Roof Repair in 78734

The permit record for 78734

Roof activity in 78734 is flat: 1 permits in 2024–2026 against 1 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 2010.

Roof permits in 78734, year by year

What kind of work gets permitted in 78734

Not every roof permit means the same job. In 78734, 38% are filed as addition and remodel — an extension plus work on what was already there. Read it as a hint about the local trade. Where one category dominates, the contractors nearby have tuned themselves to it.

• Addition and Remodel — 3 permits (38%)
• Remodel — 2 permits (25%)
• Repair — 2 permits (25%)
• New — 1 permits (13%)

Most of what happens in 78734 is work on roofs that already exist. That is what a settled part of Austin looks like, and it is exactly where a second quote pays for itself — repair pricing varies far more between contractors than new-build pricing does.

What people in 78734 are actually declaring

78734 has only 2 permits on file for roof-only residential work with a declared value — too few to average without misleading you. Across Austin as a whole there are 600, and they fall like this: under $10,000, 256; $10,000 to $20,000, 116; $20,000 to $30,000, 102; $30,000 to $50,000, 49; over $50,000, 77. Six in ten land under $20,000.

A thin local record is not the same as a cheap area. It usually means 78734 has few detached houses, or that most roof work here happens as part of larger remodels and never gets filed as a roof job on its own.

Contractors based in 78734

2 roofing and exterior contractors have a registered business address inside 78734. Every date below is the first day that business reported sales to the state of Texas. It is the closest thing to a birth certificate a contractor has.

The longest-established is Westside Roofing, LLC, trading since June 30, 2015 — 11 years. That is long enough to have been through at least one serious hail event in this city, which is the thing that sorts roofing businesses out.

Being listed here is not a recommendation. It means the business appears in a public state file under a roofing, sheet metal or exterior classification. Texas does not license roofers at state level, so before anyone climbs a ladder for you, ask for a current certificate of insurance and actually read it.

When roofs in 78734 come due

Austin’s permit record starts in 2006, and since then 118 new homes have been permitted in 78734. When they went up matters more than how many, because roofs go on with the house and come off together:

• 2006-2010 — 24 homes (20%)
• 2011-2015 — 43 homes (36%)
• 2016-2020 — 20 homes (17%)
• 2021-2026 — 31 homes (26%)

The heaviest stretch was 2011-2015, with 36% of them. Only 24 homes here date from the 2006–2010 wave, so 78734 does not have a large block of houses hitting the end of their first roof at the same moment. Replacements arrive here one at a time.

78734 against the rest of West Austin

West Austin covers 10 ZIP codes and they do not behave alike. The other 9 average 266 roof permits each; 78734 has 8 — below the local average, at roughly 0.0 times it. The busiest of its neighbours is 78731, with 817.

Fewer permits than the neighbours usually means fewer houses rather than better roofs — and in areas with more rentals, a lot of repair work never reaches the permit desk at all.

What this means if you live here

If your roof in 78734 is doing something it did not do last year — a stain on a ceiling, grit in the gutters, a shingle in the yard after a windy night — the cheapest moment to look at it is now, before the next storm turns a repair into a replacement.