Edinburg Roof Pros provides professional roofing services in McAllen, TX — Hidalgo, population 142,210. From residential roof installation and commercial roof installation to wind damage roofing, our insured team serves McAllen homes and businesses.
McAllen property owners near the International Museum of Art & Science on Nolana Avenue, the South Texas College main campus count on Edinburg Roof Pros for roofing contractor in McAllen. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Edinburg to every job in McAllen, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (866) 730-0431 for a free roofing estimate in McAllen, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation. Se habla español.
Roofing in McAllen, TX
On 20 April 2012 a member of the public reported softball-size hail at McAllen High School, and the storm database logged that stone at 4.50 inches. Nothing else in the Hidalgo, Cameron, Willacy or Starr County record since 2008 comes near it. Three weeks earlier, on 29 March, an hour of baseball hail driven by 70 to 75 mph wind had already crossed the same neighborhoods.
The city commission's preliminary count after that March night put 1,100 homes and more than 60 businesses among the damaged, along with 26 municipal facilities including the then-new public library and civic center. Hail drifted four feet deep in places. Any covering here that predates 2012 and has never been opened up carries some part of that afternoon in it.
McAllen's published permit fee schedule shows an effective date of 1 October 2016 and an update stamp of 25 July 2017, and it contains no roofing line item at all. A reroof falls under remodels and alterations, billed as the greater of a $48 minimum or 0.0060 times construction value. Confirm the current figure with Development Services before you accept anyone's permit allowance.
Median year built across the 55,385 housing units is 1995, and 25.4 percent went up before 1980, so second-layer tear-offs are routine work rather than an exception. What is genuinely unusual is that 16.1 percent of units stand in structures holding five or more dwellings, the largest apartment share anywhere we work. That turns one roof into a scheduled sequence of them.
Only 3.7 percent of McAllen units are manufactured housing, against 34.8 percent in Alamo. Practically, that means most work here is conventional sheathing over trusses, and we can price deck replacement at a per-sheet rate agreed in writing before the first bundle comes off rather than discovering it on the second morning.
The state's designated windstorm catastrophe area does not reach Hidalgo County, so no windstorm certificate attaches to a McAllen roof and no inspector has to sign one. We would rather say that than sell paperwork this county does not require. Reflectance, intake ventilation and fastener pattern are where the money actually goes on a roof this far south.
One clarification worth making early: on 26 July 2020 a canal overtopped its banks on South 23rd Street and put standing water across south McAllen roads. Water at grade is a drainage question, not a covering question, and we say which one you are dealing with before a scope gets written.
What we take on in McAllen
Edinburg Roof Pros covers the same range of work in McAllen that we do in Edinburg — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Residential Roof Installation — Something gets sold in the Valley that is worth correcting before you buy a new roof. Hidalgo County is not inside the state windstorm program's designated catastrophe area.
- Commercial Roof Installation — For a commercial building in Hidalgo County, the roof is a thermal decision before it is a waterproofing one. A dark low-slope membrane over a warehouse or a retail box absorbs enormous energy through a South Texas summer, and the cooling equipment underneath pays for it daily.
- Roof Replacement — Replacement is the right call when the covering has run out of usable life, not when it reaches a birthday. In Edinburg that distinction matters, because the number on the shingle wrapper and the number of summers the roof will actually give you sit very far apart.
- Roof Repair — Roofs here do not usually die of weather. They die of sun.
- Asphalt Shingle Roofs — Asphalt shingle is still right for most Edinburg houses, and we install a great deal of it. What we argue with is where the extra money goes, because the premium designer laminate that costs the most is rarely what adds the most years in this climate.
- Cool Roof Installation — In the mid-Valley this is a real purchase rather than an upgrade. Edinburg runs a cooling season that most of the country does not have a word for, and roof reflectance is one of the few envelope choices that pays here.
See the full list of Edinburg services, or call (866) 730-0431.
About McAllen, TX — and why local matters here
McAllen sits in Hidalgo with a population of roughly 142,210, close enough to Edinburg that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include the International Museum of Art & Science on Nolana Avenue, the South Texas College main campus.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. McAllen properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Hidalgo, and a roofing contractor who works the area weekly already knows what fails locally and what holds up. That is the difference between a bid and an accurate bid.
Getting a free estimate in McAllen
Call (866) 730-0431 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in McAllen, usually within a couple of days. You get a written, itemized free estimate with materials and scope spelled out — no verbal ballpark, no pressure, and no charge whether you hire us or not. Se habla español.
We also serve Mission, TX and the rest of Hidalgo County and the mid-Valley. Everything starts at the Edinburg Roof Pros homepage.
Popular services in McAllen: Residential Roof Installation and Commercial Roof Installation.
We also serve Mission, TX and Hidalgo County and the mid-Valley.