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On a house built thirty or forty years ago, the shingles you can see are only part of the story. How many layers are up there, whether the deck boards are still sound, and what shape the flashing is in after decades of Texas summers decide whether a repair will hold or the roof is due. We are a woman-owned company with our office in Frisco, just north of Plano, and we price work only after we have looked at it up close.
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A woman-owned roofer from next-door Frisco
Leanne Tolbert owns SunTex, and the company is 100% woman-owned and operated. Danny Gutowski manages our DFW sales, and project managers such as Eric Sherman run jobs day to day. Beth Keller handles operations, and Suade Sherman manages the office at 12800 Westridge Blvd in Frisco, where scheduling, paperwork and your calls are handled. Every one of those names and titles is listed on our About page, so you know who you are dealing with before anyone climbs a ladder at your house.
Some older Plano roofs need one problem fixed. Others need to come off entirely. Here is the work we take on in each case, and why the age of the house changes it.
When the damage is local, such as a cracked pipe boot, a few missing shingles or a piece of flashing that has pulled away, we repair it and photograph the result. We will also tell you plainly if the repair is buying a season on a roof that is due, so the choice is yours with the facts in front of you.
When a roof is past repair, the crew removes all of the old roofing: shingles or tiles, the old felt or underlayment, and the flashing at chimneys, valleys and vent pipes. If a past owner laid new shingles over old ones, both layers go. Covering old layers can void a new roof's warranty and mask deeper problems, which is why the tear-off comes first.
On a new roof, fresh drip edge runs along the eaves and rakes, ice and water shield goes into the valleys and other weak spots, and pipe jacks, chimney flashing and ridge vents are replaced. Seams and penetrations are where heavy rain gets in, so they get new parts rather than a patch.
Call (214) 766-3669 or send the form. The year the house was built, whether you know of an earlier roof, and any leaks or storm dates you remember all help us plan the visit.
We come to your Plano address, assess the roof and photograph what we find. You get a written estimate and an honest call on whether you need a repair, a new roof, or nothing yet.
Once you approve the scope and the material, a dedicated project manager books the crew, keeps you posted on timing and walks the finished work with you.
Plano's housing is older than that of its neighbors to the north, and the Census Bureau's figures show by how much. The 2020 to 2024 American Community Survey counts 117,686 housing units in Plano, and the median one was built in 1993. Of those, 25,450 went up in the 1980s and 33,707 in the 1990s, about half the city in two decades, and 80,819 in all were built before 2000 (U.S. Census Bureau, ACS table B25034). That is 68.7% of Plano's homes.
There is real value under those roofs. The median owner-occupied home is worth $465,900, and owners live in 64,016 of the city's 112,438 occupied homes.
Storms cross Plano's borders without slowing down. On April 11, 2016, the day 2-inch hail fell at Legacy Drive and Chase Oaks Drive, NOAA also logged 2-inch hail in Allen and 70 mph gusts a mile west of Frisco. On May 28, 2024, the same day winds downed trees at Legacy and Independence, damaging wind tore across Lewisville. On May 24, 2011, a 70 mph gust estimated in Plano came the same day as ping pong ball hail near downtown Dallas. So the storm map we work from takes in Allen's hail-scarred rooftops, Frisco, where our office is, older Dallas houses, rentals and commercial roofs and Lewisville rentals and condos after the 2024 wind.
Plano is one stop on a service map that runs from North Texas down to Central Texas and Austin. If you live in Plano and want to know how old your roof really is, call (214) 766-3669.
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From residential and commercial roof replacement to urgent emergency roof repairs, our 5-star service speaks for itself.
We used them for Christmas lights and could not have been happier. The entire process was so simple and our lights looked amazing. Very high quality and didn’t have one light bulb out the entire season. Highly recommend using them for your holiday lighting!
Bailey Pullin
Hands down recommend Beth and Alex with Christmas Lights and roofing consultations. Their communication is on point! Excellent service through your whole experience. We have been using them for two years now and will continue! Thanks yall!
