Roofing & Foundation Repair in Dallas, TX

Close to half of the homes in Dallas were built before 1980, and the median Dallas home was built in 1981, according to Census survey data. That means a lot of Dallas roofs have already been through decades of North Texas hail, and a lot of slabs have been riding the same shifting clay for 40 years or more. Different Roofing is one of the roofing companies Dallas homeowners call for both ends of the house: roof repair and roof replacement up top, foundation repair down below. We are based in The Colony, so our crews are closest to Far North Dallas, North Dallas, Preston Hollow and Lake Highlands, and we serve the rest of the city too. Inspections are free.

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Recent Dallas Job: Joyce Way

On Joyce Way in Dallas, we replaced an architectural shingle roof with Class 4 impact-resistant architectural shingles, finished the ridges with a high-profile ridge cap, and installed new gutters. It is a steep roof with several gables and dormers, and the new dark shingles give the white brick a sharp, clean outline.

Dallas Neighborhoods We Are Closest To

• Far North Dallas. The part of Dallas north of LBJ Freeway (I-635), including Bent Tree, Glen Abbey, Prestonwood and Northwood Hills. Many homes here went up between the mid-1960s and the 1990s, from midcentury modern and contemporary designs to traditional brick homes and estate homes on half-acre lots.
• North Dallas. Generally the stretch of the city north of Northwest Highway, built out mostly in the late 20th century as low-density neighborhoods of single-family homes.
• Preston Hollow. Roughly between Northwest Highway, Midway Road, Royal Lane and Hillcrest Road. Building took off in the 1930s with Tudor estates and Charles Dilbeck homes, followed by ranch houses through the 1950s. Since the 1980s many of those ranches have been replaced with new homes of 6,000 square feet or more, many on lots of about an acre. The name comes from its creeks and wooded hollows, and big trees over a roof mean limbs and debris after strong storms.
• Lake Highlands. Between Richardson to the north, Garland to the east and White Rock Lake to the south, made up of dozens of subdivisions built mostly in the late 20th century. Old Lake Highlands, near the lake, has about 1,700 homes, from houses around 80 years old to brand-new rebuilds.

Dallas also has a history with wood shake roofs. In 1995, D Magazine reported four major wood-shingle roof fires in two years, and city leaders pushed for tougher roofing fire standards. If your home still has wood shakes, we can walk you through replacement options during a free inspection.

Dallas Hail and Wind History

NOAA’s National Weather Service has documented some of the storms that hit Dallas homes hardest:

• June 13, 2012: hail up to softball size (4.25 inches) fell across parts of Dallas and Collin counties, including around NorthPark Center. The Insurance Council of Texas estimated about $900 million in damage.
• October 20, 2019: an EF3 tornado with peak winds of 140 mph tracked 15.76 miles across North Dallas, from near Walnut Hill Lane and Harry Hines Boulevard through Preston Hollow and Northaven Road toward Richardson. About 3,000 homes and 1,000 businesses in Dallas were damaged, and the roof was torn off the Preston Royal shopping center.
• June 11–13, 2023: hail up to 2 inches was reported in southeast Dallas near Great Trinity Forest Way and US-175, with more 1- to 1.75-inch reports around the city over those three days.
• May 28, 2024: a morning windstorm with gusts near 80 mph tore through Dallas. The National Weather Service said the damage was more widespread than a weak tornado would cause, and about 190,000 Oncor customers in the city were still without power that night.
• March 25, 2025: hail up to 1.75 inches was reported near Dallas.

Wind damage often shows up as lifted, creased or missing shingles that start leaking months later. Hail bruises shingles and knocks off the granules that protect them. Either way, a free inspection tells you where your roof stands.

Roof Repair and Roof Replacement in Dallas

For roof repair in Dallas, we fix what the last storm did: replacing wind-blown shingles, stopping leaks, and tarping a roof the same day when it is open to the weather. We are open 24 hours, and in an emergency a crew can often be out within the hour. When a roof is past repair, roof replacement in Dallas with us usually takes one day: we tear off the old roof, install the new one, finish it with a high-profile ridge cap, and run magnet sweeps for nails before we leave. Our guide on how long a roof replacement takes walks through that day step by step.

After hail or wind, we document the damage with photos and measurements and meet your insurance adjuster at the property. Every roof we install carries our lifetime workmanship warranty, and financing is available, as low as 0%. Our roof replacement cost guide for DFW shows typical price ranges and what moves them. If you want a tougher roof for the next hailstorm, read about Class 4 impact-resistant roofing, or see our storm and hail damage repair page.

