Garland Premium Roofing: Roof Replacement, Leak Repair & Storm Work
Expert residential and commercial roofing services. We work out who owns the wire over your roof before we schedule the crew under it.
Registered with Garland Building Inspection and permitted on every re-roof·Service drop clearance measured before new decking raises the roof plane·Decking priced per panel in the contract, not discovered at tear-off·Written workmanship warranty and lien releases at closeout
Garland Premium Roofing works on roofs across Garland and the East Fork corridor: replacement and leak repair, hail and wind claims, low-slope membrane over additions and commercial decks, metal panels, attic ventilation, gutters and fascia. Architectural laminate, impact-rated Class 4 coverings, standing seam, modified bitumen and single-ply, installed to the manufacturer's printed instructions and permitted through the city.
What makes a reroof here different is the wire. Most houses in this city went up when overhead electric service was standard, so there is a steel mast through the deck, a weatherhead above the shingle line and conductors crossing a slope the crew has to walk. The mast, riser and meter enclosure belong to the property. The conductors belong to Garland Power and Light, a city department rather than a private utility.
So the order of operations is part of the estimate rather than an afterthought. We measure the clearance between those conductors and the roof plane before new decking raises it, we flag riser and mast work for a licensed electrician instead of quietly working around it, and we book the utility on the calendar rather than hoping. You get a written scope, per-panel decking pricing and photographs of every slope.
Our Roofing Services in Garland, TX
Roof Replacement
A reroof here has a step most estimates leave out. The wire crossing your roof belongs to Garland Power and Light.
Roof Leak Repair
Work out what sits directly above the stain before anybody climbs anything. In a Garland ranch that list is short: a plumbing vent, the furnace flue, an abandoned evaporative cooler curb, and the electric service mast.
Storm Damage Restoration
Order matters more than speed. After a bad North Texas night the first call is not to a roofer.
Hail Damage Roofing
Hail writes its own date stamp, and the clearest one on a Garland house often is not on the roof. It is the meter enclosure on the wall, the downspout faces and the vent hoods, where soft metal keeps a dent honestly.
Wind Damage Roofing
Wind rarely starts in the middle of a roof. On a low one-story with overhead service it starts at the two places the house sticks out into moving air: the point where the drop attaches, and the edge metal.
Roof Inspections
Our report carries a section most do not. Before we look at a single shingle we photograph the mast, the weatherhead, the boot and the point of attachment, then measure the gap between the service conductors and the roof plane.
Asphalt Shingle Roofs
Architectural laminate is the right covering for almost every house in this city, and the tier above it is usually the wrong place to spend the difference. That is an unpopular opinion in a market sold this hard.
Metal Roofing
We talk more Garland homeowners out of metal roofs than into them, and the reason is usually strung across the front of the house at about twelve feet off the ground. It is a constraint rather than a preference.
Tile Roofing
Almost no house in Garland should be carrying clay tile, and the reason is structural rather than aesthetic. The framing under these roofs was sized for a light covering and for nothing heavier.
Flat & Low-Slope Roofing
The flat roof on a Garland house is almost never the house. It is the carport, the patio cover, the porch that got enclosed in 1977, or the den somebody extended out toward the back fence.
Roof Coatings & Sealing
A coating is maintenance, not a repair, and roughly half the people who call us about one are describing a roof that needs replacing. We would rather lose that job than sell a warranty stretched over wet insulation.
Roof Ventilation
We will not sell you a powered attic ventilator. We take a few of them out every summer, and we will explain why before we do, because it is one of the better products in roofing at sounding sensible.
Skylights
Two skylights in one room is one skylight too many in a Texas summer, and the second one is usually the unit that leaks. Light is easy to add here.
Gutters & Downspouts
Six-inch seamless K-style aluminum, three-by-four downspouts, and not one of them strapped to your electric riser. That last part is a rule here rather than a preference, and we get asked about it constantly.
Fascia & Soffit
The wire feeding your house is bolted to a piece of wood. On most ranch houses here that wood is a rafter tail sitting behind the fascia board, which makes rotten fascia an electrical problem as well as a carpentry one.
Chimney Flashing
Most chimney leaks in this city are not the chimney. They are counterflashing smeared onto the face of the brick with mastic, and mastic on brick has a life expectancy of about four Texas summers.
Emergency Tarping
We will not put a ladder on your house while the service drop is down. No price changes that, and no amount of rain coming through the living room ceiling changes it either.
Commercial Roofing
Garland's commercial stock is mostly single-story tilt-wall, older strip retail and light industrial along Broadway, Miller Road and the Forest Lane corridor. Nearly all of it sits on city power, which changes how rooftop work gets scheduled.
Insurance Claim Help
One storm can damage your roof and your electric service, and those two settle as separate repairs. The second one is where money gets left behind, because a roofing scope has no line item for a bent mast.
Why Garland Chooses Garland Premium Roofing
- ✓We photograph the mast, weatherhead and point of attachment on the first visit, because on a Garland ranch the service entrance is part of the roof whether or not anyone puts it in the estimate.
- ✓Riser and mast repairs are handed to a licensed electrician on their own city permit instead of being quietly worked around, since electrical is regulated trade work in Texas and roofing is not.
- ✓We measure the clearance between the conductors and the roof plane before you buy, because new decking and a thicker covering both raise that plane and shrink the gap.
- ✓Utility work orders are booked with Garland Power and Light at the start of a job rather than the week the material is delivered, so nobody sits waiting on a truck.
- ✓We turn down metal roofs on houses where a live drop crosses the staging side, and say plainly that the porch or the detached garage is where metal belongs instead.
- ✓We will not install a powered attic ventilator, and we will show you the intake measurement that explains why balanced passive ventilation is the better answer.
