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Repair
Storm Damage
Assessment and documentation of wind and hail damage, photographed and written up while the evidence is still on the roof.
What this involvesCedar Park · Lakeway · Leander
Metal roofing and stormwork in the HillCountry north-west of Austin.
Cedar Hollow Roofing has worked on roofs across Cedar Park, Lakeway and Leander since 2011. We survey the roof, photograph what we find, and put it in writing before anything is sold.
Illustration — not this company’s own work
About Cedar Hollow Roofing
Cedar Hollow Roofing fits metal roofing and handles storm damage, hail damage, roof replacement and roof repair. Texas licence RCT-114820. If there is an active leak, start with an inspection: we tell you what we found and what we based that on, and the photographs are yours either way.
- 01Storm Damage
- 02Hail Damage
- 03Metal Roofing
- 04Roof Replacement
What we take on
What we lead with, and the specific work underneath it.
The order is ours. The 3 below are where most conversations start; the 2 after them are the particular jobs those turn into once somebody has been up and looked. All 5 are work we take on.
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Repair
Hail Damage
Hail bruising is often invisible from the ground and still shortens a roof's life. Assessment and documentation of impact damage across each elevation.
What this involves03
Replacement
Metal Roofing
Standing seam or metal panel systems. A longer service life and a different detailing discipline, particularly at penetrations and terminations.
What this involvesBefore you call anybody
What is the roof actually telling you?
Six things you can see from the ground, from a window, or from inside the roof space. None of them decides anything on its own — together they tell somebody where to start looking.
Shingles lifted, cracked or missing
Usually wind, age, or fasteners that have let go. One or two after a storm is a repair. The same thing across several elevations is the covering telling you it is finishing.
Granules in the gutter
The mineral surface is what protects the mat underneath from sunlight. A little after a new roof is normal; a steady accumulation years in usually means the surface is wearing out.
A stain on a ceiling or a wall
By the time it is visible inside, water has usually been travelling along timber for a while. The stain marks where it arrived, not where it got in — which is why patching the mark rarely works.
Metal lifting at a wall or a chimney
Flashing seals every junction the shingles cannot. A great many leaks turn out to be a flashing detail rather than a failed shingle, which is good news: it is usually the cheaper of the two.
Daylight or damp in the roof space
Light coming through means a gap. Damp without light can mean condensation from poor ventilation rather than a leak — the two look similar from below and are fixed very differently.
A roof line that has stopped being straight
Sagging between rafters usually means the sheathing has taken water over a long period. This is the one on the list that stops being a surface job, and the one worth looking at soonest.
None of this is a diagnosis, and it is not meant to be — you cannot tell a worn surface from a failed detail without getting onto the roof. What it is for is knowing whether what you are seeing is worth somebody’s attention.
Ask somebody to look at itRepair, or replace
The question nearly everybody arrives with.
It is rarely a choice between two products. It is one judgement with two ends, and most roofs sit somewhere along it. Here is what the judgement actually turns on.
RepairReplace
Almost every roof sits somewhere along here rather than at an end.
Nothing here decides it.
Answer what you can and the line will show which end of the conversation you are nearer. It is a way of understanding the question, not an answer to it.
This is not a diagnosis and it is not a quote. A roof is decided by somebody getting onto it and looking at the deck, the flashings and the valleys.
Have somebody look at itWhat is actually up there
A roof is more than the visible shingles.
From the ground you can see exactly one of these layers. Almost everything that decides whether a roof keeps water out — and how expensive it is when it stops — is one of the four underneath it.
- 01
Shingles
The only layer you can see from the ground, and the one that takes the weather. When somebody says a roof looks fine, this is what they are looking at.
- 02
Underlayment
A water-resistant layer laid over the deck before the shingles go on. It is the second line: what keeps water out when wind drives it under the covering.
- 03
Flashing
Metal at every junction — where the roof meets a wall, a chimney, a vent, or itself in a valley. A great many leaks are a flashing detail rather than a failed shingle.
- 04
Decking
The structural sheathing everything above is fastened to. Once water has been sitting on it, the repair stops being a surface job.
- 05
Rafters and ventilation
What carries the load, and the airflow that keeps the underside of the deck dry. Ventilation problems tend to show up as roof problems years later.
What we can show you
A credential you can check.
- Master Elite ContractorGAFME-88421
Recent work
The most recent one we can show you.
Every one of these is our own work on a real property, published with the owner's permission.
How it goes
Five steps, and none of them is a surprise.
The order matters more than it sounds: everything here happens before anybody is asked to spend anything.
Start at step one- 01
You tell us what is happening
A stain on a ceiling is enough to start with. Send the request or call — either way somebody calls you back to set a time. Nothing on this website holds a slot in a calendar, and it will not pretend to.
- 02
Somebody comes and looks
The covering, the flashings, the valleys and the penetrations, plus the roof space where it can be reached safely. Photographed while we are up there rather than described afterwards.
- 03
You get what we found
The photographs and the findings are yours, whether or not you go ahead with any work.
- 04
Then it is storm damage or hail damage or metal roofing or roof replacement or roof repair
Which of the two it is comes out of the condition, not out of a price list. If it is the cheaper one we will say so — that is the whole point of looking before quoting.
- 05
The work, in writing first
What a specific roof needs is established at the visit, and any price is given in writing afterwards. Nothing starts before you have that in front of you.
Where we work
Cedar Park, Lakeway and Leander.
That is the coverage as it stands — the towns on the record, not a radius drawn around them. If you are just outside, ask before you assume the answer is no.
Service areas in fullAsked before the first visit
Questions we get before the first visit.
The ones that come up on nearly every first call, answered in our own words.
Before you call
How quickly can somebody look at a leak?
We are on the phones Monday to Friday 07:30-17:30 and Saturday mornings, and we keep space in the week for leaks rather than booking it out in advance.
Before you call
Why metal rather than shingle?
In this part of the Hill Country it is usually about hail and heat rather than looks. We will tell you where shingle is the better answer for the money, because on plenty of roofs it is.
The visit
Do you charge for the first look?
No. We look, we photograph it, and we tell you what we found.
Where do you work?
Cedar Park, Lakeway and Leander.
The next step
Start with an inspection.
Tell us what you are seeing. Somebody calls back to arrange a time, goes up, photographs what is there, and tells you what it needs — including when the answer is that it does not need much.
Cedar Park · Lakeway · Leander