Amarillo Roof Pros: Roof Replacement, Repair & Storm Damage
Expert residential and commercial roofing services. Free inspections across Amarillo and the Texas Panhandle, and every roof specified to an impact rating and a wind rating.
- ✓Licensed, insured and bonded Texas roofing contractor
- ✓Free roof inspections with photographs and a written report
- ✓Impact class and wind class named on every proposal
- ✓Written workmanship warranty on every roof we install
Amarillo Roof Pros is a licensed, insured roofing contractor in Amarillo, Texas, handling roof replacement, roof leak repair, hail and wind damage restoration, metal roofing, flat and low-slope membrane work and commercial roofing across the Panhandle. We install impact-rated asphalt shingles, standing-seam and stone-coated steel, TPO, EPDM and modified bitumen, and we specify every roof to a wind rating as well as an impact rating.
That second number is the part most quotes leave out. A shingle can carry a UL 2218 Class 4 impact rating and still be rated only to 90 mph uplift, and on the high plains the stones and the straight-line wind behind them arrive in the same ten minutes. We read both pages of the product data sheet before recommending anything, and we show them to you.
The work covers tear-off and re-decking, deck re-nailing, synthetic underlayment, six-nail enhanced fastening, ridge and soffit ventilation, attic insulation, gutters, fascia and soffit, chimney flashing, skylights, emergency tarping and claim documentation. Inspections and estimates are free, the crews are ours, and every job carries a written workmanship warranty.
Why Amarillo Chooses Amarillo Roof Pros
- ✓Every proposal names both a UL 2218 impact class and an ASTM D7158 wind class, not just a brand
- ✓Inspections are done by hand on every slope, with marked test squares and a tab-by-tab seal test
- ✓Our own crews install the work, and the person who wrote your scope is on site while it happens
- ✓Upgrades are priced separately from the like-for-like option so you can see what a rating costs
- ✓We hand-seal rakes, hips and ridges on cold-weather installs instead of waiting on the weather
- ✓We put it in writing when a roof does not need replacing, and we do not knock doors after storms
About Amarillo Roof Pros in Amarillo, TX
Amarillo Roof Pros is a roofing contractor working Amarillo, Canyon, Borger, Pampa, Hereford, Dumas and the smaller Panhandle towns around them. We run our own crews rather than brokering work out, which means the person who measures your roof and writes the scope is on site while it is being installed. Licensed, insured and bonded, with a written workmanship warranty on every job.
The way we quote is different from most of what you will see after a storm.
Every proposal names the impact class and the wind class of the covering, the nailing pattern, the underlayment and the edge details, because on the high plains a roof has to answer hail and straight-line wind at the same time and those two demands do not point the same direction.
We would rather explain the trade-off than sell you a rating and let you assume it covers everything.
There are jobs we will talk you out of. If your mat is intact and your seal is sound we will tell you the roof has years left and put it in writing, and we will not quote a new tile roof in this market without first explaining why we think it is the wrong purchase against hail.
We do not knock doors after storms and we do not offer to cover deductibles. If you need someone to argue with your carrier, that is a licensed public adjuster's job, not ours.
Our Roofing Services in Amarillo, TX
Roof Replacement
A replacement here has to satisfy two tests that pull against each other. The covering has to survive a stone without fracturing its mat, and it has to stay attached when the same storm's outflow hits the rakes.
Roof Leak Repair
Almost nothing leaks through the middle of a shingle field. On the high plains, water gets in because wind pushed it somewhere gravity would not have taken it: up a rake, sideways under a lifted course, or through a penetration whose collar gave out years ago.
Storm Damage Roof Restoration
A Panhandle storm does two different kinds of damage in the same ten minutes, and they have to be assessed separately. Stones bruise the shingle mat.
Hail Damage Roof Repair
Hail does not wear a roof out, it fractures it. The stone drives granules down into the asphalt and cracks the fibreglass mat underneath.
Wind Damage Roof Repair
Wind damage is the half that gets missed, because a wind-damaged roof usually looks fine from the ground. Shingles that lifted and laid back down are broken at the crease and no longer sealed to the course below, and the next storm takes them off the deck entirely.
Roof Inspections
An inspection that only looks for hail is half an inspection. We check two independent things on every visit: whether the mat has been fractured by impact, and whether the covering is still attached well enough to survive the next gust front that comes across the caprock.
