How did we pick these?
Texas does not license roofers. There is no state exam, no state number to look up, and no state board to complain to. That single fact changes how a list like this has to be built, because the usual shortcut of checking a licence does not exist here.
So we worked from the records that do exist and that nobody can buy on the way past. We started with three membership lists that are not ours and not for sale to anonymous operators, the Tyler Area Chamber of Commerce roofing category, the Tyler Area Builders Association roofing category and the Roofing Contractors Association of Texas contractor database, which issues the state's only voluntary roofing licence. Then we pulled every Better Business Bureau file for a roofing contractor in Tyler and sorted by accreditation date, because a company that has held accreditation since 1986 is a different animal from one accredited in December. Then we checked manufacturer directories, which is where the GAF and Owens Corning certifications either exist or do not. Every company here appears in at least two of those places.
There are no partners, clients or sponsored entries on this list. Nobody in clients.json runs a roofing company in Smith County, so the scaffold pre-filled nothing and nothing was cut for a relationship.
What did we leave off, and why?
A search for roofers in Tyler returns a wall of businesses whose entire identity is the search term. We left off Roofing Tyler TX LLC, Tyler Roof Repair and Texas Roof Masters Tyler, all of which own Tyler-shaped names and none of which we could tie to a checkable local history. We left off Erie Home, which is a national provider rather than a Tyler company.
Two real businesses were cut for address problems rather than quality. AAA Roof Works has a BBB file under a Tyler county road address, but its own website gives Gladewater and other listings give Hawkins, and we could not resolve which is the working shop. Spartan Exteriors LLC is a genuine Tyler company with a chamber listing and a BBB file, but its published address is residential and a second Spartan Exteriors trades in Round Rock, which makes the record harder to read than it should be. A and B Roofing has a BBB file dating its start to 1982, which would have put it near the top, but no street address is published anywhere we could find. The Original I.C.S. Roofing has a Tyler office at 400 Rice Rd and a BBB file listing Tyler as headquarters, but its own website is built around Sherman, three hours north, so we have named it here rather than ranked it.
What should you know before you go?
Two practical things, and both of them cost money if you get them wrong.
First, the City of Tyler requires a permit to replace a roof, and contractors have to register with the city before they can pull one. Any contractor who waves that away is telling you something useful about themselves. Second, since 2024 your roofer cannot negotiate your insurance claim for you unless they also hold a public adjuster licence. That came out of a case brought by a Tyler company, Stonewater Roofing, which the Texas Supreme Court decided in the Department of Insurance's favour. Your roofer can document the damage and meet the adjuster on the roof. They cannot argue the settlement.
Here is how the top of the list compares on the things you can actually verify.
| Company | Independent record | Best for |
| Tyler Roofing Company | BBB accredited 1986, builder association member | Long-record residential and commercial, custom sheet metal |
| Cable's Roofing | RCAT, two chambers, TABA, BBB 2013 | The all-round residential job |
| AVCO Roofing | GAF commercial directory, RCAT, BBB 2007 | Commercial and flat roofs |
| Stonewater Roofing | GAF Master Elite President's Club | GAF shingle warranties and difficult buildings |
| Advantage Roofing | Owens Corning contractor directory | An Owens Corning platinum-level warranty |
| Steele Roofing | RCAT licence, chamber member | Owner-run job, emergency tarping |
Timing matters more here than in most trades. East Texas took a serious hailstorm on 20 April 2026, and the Better Business Bureau's East Texas office issued its usual warning afterwards about contractors going door to door. Its advice is worth repeating. Never pay in full up front, take at least three bids written against the same scope, and treat an unannounced knock as a reason to slow down rather than speed up.
What should you do next?
Call two of the top four and get both to put the manufacturer system, the warranty term and the workmanship term in writing. If you are insuring the job, do that before you talk numbers with your adjuster, because the estimates are what the conversation runs on.
If you are outside Smith County, we have the same treatment for roofers in Sulphur Springs and for roofers in Paris. Everything else we have published for this city sits on the Tyler guide, and the rest of the state's roofing coverage is on the roofers hub.