Carin Gonzales
Highly recommend. Merry and Bright by Suntex Roofing made our home merry and bright this holiday season and are now my permanent go-to for my holiday lighting needs.
Chad Mandrell
The other day I had James Rose from SunTex do a courtesy inspection of our roof they replaced a little over a year ago. Mr. Rose was professional and knowledgeable when discussing how the drone inspection reveals no flaws or damage to the roof. I would definitely recommend SunTex to anyone look to have roof work done.
kalonji singleton
Alex Keller with SunTex Roofing exceeded! SunTex gave us a great experience from start to finish. The entire crew protected our new windows, plants, AC units, garden structures and even pool. I HIGHLY recommend this Texas local roofing company.
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Teri Redwine
SunTex provides unmatched customer support and response times. We moved into a new house with the previous owners creating a massive hole upon moving out. SunTex came out immediately and provided a temporary patch to mitigate damage from an incoming storm. Then came back for the official repair a few days later.
Alex Chase
Leanne and her team do GREAT work! Fast and clean as they do your roof replacement process. Leanne and her team are very professional. They get the job done. We are very pleased with our new roof, cutters and the restoration of our fence after the Salado Tornado this past April.
Gary Schmiedekamp
We used them for Christmas lights and could not have been happier. The entire process was so simple and our lights looked amazing. Very high quality and didn’t have one light bulb out the entire season. Highly recommend using them for your holiday lighting!
Bailey Pullin
100% cannot recommend enough!!! So thankful for SunTex. They helped us every step the way. They educated me and worked with me. I would highly recommend them to anyone needing roof replacement or repairs. Their staff is amazing! Cannot thank them enough.
Juan Cruz
Inspection reports and seller disclosures do not always say when the roof went on. A free assessment with photos tells you what you actually have, and whether it needs a repair, a new roof or nothing yet.
We started SunTex in 2022, and we will not pretend we have been around longer. What we bring to Plano is a company that is 100% woman-owned and operated, an office next door in Frisco at the address on our Google listing, and named people on every job.
Older houses reward that kind of attention. A roof on a 1980s home can hide a second layer of shingles, patched decking and flashing from several rounds of repairs, and an estimate is only as good as the look that came before it. We photograph what we find and hand you the photos with the estimate, so you can see the problem the price is meant to fix, whether that is one cracked boot or a whole roof.
NOAA's Storm Events Database, the federal record of severe weather, holds 33 hail reports filed under Plano between 2010 and mid-2026. Twenty-four of them were an inch or larger, spread over 13 separate storm days (NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database). The narratives read like a Plano street map:
Even that count runs short. NOAA files each report under a nearby named place, and it logged a hen-egg hail report at Custer Road and Highway 121, which its own narrative places in north Plano, under Allen. Read these as the storms somebody measured, not every storm that reached your roof.
On an older Plano house, three questions decide the job. The first is whether the roof is the original. An original roof on a 1990s home has sat through every storm on the list above, and a later roof may have been laid straight over the first one. The second is the state of the decking, because water that slipped past tired shingles for years often shows up in the wood before it stains a ceiling. The third is insurance, since an older roof can be worth far less to an insurer than a new one, depending on the policy.
We answer all three in writing, with photos, before you decide anything, including whether a repair is still the sensible choice.
Hail and sun work as a pair on asphalt shingles. A hailstone knocks loose the mineral granules that shield the shingle from UV light and leaves a soft bruise that may not show from the ground. After that, the Texas sun keeps working on the exposed spot, and a roof that looked fine the week after a storm can start leaking a year or two later.
Wind is quieter about it. A strong gust can break the seal strip between shingles without moving them far enough to notice, and the next heavy rain works water underneath. Plano has had plenty of gusts to do that: NOAA lists 13 thunderstorm wind reports under the city's name since 2010, topping out at an estimated 75 mph on May 28, 2024.
On a house built in the 1980s or 1990s, both forces have had decades to work. If a second layer of shingles went on over the first at some point, the damage is harder still to read, because the top layer covers whatever is wrong beneath it.
