New Roof Cost in Crowley, TX

You won't find one Texas number that means much, because the roofs behind any average aren't very alike. Architectural shingle, the most common covering, runs $450 to $690 per square installed, so your simple ranch and a cut-up two-story down the street can share a footprint and still be different jobs at different prices. What separates them is your pitch, how broken up your roofline is, how many old layers are waiting under the top one, and what shape the wood underneath turns out to be in.

You'll usually do best in late winter, because that's the quietest stretch of the roofing year. Spring hail is what fills calendars across Tarrant County, and the backlog runs on through summer, so a roof you book in January is competing with far fewer jobs than one you book in May. Whether that quiet turns into a lower price depends on the roofer and the week. If you've got an open leak, don't hold it for the calendar. No season changes what your roof needs.

It's worth it if you're staying in the house long enough for the extra life to matter. Metal sits at the expensive end of the four coverings by a wide margin, $1,000 to $1,600 a square where architectural shingle is $450 to $690, so you're paying better than twice the outlay the day it goes on. What that buys you is a covering that dents under hail where an asphalt mat bruises and splits, and one that's still going decades after a shingle roof would've been replaced. If you're planning to move in a few years, our roofers will tell you it doesn't pay. How the coverings compare is laid out on the shingle page.

You're paying for everything it takes to leave a finished roof behind: the strip-out and the dumpster, the underlayment across your deck, the metal at every valley and wall line, the shingle itself, and the caps and vents along the top. Our roofers itemize all of it in writing at no charge, so you can see which line every dollar of yours is sitting on. Nobody's expecting you to know what half those lines mean. Ask, and a roofer walks them with you one at a time.

Your policy decides more of that than any price list does. Where your damage came from a storm, the estimate becomes the document your roofer and the adjuster work through together, and the deductible is the part you carry. Plenty of people can't tell storm damage from ordinary wear, and sorting that out is the roofer's job rather than yours. One can look before you file anything. What a claim involves is set out on the claims page.