Edinburg Roof Pros provides professional roofing services in Roma, TX — Starr, population 11,561. From residential roof installation and commercial roof installation to wind damage roofing, our insured team serves Roma homes and businesses.
Roma property owners near the Roma-Ciudad Miguel Alemán International Bridge, the historic Roma-Los Saenz town center count on Edinburg Roof Pros for roofing contractor in Roma. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Edinburg to every job in Roma, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (866) 730-0431 for a free roofing estimate in Roma, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation. Se habla español.
Roofing in Roma, TX
Roma publishes a threshold most Texas cities do not: a residential roof covering permit is required when you are replacing 25 percent or more. Below that line it is a repair. Above it, the city wants an application. That single sentence answers the question most homeowners here are actually asking, and it is on the city's own permits page.
The city also states that, with the exception of irrigation work, only a contractor registered with the City of Roma may be issued a trade permit, and that a homeowner may be issued a permit to do the work themselves on proof of ownership. Both facts are worth knowing before you accept a bid from someone passing through.
Roma sits in Starr County, which is outside the designated windstorm catastrophe area, so no windstorm certificate attaches to a roof here. What did happen is documented: during Hurricane Hanna on 26 July 2020 a tin roof was blown off a service station in Roma, and gusts to 64 mph were measured in northeast Starr County that morning.
Otherwise the record is short. A 50 mph gust with $5,000 in damage on 14 May 2008, and a 52 mph gust with a one-inch hailstone on 15 April 2012. In Los Saenz, the other half of the historic town, a two-inch stone fell on 25 May 2020 and a 1.75-inch stone with a 56 mph gust on 28 April 2023.
Housing here is mid-aged and modest in value. Median year built is 1993, 26.6 percent of the 4,134 units predate 1980, and median value is $94,400. Owner occupancy is 55.2 percent, the lowest of the two Starr County towns we cover, so a good share of these are rental roofs.
The historic district changes what is appropriate. Sandstone and brick buildings with low parapets need counterflashing cut into the masonry and lead or copper details rather than surface-mounted aluminum and sealant. We will say when a job needs that treatment and price it honestly rather than pretending a standard detail will hold.
Ninety-one percent of Roma households speak Spanish at home and 37.5 percent of residents report speaking English less than very well, the second-highest rate on this list. Documents, scopes and remaining-life reports are issued in Spanish here as the default.
About Roma, TX — and why local matters here
Roma sits in Starr with a population of roughly 11,561, close enough to Edinburg that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include the Roma-Ciudad Miguel Alemán International Bridge, the historic Roma-Los Saenz town center.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Roma properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Starr, 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 Roma
Call (866) 730-0431 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Roma, 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 Raymondville, TX and the rest of Hidalgo County and the mid-Valley. Everything starts at the Edinburg Roof Pros homepage.
The roofing jobs Roma calls us for
Edinburg Roof Pros covers the same range of work in Roma that we do in Edinburg — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Metal Roofing — Metal is the material we recommend most often to owners who plan to stay. It costs more than shingle at installation and less than shingle over any long holding period, and the reason is that it does not depend on asphalt chemistry that this climate is steadily undoing.
- Roof Leak Repair — Most leaks we trace in Edinburg are not failures of the roof field. They are failures of rubber and sealant, small parts that the sun destroys years before the shingles or tiles around them are finished.
- Roof Skylight Installation — A skylight in the Rio Grande Valley is a hole in a roof that faces the strongest sun in Texas. That does not make it a bad idea, but it does mean the glazing specification matters here more than the flashing does, and the flashing already matters a great deal.
- Storm Damage Restoration — Tropical systems reach the Valley as rain events more often than wind events. Dolly in 2008 and Hanna in 2020 both put a foot or more of water over Hidalgo and Cameron Counties, and what that finds is every marginal detail a roof already had.
- Tile Roofing — Tile deserves a stronger recommendation in the Rio Grande Valley than it gets in most of the country, and the reason is structural rather than aesthetic. A tile roof is the one common assembly that puts an air gap between the sun-facing surface and the deck.
- Wind Damage Roofing — Wind is a real peril here, not a talking point. Beulah in 1967, Dolly in 2008 and Hanna in 2020 all reached the Rio Grande Valley with hurricane force behind them, and the flat terrain between the coast and Edinburg gives that wind very little to slow it down.
See the full list of Edinburg services, or call (866) 730-0431.
Popular services in Roma: Residential Roof Installation and Commercial Roof Installation.
We also serve Raymondville, TX and Hidalgo County and the mid-Valley.