Roof Repair in 78746

The permit record for 78746

Roof activity in 78746 is flat: 49 permits in 2024–2026 against 50 in 2021–2023. A steady number year after year is what a settled neighbourhood looks like — roofs come up for replacement as they age out, a few at a time, without a storm pushing everybody onto the same schedule. The high point was 2017.

Roof permits in 78746, year by year

What those 416 permits actually were

Not every roof permit means the same job. In 78746, 50% are filed as remodel — the roof being touched as part of a wider job on an existing house. It changes who you should be calling. Crews that live on new construction quote differently from crews that live on tear-offs, and neither is wrong.

• Remodel — 207 permits (50%)
• Addition and Remodel — 99 permits (24%)
• Repair — 59 permits (14%)
• New — 37 permits (9%)

Almost none of this is new construction. Everything here is somebody dealing with a roof that has been on the house a while, which puts the emphasis on the inspection rather than the installation.

Roof prices in 78746, from the permit file

Most cost pages for Austin quote a national average with the city name dropped in. This one uses 78746’s own filings. The city’s permit record holds 9 residential jobs in this ZIP code that are roof work and nothing else — reroofs, replacements and repairs, not remodels that happened to touch the roof — each with a declared value. They fall like this:

• under $10,000 — 1 permits (11%)
• $10,000 to $20,000 — 1 permits (11%)
• $30,000 to $50,000 — 2 permits (22%)
• over $50,000 — 5 permits (56%)

The biggest single group is over $50,000, at 56% of them. The average across all 9 is $90,708. That is well above the citywide average of $27,916 — roughly 3.2 times it. Expensive ZIP codes are not expensive because the labour costs more. They are expensive because the houses are bigger, the roofs are steeper and more cut up, and the covering is more often metal, tile or slate rather than asphalt shingle.

A permit value is a statement of intent, not a receipt. It is still far better evidence than a national average, because at least it was written by somebody standing in front of the actual house.

Roofers on the state register in 78746

3 roofing and exterior contractors have a registered business address inside 78746. These dates are exact because they are state filings, not marketing. A profile that says “over 20 years” is rounding; this is the day the business started reporting sales.

The longest-established is Exterior Innovations, LLC, trading since May 1, 2021 — 5 years. That is not long. New is not the same as bad, but a young business has no track record here yet, and a warranty is only worth the company behind it. One of these registered in the last two years.

Read the table as a directory, not a shortlist. Texas has no state roofing licence to check, which puts the burden on you: ask for proof of general liability and workers’ compensation before the job, not after.

78746 by the age of its houses

Austin’s permit record starts in 2006, and since then 1,726 new homes have been permitted in 78746. When they went up matters more than how many, because roofs go on with the house and come off together:

• 2006-2010 — 349 homes (20%)
• 2011-2015 — 422 homes (24%)
• 2016-2020 — 390 homes (23%)
• 2021-2026 — 565 homes (33%)

The heaviest stretch was 2021-2026, with 33% of them. The 2006–2010 block, 349 homes, is the one that matters. They were roofed at the same time and they are aging at the same rate, which is why streets like these get worked door to door after a storm — the contractors know the arithmetic too.

What this means if you live here

Roofs in Central Texas rarely fail politely. They go from fine to leaking during one storm, usually at night. If anything on yours has been bothering you, getting somebody up there while the weather is dry is the whole trick.