Roof Repair & Storm Damage Replacement in Mumford

Look, I’ve been replacing roofs out here for over twenty years, and I can tell you Mumford gets hit from a perfect storm of bad luck, geographically speaking. We sit right in that corridor where the dry, hot air off the western plains slams into the humid Gulf moisture coming up from the coast. That collision doesn’t just give us a sprinkle—it stacks up those supercell thunderstorms that roll through like freight trains, usually starting in March and peaking right through May, with a second nasty round in the fall. The hail those storms drop isn’t that little pea-sized stuff you can shrug off; we routinely see golf ball to baseball sized stones, and when they’re coming down sideways at 60 miles an hour, they’re basically pounding your shingles with hammers. The wind is just as bad, because the open, flat farmland around here gives the gusts nothing to break them up, so we’ll see straight-line winds that hit 80 or 90 miles an hour, ripping shingles clean off the deck.

What makes it even trickier is the way our homes are built and how the storms hit us. A lot of the older houses in the area have that steep 6/12 or 7/12 pitch, which looks great, but it acts like a sail when that wind comes roaring across the Brazos Valley. The hail doesn’t just hit the flat part of the roof either—it blasts the ridge caps and the flashing around your chimney and vents, which are already the weakest points. And because these storms tend to pop up in the late afternoon and hit us in waves, one storm might loosen your shingles, and then the next one two weeks later finishes the job by peeling them back. I’ve seen roofs that looked fine from the street, but up close, the granules are scoured off and the matting is exposed, which means the next sunny day is baking the life out of them. It’s not a matter of *if* you’ll need a repair out here, it’s just a matter of how many times you’ll have to call me before you finally bite the bullet and re-deck the whole thing.