So the estimate we give you rests on what we photographed up close, not on how the roof looks from the curb. On an older roof, those two views can be very far apart.
An older Plano home gives you more to decide than a new one, because the roof you have now may not be the roof the house should have from here on.
We install asphalt shingles, designer shingles, tile and standing seam metal. If your house wears plain asphalt today, a full replacement is the one time you can move to a heavier designer shingle or to metal without paying to remove a roof that still has life in it. On a repair, the goal is the opposite: matching what is already up there as closely as possible.
No estimate made from the ground can say for certain what the decking looks like. Ask that your estimate spell out what happens if the crew finds damaged boards: how they are replaced and how they are priced. That way a soft spot found on work day is a line you already agreed to.
New shingles can make faded fascia and trim on a 1980s house look older than they did the week before. We also handle interior and exterior painting for Plano homes, so the trim and siding can follow the roof with the same company.
Start with the documents. The inspection report from when you bought the house, the seller's disclosure, or an old insurance claim may say when the roof was last replaced. If none of them do, the roof tells part of the story itself. On an assessment we look for buckling, curling or missing shingles, heavy granule loss, exposed nail heads, worn flashing, soft spots in the deck, and stains inside from slow leaks.
Age gives you a starting point. A house built in 1993, the median year for Plano, turns 33 in 2026. If it still has the roof it was built with, that roof has been through every hailstorm in NOAA's record for the city, the two 2016 storms included.
Age alone does not mean replacement. If the shingles still lie flat, the granules are mostly intact and the leak traces to one boot, one valley or one stretch of flashing, a repair can be the right answer, and we will say so. If the photos show wear across every slope, a second layer underneath, or leaks that keep moving, patching tends to buy a season rather than solve the problem, and we will say that too.
Laying new shingles over old ones skips the tear-off, and that is the whole appeal. We do not recommend it. The old layer hides whatever is wrong with the deck, and covering it can void the warranty on the new roof. With everything off, rotted wood and poor ventilation are in plain view and can be fixed while the roof is open. If your Plano house already has two layers, both come off.
Decking is the wood the roof is fastened to. Years of small leaks, the kind that never reached a ceiling, can leave it soft, moldy or water-damaged. We replace any section in that condition, along with boards spaced wrong for current roofing standards, before new underlayment goes down. How much needs replacing varies from house to house, which is why your estimate should state how replacement boards are priced. Whatever we find, we photograph, so you see the same wood we saw.
How much an insurer pays on an older roof depends heavily on the type of policy. The Texas Department of Insurance walks through it with a 10-year-old roof. If a new roof costs $10,000 today, a replacement cost policy pays $8,000 after a $2,000 deductible. An actual cash value policy subtracts depreciation for wear and age, might value that same roof at $7,000, and pays $5,000 (Texas Department of Insurance, Home insurance guide). Since depreciation is a loss of value from wear and age, a Plano roof two or three times that old can leave a wider gap.
Read your policy's declarations page before you file, so the check is not a shock. We document storm damage with photos and support your claim, and the coverage decisions stay between you and your insurer.
April is when Plano gets hit. Of the 24 reports of hail an inch or larger filed under Plano since 2010, 15 came in April and 5 in March, with May, June and September accounting for the rest. The worst year in the record was 2016, with 8 of the 24 reports falling on just two days, March 23 and April 11.
Wind runs a little later. NOAA's 13 Plano wind reports came on 9 storm days, and 6 of them were in May. Some read like roofing work orders: on September 4, 2022, emergency management reported seven power poles blown over, some of them onto homes, and on August 16, 2020, a trained spotter reported tree damage and damage to apartments near Plano Parkway and Highway 75. When an older roof loses shingles in a gust like that, we will tell you honestly whether a repair will hold.
Attic ventilation is easy to forget and hard on a roof when it is wrong. Poor ventilation traps heat in the attic, and that heat ages the deck and the roofing materials from the inside. A full tear-off is the moment to check it, because the deck and the ridge are open. A new roof on an older Plano house can get ridge vents for better airflow as part of the same job.
