Does Texas license roofing contractors?

No. Texas has no state roofing license, so there is no license number to check and no state board to complain to about workmanship. That puts the weight on the written contract, the insurance paperwork and the windstorm certificate.

Can a roofer pay my insurance deductible?

No. Texas Business and Commerce Code section 27.02 makes it an offense for a contractor to pay, waive, absorb, rebate or credit the deductible on a claim. An offer to cover it is a reason to stop, not a discount.

What is a WPI-8 and do I need one?

It is the windstorm Certificate of Compliance the Texas Department of Insurance issues after an inspection. If the house is covered by TWIA for wind and hail, a roof replacement needs one, and the inspection has to be arranged before the work is buried under new shingles.

A roofer knocked on my door after the storm. Can I get out of what I signed?

Usually yes, if you signed at home rather than at their office. Texas Business and Commerce Code chapter 601 gives three business days to cancel a sale over twenty five dollars that was solicited somewhere other than the seller's place of business, in writing, before midnight on the third business day.

A weathered grey shingle roof on a low house near open bay water, with wind bent oak beside it.

Roofing in Corpus Christi and the Coastal Bend

Salt air, wind uplift and a windstorm certificate nobody mentions until the roof is already off. Here is what actually matters on a Coastal Bend roof, written down plainly.

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Wind uplift, not just hail
The WPI-8 certificate, explained
Salt air kills the fasteners first

Roofs fail differently down here. Inland a roof gets beaten flat by hail and everyone knows what that looks like. On the Coastal Bend the damage usually starts at an edge, works under a course of shingles and lifts. By the time water shows up on a ceiling the wind event that caused it may be two seasons back, and the adjuster is looking at a roof that photographs fine from the driveway.

The other thing that catches people is paperwork. Nueces, San Patricio and Aransas counties all sit in the coastal strip where the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association writes wind and hail cover, and TWIA wants a Certificate of Compliance, the WPI-8, before it will treat an improved structure as eligible. Since June 2020 those certificates come from the Texas Department of Insurance under its own windstorm inspection program, and TDI keeps a field office in Corpus Christi. The inspection has to happen while the work can still be seen. A roof that goes on without it is a roof you may have to open up again.

None of that is complicated once somebody says it out loud. What follows is the short version of each piece, town by town and job by job. If you would rather just get somebody out to look at it, the number at the top of the page goes to one roofing company that works this coast.

Start with the roof work people call about, or go straight to your town. There is more on who puts this site together and how to get hold of somebody.

There is also a longer piece on what the coast itself does to a roof, which is four separate processes running at once and is worth knowing before anybody quotes for anything.

Three things this coast does to a roof

None of them look like damage from the driveway, which is why they are usually found late.

Wind uplift at an edge. The sealant strip has let go, the course sits proud of the one below, and the metal underneath is open to the weather.
Salt corrosion on the small parts. The collar has perished and the fasteners are rusting from the outside in, under a salt film that never fully dries.
Granules stripped off the slope and washed into the keyways. Where they have gone the darker mat is already showing, and it photographs much like hail.

What people call about

Towns on this site

Aransas Pass, Ingleside, Robstown, Gregory and Flour Bluff sit inside the same wind zone and the same rules apply. Call and say where the house is.

Questions people actually type

Does Texas license roofing contractors?: No. Texas has no state roofing license, so there is no license number to check and no state board to complain to about workmanship. That puts the weight on the written contract, the insurance paperwork and the windstorm certificate.
Can a roofer pay my insurance deductible?: No. Texas Business and Commerce Code section 27.02 makes it an offense for a contractor to pay, waive, absorb, rebate or credit the deductible on a claim. An offer to cover it is a reason to stop, not a discount.
What is a WPI-8 and do I need one?: It is the windstorm Certificate of Compliance the Texas Department of Insurance issues after an inspection. If the house is covered by TWIA for wind and hail, a roof replacement needs one, and the inspection has to be arranged before the work is buried under new shingles.
A roofer knocked on my door after the storm. Can I get out of what I signed?: Usually yes, if you signed at home rather than at their office. Texas Business and Commerce Code chapter 601 gives three business days to cancel a sale over twenty five dollars that was solicited somewhere other than the seller's place of business, in writing, before midnight on the third business day.

Tell us what the roof is doing

Fill this in and it goes to one roofing company that works the Coastal Bend. Not a list of nine, and nobody sells your number on.

Who you reach when you call

Salt Line Roofworks writes and publishes these pages. The number at the top rings one roofing company that works the Coastal Bend, and the form reaches the same place. Nobody from this site turns up at your door, and what you send is never put out to a panel of contractors to bid over. The site is operated by Marketing Doctor LLC.