Roofing Professionals of Texas

Monday, April 20, 2015 -- The hail pounded a wide swath of our area. Now homeowners are cleaning up what's left. Kathy, a homeowner, only has a few more scoops of debris to collect from her yard, but she's worried enough about her roof to get an inspector out to look for damage . "I think we will call them and have them come out and it would ease my mind just to have it looked at," Kathy said. Insurance agents say it's wise to have your roof checked even if you do not see any obvious damage from hail. We're looking for damage to the shingles, the vents, (and) the matting of the shingles. Agents say if there is damage, homeowners may only have a few months to file a claim depending on their insurance company, but it could be a year or more before a problem develops. Another tip is be sure to research any company offering to do the work.  One of the Presidents at Better Business Bureau, says homeowners should see someone who has been around and has a decent hist...

AUSTIN — Several weeks after signing a contract to get her roof replaced for $25,000 last summer, Mary Jane Pierson of Fort Worth started to worry she was getting scammed. Her repeated phone calls to the roofing contractor weren’t returned or she was offered a litany of excuses about why the job wasn’t getting done: the company’s office flooded, the owner’s wife was in the hospital, shipment of the shingles had been delayed. “I knew there was a serious problem,” she said, recalling the change in behavior of the roofer, whose initial friendly demeanor before he secured the contract — and a check for $14,000 — was gone. Pierson, whose $200,000 brick home is still waiting for a new roof, said the contractor originally came knocking on her door — as did several others — last spring after a massive hailstorm in North Texas. He was very helpful and offered to get her insurance claim moving — so she agreed to sign a contract. “Everything looked on the up and up. So I gave him the first check ...