Asphalt Shingle Roofing
Asphalt covers the great majority of roofs in Amarillo, and choosing one here is not about colour or warranty length. It comes down to two laboratory numbers most homeowners never see, and to the fact that the shingles best at one of them are rarely best at the other.
Metal Roofing
Metal is sold hard in the Panhandle as the roof that beats hail. It is the roof that beats wind.
Tile Roofing
We service tile roofs in Amarillo and we do not recommend installing new ones here. That is an unusual thing for a roofing company to put in writing, so here is the reasoning behind it, and here is what we suggest instead when somebody wants the look.
Flat & Low-Slope Roofing
Low-slope roofs around Amarillo are usually not whole buildings. They are porch roofs, patio covers, room additions and the flat section tucked behind a parapet, and they fail for reasons that have very little to do with the shingled part of the same house.
Roof Coatings & Sealing
Coatings have a real use on low-slope membranes and almost none on a shingle roof. Both get sold under the same word, so here is where a coating earns its money in Amarillo, and the two situations where applying one is actively the wrong move.
Roof Ventilation
Ventilation is where the wind that damages roofs here also gets to walk straight into the attic. Most of the systems we find on Amarillo houses were chosen for airflow alone, and in a market with sustained wind that leaves out fully half of the problem.
Skylights
A skylight is a hole in the one part of your house that takes direct hail. We install and replace them and we are candid about the trade: adding one to an Amarillo roof puts the most vulnerable component you own in the most exposed plane you have.
Gutters & Downspouts
Gutters are the part of a roof that gets replaced for the wrong reason. Most of the ones we take off Amarillo houses were undersized for the roof above them or fastened in a way that could never hold in wind, rather than actually worn out.
Fascia & Soffit
Fascia and soffit look like trim and behave like structure. In a wind market the soffit is a pressure boundary, and when it lets go the attic pressurises from below and begins pushing the roof deck upward from the inside while suction pulls from above.
Chimney Flashing
Chimneys leak more often than any other penetration on a roof, and rarely because the flashing rusted through. They leak because the flashing was surface-mounted and held on with sealant, which has a service life of a few years in this climate rather than the life of the roof.
Emergency Roof Tarping
A tarp put on badly in Amarillo is worse than no tarp at all. Stapled sheeting becomes a sail in the outflow behind a storm, and when it goes it takes the shingles it was stapled to with it and enlarges the hole it was covering.
Commercial Roofing
Commercial roofs in Amarillo take the same two loads as houses and answer them differently. A membrane does not fracture, it punctures.
Insurance Claim Support
We can help with the documentation side of a roof claim and we are barred from the negotiation side. Texas law prohibits a roofing contractor from acting as an adjuster on a property it is contracted to repair, so here is what we do and what we will not do.
Commercial Roofing in Amarillo & Across the Texas Panhandle
We roof and maintain warehouses and cold storage along the rail, retail and restaurant buildings on the Interstate 40 and Loop 335 corridors, churches, schools, clinics, offices and agricultural buildings out in the county.
On a low-slope commercial roof the two storm loads behave differently than they do on a house: hail punctures rather than fractures, and wind peels a sheet back from the perimeter and the seams rather than lifting tabs.
Both are settled by decisions made in the specification, which is why we push a half-inch high-density cover board under the membrane and fully adhered systems on exposed buildings. Much of what we do is maintenance rather than replacement, and property managers with several buildings get one condition report per roof with a repair-versus-replace priority order attached.
- ✓60 and 80 mil TPO, EPDM and two-ply modified bitumen systems
- ✓Half-inch high-density or gypsum cover board under the membrane for hail resistance
- ✓Fully adhered assemblies with enhanced perimeter and corner fastening
- ✓Edge metal specified to the ANSI/SPRI ES-1 standard
- ✓Recover over an existing sound deck where a tear-off is not justified
- ✓Tapered insulation to build fall to drains and scuppers
- ✓Scheduled maintenance: seam welding, pitch pans, drains, scuppers, penetrations
- ✓Sectioned schedules so tenants and operations never have to close
Recent Projects Across the Texas Panhandle
How It Works
- Free Inspection, On the Roof. We walk every slope, lay out ten-foot test squares to count impacts, and lift tabs by hand at the rakes and hips to test the sealant bond. Both results go in a written report with photographs, whether or not there is any work in it for us.
- A Scope With Two Ratings On It. Your proposal names the UL 2218 impact class and the ASTM D7158 wind class of the product, the nailing pattern, the underlayment and the edge details. Where an upgrade makes sense we price it separately from the like-for-like number so you can compare.
