Home › Service Areas › Kemah
Kemah is in Galveston County, a TWIA first-tier county. A re-roof here, or a repair to a significant portion of the roof, is built to the windstorm code the Texas Department of Insurance has adopted and inspected for a certificate of compliance.
A house on pilings has nothing breaking the wind below it and often nothing beside it. Roof edges, gable ends and soffits take the load first. Edge details, starter courses and fastening are not the place to economize on a Kemah roof.
Close to salt water, corrosion becomes part of the material choice. For a metal roof, ask which coating is on the panel and what its finish warranty says about distance from the coast; for shingles, ask about the fasteners and flashing metals. The standing-seam page goes further.
A Kemah re-roof is built to the code TDI certifies to and inspected while it is open, and TDI issues the WPI-8. Re-siding a significant portion of a wall is on the same list.
A re-roof or a repair to a significant portion of the roof does. Kemah is in Galveston County.
It lasts longer and has no exposed fasteners in standing-seam form; it also costs more. Salt exposure makes the coating choice matter.
A TDI windstorm inspector or an appointed Texas licensed professional engineer. TDI issues the certificate.
Say whether the house is raised and how close to the water. A local contractor calls back.
Call (832) 905-8893 Book a Wind Inspection
League City Roofing