Roof leaking? Let's stop the water first.

If your roof is leaking right now, do these five things

Before any roofer arrives, the next ten minutes are about limiting the damage inside your home:

• ✓ Move what matters. Get furniture, electronics, and anything irreplaceable out from under the leak.
• ✓ Catch the water. Buckets, trash cans, towels — and a tarp or plastic sheet over what can't be moved.
• ✓ If the ceiling is bulging, relieve it. A small hole poked at the center of a sagging, water-filled ceiling bubble lets the water drain into your bucket instead of bringing the whole section down.
• ✓ Photograph everything. The ceiling, the water, the damaged belongings, and — from the ground — the roof. Time-stamped photos are the start of your insurance documentation.
• ✓ Stay off the roof. A wet roof in bad weather is how homeowners get hurt. The roof is our job.

Emergency tarping and dry-in: stopping the damage

The first visit in a roof emergency usually isn't the permanent fix — it's making sure the damage stops getting worse. We tarp or dry-in the damaged section properly: secured, sealed, and able to ride out the next round of weather, not a loose sheet of plastic that blows off by Thursday.

Just as important: while we're up there, we document everything we find — overview shots, close-ups of the damage, and the surrounding roof condition. That order matters. Damage documented before cleanup and repairs is exactly what your insurance adjuster needs to see, and it's much harder to reconstruct after the fact.

Will insurance pay for emergency repairs?

Texas homeowners policies generally require you to take reasonable steps to prevent further damage after a covered loss — it's often called the duty to mitigate. Reasonable temporary measures like emergency tarping are typically part of a storm claim for exactly that reason. Keep your receipts and your photos.

Two honest caveats. First, coverage decisions are always your insurer's, not ours — what we control is doing the temporary work properly and documenting the damage thoroughly. Second, a tarp doesn't commit you to anything: you can have us stop the water and still take your time on the bigger decision.

If the leak traces back to a storm, you may have a claim worth filing. Our guide to whether you have a claim and the step-by-step Texas filing process walk through exactly how that works — and it's the part of roofing we specialize in.

After the tarp: fixing it for real

A tarp buys time; it isn't a roof. Once the water is stopped, we scope the permanent fix honestly. Sometimes that's a targeted repair — a pipe boot, a run of flashing, a section of shingles — and we'll say so. Sometimes the leak is the symptom of a roof that's done, and patching it again is throwing money at a roof that will leak somewhere else next storm. Either way, you get a straight answer and a clear price before any work starts.

If it's a repair, our roof repair page covers how we diagnose and fix leaks at the source. If the damage came from wind or hail, our storm and hail damage page covers the full insurance-restoration path — inspection, documentation, the adjuster meeting, and a complete-system replacement if the claim supports one.

When we can get to you: any hour

We answer the phone 24/7, and for an active leak we come out — night, Sunday, holidays. Not an answering service that takes a message and calls you back Monday. A real person, and then a truck.

That's the part most Houston roofers won't put in writing, and it's the whole reason to keep this number in your phone. We're family-owned and local, so the call goes to people who live here rather than a national dispatch centre three states away.

To be precise about what 24/7 covers: an active leak or storm emergency gets a response any hour. Estimates, scheduling, and the permanent-repair conversation happen during office hours, Monday to Saturday, 7 AM to 7 PM. Nobody needs a quote at 3 AM — they need the water stopped.

We serve Houston and the surrounding metro — Memorial, the Heights, Bellaire, Spring Branch, River Oaks, Katy, Cypress, Spring, Tomball, The Woodlands, Pearland, and Sugar Land.