- Tear-Off, Deck Work, Install. We strip to the deck, re-nail the sheathing to the current schedule, repair what is soft, then dry in with synthetic underlayment and cap nails. Starter goes at the eaves and up both rakes, and shingles go on with six nails in the nailing zone.
- Walk, Clean, Warranty. We walk the finished roof with you, hand-seal rakes and hips on cold-weather installs, run magnets over the lot twice, and leave you the photographs, the product data sheets and the written workmanship warranty in one file.
What Amarillo Customers Say
Two other companies quoted a full replacement from the driveway. These guys got on the roof, marked test squares, showed me photos of the slopes that were bruised and the ones that were not, and replaced two slopes instead of four.
They were the only bid that told me the wind rating of the shingle, not just the brand. Explained why the cheaper impact-rated one was a bad idea out here. Crew re-nailed the whole deck and hand-sealed the edges because we went up in November.
Ceiling stain in the hall turned out to be a split pipe boot, not the roof. They replaced the boot with a metal collar and charged me a service call. Could have sold me a roof and I would not have known any different.
Tarped us the same evening the storm came through and battened it down properly, not stapled. It held through two more fronts before the replacement. Photographs of everything under the tarp before they covered it, which my adjuster asked for.
Service Areas
Amarillo Roof Pros serves Amarillo, TX and surrounding communities including:
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I actually need a Class 4 impact-rated roof in Amarillo?
In most cases it is worth the money here, but not for the reason it is usually sold. A Class 4 rating under UL 2218 means the shingle mat did not crack when a two-inch steel ball struck the same spot twice, which is a genuine, tested improvement against hail.
The catch is that many impact-rated shingles reach that rating by being softer, and some carry only a 90 mph wind class. Around Amarillo both loads arrive in the same storm, so the product has to carry a high wind class as well.
We show you both numbers before you choose, and we price the upgrade separately from the like-for-like option.
How can I tell hail damage from wind damage on my roof?
They look nothing alike once you are up there. Hail fractures the fibreglass mat under the surface, and a bruise is found by feel, as a soft spot with a slight give, often with granules driven down into the asphalt.
Wind breaks the thermal seal between courses and creases tabs that have lifted and laid back down, so the roof can look untouched while half a slope is no longer bonded. Wind damage shows up first at the rakes, eaves, hips and ridge, because that is where uplift pressure is highest.
We check for both on every inspection, since a roof can fail one test and pass the other.
Will an impact-rated roof lower my insurance premium in Texas?
Most Texas carriers do discount premium for an impact-rated roof, and they generally want the manufacturer's UL 2218 certificate to apply it. Whether the discount justifies the upgrade depends on how long you will own the house. Over fifteen years it can offset a meaningful share of the extra cost; over three it will not.
Ask your agent what the discount is on your policy before you decide, and we will hand you the certificate and the product data sheet for the roof we installed either way.
Can my roof be repaired, or does it need replacing?
More roofs can be repaired than the industry admits. If the mat is intact and the sealant bond is still holding across the slopes, replacing a split pipe boot, re-bedding a flashing or swapping a few creased shingles costs a small fraction of a reroof and buys real years.
Replacement becomes the honest answer when bruising shows up across the field in test squares, or when the seal has failed on whole slopes and the edges keep lifting faster than they can be rebuilt. We show you the test squares and the tabs we lifted so you are not taking our word for it.
How long does a roof replacement take, and what happens to my yard?
A typical Amarillo house is a one to two day job once materials are on site, and a complex roof with steep sections, several penetrations or deck repairs can run into a third day.
We stage material to protect drives and landscaping, tarp the ground around the perimeter, and run magnetic rollers over the lot at the end of each day and again at the final walk. Weather moves schedules more than anything else here, and we will not dry in a roof ahead of a front we cannot beat.
Do you handle the insurance paperwork on a storm claim?
We handle the documentation and not the negotiation. Texas law prohibits a roofing contractor from acting as an adjuster on a property it is contracted to repair, so we do not interpret policies, tell you what your carrier owes, or offer to absorb a deductible, which is illegal in Texas anyway.
What we do provide is a slope-by-slope inspection with marked test squares, dated photographs of impact and wind damage, soft-metal evidence from the gutters and vents, and a written scope of repair. If your claim needs advocacy, hire a licensed public adjuster.