Foundation Repair in Dallas: Living on Blackland Prairie Clay

Most of Dallas sits on the Blackland Prairie, and the soil under many Dallas homes is Houston Black clay, the official Texas state soil. It shrinks and cracks in dry weather, with cracks that can open half an inch to four inches wide and more than a foot deep, then swells again when the rain comes back. Under downtown Dallas, that clay sits on Austin Chalk limestone and then Eagle Ford shale, which also swells when it gets wet. Every wet and dry cycle pushes and pulls on the foundation of a house.

That is why foundation repair in Dallas is so common. Watch for doors that stick or won’t latch, stair-step cracks in brick, cracks in drywall above doors and windows, gaps around window frames, and floors that slope. Our foundation repair starts with a free inspection: we walk the home inside and out, check how level the floors are, and look at the drainage around the slab. We install all three main pier types: pressed or poured concrete pilings, steel push piers and helical piers. Every pier we install carries a lifetime warranty. A typical job of about 20 concrete pilings averages $10,000 to $15,000; steel push piers and helical piers are priced after the inspection.

Texas A&M AgriLife’s advice for clay soil helps protect a slab between repairs: keep watering steady and moderate during dry spells, slope the soil away from the house, make sure gutters drain away from the foundation, and keep thirsty tree roots out from under the house.

HOAs and Neighborhood Rules in Dallas

Many older Dallas neighborhoods don’t have the kind of mandatory HOA you find in newer suburbs. Preston Hollow is a patchwork of separate neighborhoods, Northwood Hills has a homeowners association that residents join, and the Prestonwood homeowners association has served its area since 1976 under deed restrictions recorded for each addition. Closer to downtown, areas like Lakewood, the M Streets and Greenway Parks are conservation districts with their own rules for exterior changes. Whatever applies on your street, we follow HOA and neighborhood rules and can give you the product details you need for an approval request.

Solar in Dallas

Most of Dallas is in Oncor’s service area, so you choose a retail electric provider, and the plan you pick decides what the extra power from your panels earns. Some plans credit it fully, some partly and some not at all, so compare buyback terms before you sign. Many Dallas homes, especially in older neighborhoods, need a new roof before panels go up, and we check the roof first so you are not paying to remove and reinstall panels a few years later. If you are in an HOA, it can review the panel layout, but Texas law generally keeps it from banning solar outright. Our solar partner installs under the Different Roofing name, and the federal residential credit ended after 2025, so we size systems on your actual usage. Inquire for pricing. See our solar installation page.

Commercial Roofing in Dallas

Commercial roofing in Dallas covers more than a century of buildings. In Deep Ellum, brick warehouses and factory buildings from the 1880s through the 1920s, including the 1914 Ford assembly plant on Canton Street, now hold lofts, offices and music venues. The Design District, between I-35E and the Trinity River levee, started out as a warehouse district before it filled with showrooms and galleries, and the Stemmons Corridor to the northwest mixes industrial buildings, hotels and office towers that make up about a fifth of the city’s tax base. In North Dallas, neighborhood shopping centers took the worst of the 2019 tornado, which tore large sections of roof off the Preston Royal shopping center.

Many of those older warehouse and storefront roofs are built-up or modified bitumen, sometimes with a second roof on top of the first, hidden behind parapet walls where water has to find a scupper or drain. For flat roof repair in Dallas, we trace the leak to where the water actually gets in, check the parapet flashing and the curbs around rooftop units, and cut a core to see whether the insulation is wet before we recommend a repair, a coating or a new roof. Commercial roof repair in Dallas after a windstorm like the one on May 28, 2024 often means lifted edge metal and membrane peeled back at the perimeter, and we can make that watertight quickly.

For metal roofing in Dallas, we install R-panel and PBR panel on warehouses and shops and standing seam on canopies and steeper sections, and we restore or retrofit aging metal roofs. Our commercial work includes a 36,000-square-foot Class 4 church roof and a restaurant roof, and every Dallas commercial inspection is free. After hail, we document the damage and meet your adjuster on the roof. See our commercial roofing page, or read about modified bitumen and built-up roofing, PVC and EPDM roofing and commercial metal roofing.

More Home Services in Dallas

Because we do more than roofs, one call can cover the rest of the house:

• Solar installation and metal roofing
• Gutters, gutter guards and windows
• Fencing, patios and general contracting
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Nearby areas we serve: Richardson, Addison, Farmers Branch, Carrollton, Plano, and all of North Texas.