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Every slope walked, the attic checked from inside, flashing and penetrations looked at, the shingle’s age estimated from granule loss and stiffness, and soft decking found by foot. The report comes with photographs and an opinion: repair, maintain, or plan for replacement. It is what a buyer’s general inspector does not have time to do from the top of a ladder.
TDI’s windstorm site has a certificate search, and the Department answers by phone at 800-248-6032, option 3. TWIA keeps its own lookup for the certificates it issued before TDI took over on June 1, 2020. For a Galveston County house, run the search before listing. A roof with no certificate on file will come up, and it is better to know first.
If there is none, a Texas licensed professional engineer can inspect completed work for a WPI-8-E. Whether the roof qualifies is the engineer’s decision; if it does not, the answer is a re-roof to the current code.
For Clear Lake City, Nassau Bay, Webster, El Lago and Taylor Lake Village there is no windstorm certificate to search for: those Harris County addresses are west of SH 146 and outside TWIA. Seabrook is inside.
A report and a certificate on file answer the buyer’s questions before they are asked.
A roof walk before the option period ends, with the certificate search run the same day.
When the insurer asks the roof’s age and material and nobody remembers.
The contractor’s inspection arranged through this site is free and comes with a written estimate. A TDI-appointed engineer’s inspection is a separate, paid service.
An hour or so on site for a typical house, longer for a large two-story with a complicated roof.
Whether a certificate exists for the property and for what work. It does not describe the roof’s condition.
Say whether it is a sale, a purchase or a renewal. A local contractor calls back to schedule.
Call (832) 905-8893 Book a Wind Inspection
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