About Garland Premium Roofing in Garland, TX
Garland Premium Roofing works the east side of the metroplex, in a city mostly built between the mid-fifties and 1980 and wired overhead while it was going up. That history is why our estimates read differently from the ones a storm crew hands out. A roof here is attached to a service entrance, and the two have to be handled in the right order.
We install architectural and impact-rated laminates, standing seam and exposed-fastener metal, two-ply modified bitumen and single-ply membrane on low-slope additions and commercial buildings, and we do the small work too: boots, valleys, flashing, fascia, soffit intake and gutter. Everything is written down before it starts, decking is priced per panel rather than discovered on day two, and the photographs are yours whether you hire us or not.
Hire somebody else if the cheapest bid on the street is the goal, or if what you want is a roof laid over an existing layer. We do not nail into spaced plank decking without re-sheeting first, we do not coat shingle roofs at any price, and we do not sell powered attic ventilators. If your roof has years left we will say so in writing and lose the sale, which beats a replacement you did not need.
Service Areas
Garland Premium Roofing serves Garland, TX and surrounding communities including:
How It Works
Inspection, Including the Service Entrance
We walk every slope we can safely walk and use a pole camera on the rest, then photograph the mast, weatherhead, boot and point of attachment and measure the clearance between the conductors and the roof plane. The attic gets looked at from underneath with the lights off.
A Written Scope and the Right Permits
You get a line-item scope with decking priced per panel before anyone starts. We pull the city re-roofing permit. If the riser or mast needs work, we say so in writing and tell you it belongs to a licensed electrician on a separate permit, because that is regulated trade work and roofing is not.
Scheduling Around the Utility
If the job needs the service de-energized or the drop moved, that is booked with Garland Power and Light before materials are delivered. Around eighty-five percent of the city is on GP&L, so for most addresses that is one call and one work order rather than a chain of subcontractors.
Tear-Off, Install and Closeout
Full tear-off to the deck, replacement sheathing at the price already in your contract, underlayment, valley metal, drip edge, covering and new boots on every penetration. Then a magnet sweep, the final inspection, photographs of the finished work, the workmanship warranty and the lien releases.
Recent Projects Across the East Fork corridor
What Garland Customers Say
They found the leak over our breaker panel in about ten minutes and told us the pipe part was an electrician's job, not theirs. Fixed the roof side the same week and did not try to sell us the whole roof.
Measured the gap between the power line and our roof before quoting, which nobody else who came out even looked at. New decking would have brought it too close, so they planned for that up front instead of finding it later.
I asked for standing seam and they told me not to do it on the main house, then put metal on the shop and the porch instead. Saved me real money and explained exactly why the panels could not be staged out front.
After the hail they inspected, photographed everything, and told us our roof did not have enough damage to be worth a claim. Wrote that down for us. Two other companies had said the opposite an hour apart.
Commercial Roofing in Garland and Across the East Fork Corridor
We roof and maintain the tilt-wall, strip retail and light industrial buildings along Broadway, Miller Road and the Forest Lane corridor, plus warehouses, churches, schools and small offices out toward Rowlett and Rockwall. Most of this stock sits on city power, so a project that needs the service dropped runs on the utility's calendar.
We book that at the start rather than the week the membrane shows up, and we sequence tear-off so a tenant is never left with an open deck overnight.
- ✓Mechanically fastened and fully adhered single-ply membrane with heat-welded seams
- ✓Two-ply modified bitumen with a granulated cap sheet on smaller decks
- ✓Tapered polyisocyanurate built to positive drainage over a fiberglass-faced cover board
- ✓Standing seam and exposed-fastener metal on warehouses and church buildings
- ✓Rooftop unit curbs reflashed with crickets rather than another bead of sealant
- ✓Conduit racks and gas lines lifted onto sleepers with walk pads on service routes
- ✓Twice-yearly maintenance visits with drains cleared and a written photo report
- ✓Night and weekend sequencing on occupied retail, agreed with the property manager
Frequently Asked Questions
Is a permit required to reroof a house in Garland?
Yes. Re-roofing is permitted work through Garland Building Inspection and the job gets a final inspection. We pull it in our name as a registered contractor and hand you the closeout paperwork. A contractor offering to skip the permit and save a few days has just told you how the rest of that job would go.
The storm pulled the wire off my house. Who do I call first?
Garland Power and Light, and not us. The conductors from the pole to your house are the utility's, and they are live until GP&L says otherwise. If the mast, weatherhead, riser or meter base is damaged, that part belongs to you and a licensed electrician has to repair it before power comes back. We are the third call, and that is the right order.
Can you reroof my house with the power on?
Usually yes. If the conductors clear the roof plane and the mast is sound, we work around the drop, keep ladders and panel handling off that elevation and flash the mast penetration new. Long metal panels are the common exception, because there is no safe way to stand one up under a live service drop.
Is your company licensed by the State of Texas?
No, because Texas does not license roofers. There is no state roofing license, no state exam and no state board. What we can show you is city contractor registration, the permit for your job, current general liability and workers' compensation certificates from the carrier, and the manufacturer's application instructions we install to.
Will a new roof affect my electric service clearance?
It can. New decking over old spaced boards, or a thicker covering, raises the finished roof plane and shrinks the gap between that plane and the conductors above it. The electrical code wants eight feet over a roof surface, reduced to three feet where the slope is four in twelve or steeper. We measure it before you buy, not after.
Does Garland Power and Light serve the whole city?
About eighty-five percent of Garland. The rest of the city can take service from another provider, and neighboring addresses in Rowlett, Sachse and Mesquite are on different systems entirely. We confirm which utility serves your address before we schedule anything that needs the power off.