Dayton Design-Speed Roofing Services — Insured

Yes. Start with the part you can actually look up, and with an admission most roofers here would rather skip. Baytown does not require a permit to replace shingles.

The Building Services Division at the Planning and Development Services Department lists shingle replacement by itself among the jobs that need no permit at all, and pulls the work back under review only once the deck is involved.

On a straight tear-off and re-cover, no inspector is coming, and nobody at the city ever sees what went down over your rafters.

We still build to the code Baytown adopted, the International Residential Code, 2015 edition, in force for permits dated November 1, 2020 and later, at an ultimate design wind speed of 150 mph, because on this coast that standard is the point whether or not a permit compels it.

No roofing license sits behind any of it, because this state does not have one. The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation runs programs for dozens of trades; roofing is simply not one of them. That Roofing Contractors Association of Texas badge some companies advertise?

A paid industry membership, not anything government issued, Two policies, and you should insist on seeing both: commercial general liability, plus workers' comp covering every crew member who sets foot on your property. We have the agent issue those certificates straight to you, since a document forwarded by a contractor is evidence of nothing.

Neither policy is mandatory here, and no surety bond is either.

We are not bonded, and we will not pretend otherwise, and every job in Dayton is backed by workmanship covered in writing on a document of its own, wholly apart from what the shingle maker warrants, handed over on the final day with the permit record, the wrapper photographs, the product registration and every signed lien release.

Where Dayton issues a permit for this work we pull it in our own name; not every jurisdiction we serve requires one, and we tell you which yours is.

No. Dayton is inside our regular roofing service area, so the free estimate and the pricing are the same as they are in Baytown. Crews are in Liberty County most weeks already.

We can usually walk a Dayton property within a couple of days and put the written free estimate in your hands the same week. Start dates depend on material lead times and, where Dayton requires a permit, on how long that review takes — we tell you both before you commit to anything.