The Best Roofers in Houston

Amstill is the only residential roofer in Houston we found that publishes its Roofing Contractors Association of Texas licence number in plain sight, 01-0483, which is the single most useful thing a roofer can do in a state that does not license the trade. It has been working Houston since 1974 under founder Frank Stilley, and its own site names Sam Stilley as the current chief executive, so the succession is on the record rather than implied by a stock photo.

The certification stack is the broadest here. GAF Master Elite, Owens Corning Platinum, CertainTeed, Malarkey, plus DaVinci for composite and Ludowici for clay tile. That last pair matters more in Houston than people expect, because the older streets inside the Loop carry a lot of tile and slate, and the list of firms that will touch either without subcontracting it out is short. There is a walk-in location on Memorial Drive, and the company also runs a second office in Round Rock.

State Roofing publishes an RCAT licence number too, 03-0169, and it holds GAF Master Elite with the President's Club residential award, which is the three-star tier above Master Elite rather than a directory badge. It lists membership of both the Better Business Bureau and the Roofing Contractors Association of Texas.

The reason it is this high is one line on its own services list that nobody else here carries. Wind storm certification. If your house is in the strip of Harris County east of Highway 146, your insurance may hang on a Texas Department of Insurance WPI-8 certificate, and a roofer who already works inside that process is worth more to you than one who has to learn it on your job. One honest note. The about page does not give a founding year, so we are not quoting one, and it runs a second office in College Station at 4090 Raymond Stotzer Parkway.

M&M has been going since 1983, a date its own site states and the Better Business Bureau's record of the business start independently matches, which is a better class of evidence than most founding years in this trade get. It is a roofing, siding, window and gutter contractor rather than a roof-only shop, so it is the sensible call when the storm took the roof and the west-facing siding together and you would rather not coordinate two crews.

It has grown into a multi-city operation, with offices listed for Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Beaumont, Seabrook and Lake Charles. We would normally treat that as a strike against a local list, and here it is not, because the Houston address is the original one and the Seabrook office sits inside the windstorm zone rather than being a landing page for it. Multi-family work is on the service list as well.

Founded in 1990 by Eric Enneking, GAF Master Elite, BBB A plus, and a participant in the GAF Roofs for Troops rebate. The range runs past composition shingle into standing seam and metal restoration, clay and concrete tile, siding, windows and gutters, and it publishes roof maintenance plans, which is a service most residential roofers here do not bother to offer and which is the cheapest way to make a roof last.

Two things to be straight about. The address is Pearland, not Houston, about twenty minutes south of the Loop, and the service area it publishes covers Clear Lake, Friendswood, League City, Webster and Pasadena as well as the city. Also worth knowing if you are searching from memory, the domain houstonroofing.com now redirects here, so a search that looks like it is finding a generic Houston firm is finding this one.

This is not a house roofer and you should not call it about a bungalow. Chamberlin is a commercial and industrial contractor whose company history goes back to 1897 and whose Houston roofing and waterproofing business was founded in 1978, which makes it the longest-running commercial roofing operation on this page by a wide margin.

The work is single-ply TPO, PVC and EPDM, modified bitumen, metal systems, coatings and restoration, plus the part that makes it different, waterproofing and building envelope repair. On a flat commercial roof the leak is very often not the roof, it is the parapet, the joint or the facade, and a contractor who does both does not have to argue with another trade about whose problem it is. One honest note. Its Houston page names no specific manufacturer certification, only certified professionals in general terms, so the case for it is the record and the scope rather than a badge.

A family firm founded in Houston in 1991 that does commercial, industrial and some residential roofing, waterproofing and facade repair. What sets it apart is the architectural and sheet metal shop it runs in house. Most roofers order flashing, copings and custom metal from a supplier and wait; a contractor with its own fabrication can make an odd detail the same week, which is the difference between a historic cornice being repaired and being replaced with something that nearly fits.

It is also listed as a contractor member by the Slate Roofing Contractors Association, which is an outside trade body rather than a paid directory, and it works beyond Texas into Louisiana and further. If you have an old Houston building with copper, slate or a complicated parapet, this is the number.

Holden has been roofing in this part of Texas since 1961, which is the longest run of anybody on this page, and it holds Owens Corning Platinum Preferred, the manufacturer's top residential tier. It covers residential shingle, metal and tile along with commercial low-slope and coatings, and it does storm work including emergency tarping, which is the service that actually matters in the week after a hurricane.

It is last here for one reason, and it is a reason we apply to everybody. Its own site lists seven offices, Houston, Spring, Austin, San Antonio, San Marcos, Temple and Dallas, and publishes a phone number for each and a street address for none. Business directories put the corporate office at 2128 First Street in Rosenberg, but that is directory data, not the company's own word, so we are not printing it as fact. If a verifiable address matters to you, ask for one before you sign.