contractor quotes can be read against it line by line. If the honest answer is a repair rather than a replacement, the scope says so.
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Built, Cleaned Up and Warranted in Writing
Crews tarp landscaping, run a magnet over the drive and the lawn twice, and haul the tear-off the same day. You receive final photographs of every rebuilt detail, the manufacturer paperwork, and our written workmanship warranty. We come back and look at anything you are unsure about after the first heavy rain.
Commercial Roofing in McAllen & Across the Rio Grande Valley
We roof and maintain the buildings that carry this economy: produce and freight warehousing feeding the international bridges, cold storage, medical and dental buildings along the clinic corridors, retail strip serving cross-border shoppers, churches and school campuses.
Nearly all of it is low-slope, and nearly all of the water gets in at rooftop equipment rather than through the field, so our surveys number every penetration and track each one between visits.
We install fully adhered TPO over a cover board and two-ply modified bitumen, set edge metal to the ES-1 design standard with a continuous cleat, and cut overflow scuppers where a parapet drains through a single outlet.
Most of our commercial relationships are maintenance rather than replacement, and we work nights and weekends where a tenant cannot lose floor space during trading hours.
- ✓Fully adhered TPO and two-ply modified bitumen re-cover and replacement
- ✓Every rooftop penetration numbered, photographed and tracked between visits
- ✓ES-1 rated perimeter edge metal set on a continuous cleat
- ✓Overflow scuppers cut where a parapet drains through a single outlet
- ✓Cold storage vapor retarder and insulation detailing specified per building
- ✓Twice-yearly condition reports with a rolling capital budget forecast
- ✓Drains, scuppers and gutters cleared before the wet season each year
- ✓Night and weekend work for retail, clinic and school tenants
Service Areas
McAllen Roof Pros serves McAllen, TX and surrounding communities including:
Recent Projects Across the central Rio Grande Valley
Frequently Asked Questions
Why does my ceiling stain only appear when it rains from one direction?
Because the water is entering at a detail that loads under a particular wind direction, which is extremely common here. A headwall that stays dry in ordinary rain will take water when a storm pushes it up the wall for six hours out of the south. That is also why a repair made after one storm can fail in the next one from another quadrant. We ask which way the wind was blowing and inspect that elevation first.
Do I need an impact-rated Class 4 roof in McAllen?
Usually yes, but not mainly for hail. Damaging hail reaches the Valley a few times a decade, far less often than it hits the I-35 corridor. What earns the upgrade here is that most Class 4 shingles use a polymer-modified asphalt that stays flexible through our heat and holds its sealant bond under wind loading, which happens every year. Price it as wind and heat insurance, and treat the hail resistance as a bonus.
Is McAllen inside the Texas windstorm inspection area?
No. The Texas Department of Insurance designated catastrophe area covers fourteen coastal counties including Cameron and Willacy, but not Hidalgo. A homeowner in La Feria or Raymondville can obtain a windstorm certificate on new work; a homeowner in McAllen cannot. Practically, that means no state inspection verifies your wind detailing here. It rests entirely on your contractor, which is a good reason to read the flashing and fastening lines of a scope closely.
My house sits empty from spring to fall. What should I do about the roof?
Have it inspected before you leave and again when you return, because the window you are away includes September, our wettest month by a wide margin. A leak that starts in a vacant house is found months later, by which point the insulation, the drywall and sometimes the ceiling framing are involved. We close up the penetrations and the eave before departure and check what moved on return. It is the cheapest roofing money a seasonal owner spends.
Should I put a reflective coating over my shingle roof to cut cooling costs?
We advise against it. A coating over asphalt shingles bridges the course lines, interferes with the way a lapped roof drains, traps moisture in the mat and paints over the penetration details that are usually causing the leak. Coatings are a good product on a sound low-slope membrane and a poor one on a residential shingle field. If the goal is a cooler house, fix the attic intake and exhaust first.
What does a roof repair cost in McAllen?
Small detail work such as replacing a set of split pipe collars, resetting hinged ridge caps or retrofitting a missing kickout flashing generally runs from the low hundreds to around a thousand dollars. Cutting a reglet and setting new counterflashing at a stucco headwall costs more, because it involves patching the finish afterward. We quote a fixed price against a named defect with a photograph of it, so you are not paying for an hourly search.