Here is the sequence from the first phone call to the last nail, so nothing about the job comes as a surprise.
When you call, we ask when the house was built, whether you know of an earlier roof, what you have noticed inside, and whether a storm or an insurance claim is involved.
We assess the roof, photograph the damage and the wear, and give you a written estimate with our recommendation: repair, replace, or wait. If there is a claim, the photos support it.
On a replacement, the old layers come off, the deck is checked and repaired, and the new roof goes on. Afterward the crew sweeps the yard with magnets to pick up nails and checks fences, plants and the driveway, and your project manager walks the job with you.
You do not need to be home while we work. Stay or leave for the day, whichever suits you; tear-off is loud, so young kids, pets and anyone working from home may be happier elsewhere. Either way:
Before: a Plano roof that has been up for decades often shows its age in small ways first. Granules collect at the bottom of the downspouts. Shingle edges curl. A pipe boot cracks, and a faint stain spreads across a bedroom ceiling. Sometimes there is a second layer of shingles under the first, and nobody knew until we looked.
After a repair: the cracked boot, the loose flashing or the missing shingles are replaced, matched to the roof around them, and photographed. After a replacement: the old layers are gone, the deck is sound, the flashing and vents are new, and the material on top is the one you chose for the house. If the attic needed more airflow, the ridge has it now.
The record changes as well. You keep photos of the old roof, the damage and the deck, plus the details of what was done. That file helps when you sell and when the next storm brings a claim.
You can keep that record going. Members of our Roof Care Program get roof inspections twice a year with written health reports and photos, priority scheduling after severe weather, and preferred pricing on repairs.
A stain on the ceiling, a roof you suspect is the original, or a storm date you cannot shake all start the same way: a free assessment and a straight answer.
Call (214) 766-3669 any day from 7 am to 6 pm, or send the form and we will call you back. We will come out, photograph what we find and give you a written estimate.
Our office is at 12800 Westridge Blvd, Suite 162, Frisco, TX 75035, just up the road from Plano.
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Plano roofing questions
We repair roofs, replace roofs that are past saving, and roof multi-family and commercial buildings as well as houses. We work in asphalt shingles, designer shingles, tile and standing seam metal, document storm damage with photos to support insurance claims, and give every Plano homeowner a free assessment and written estimate first. We also paint trim and siding, which helps on an older house where a new roof makes faded fascia stand out.
Check your paperwork first: the inspection report from your purchase, the seller's disclosure, or a past insurance claim may give the date of the last roof. If they do not, the age of the house is a guide. Plano's median home was built in 1993, and more than 59,000 Plano homes went up in the 1980s and 1990s. A free assessment fills in the rest: we check the shingles, flashing and deck and photograph what we find.
Often, yes. If the leak traces to one pipe boot, one valley or one piece of flashing and the rest of the roof is in fair shape, a repair can be the right call. If the photos show wear on every slope, a hidden second layer, or leaks that keep moving, a repair usually buys a season rather than a fix. We tell you which it is, in writing, before you spend anything.
We do not recommend it, and we do a full tear-off instead. Laying new shingles over old ones hides the state of the deck underneath and can void the warranty on the new roof. With everything off, any decking that is water-damaged, moldy or structurally unsound is cut out and replaced before new material goes down, and we photograph what we find. If your house already has two layers, both are removed.
It depends on your policy and on what the adjuster finds. A replacement cost policy pays to replace the roof at today's prices, minus your deductible. An actual cash value policy subtracts depreciation for the roof's age and wear, which can leave a large gap on an older Plano roof. Check which one you have before you file. We support the claim with photo documentation of the damage.
Ask for a clear, itemized estimate that spells out the scope, the materials, what happens if damaged decking turns up, and the warranty on materials and workmanship. Ask who your project manager will be. And ask how the contract handles your insurance deductible. Texas law requires you to pay it (Texas Insurance Code Chapter 707), and a contractor who offers to waive or cover it without your insurer's consent is committing a crime. That offer is the clearest sign to keep looking.
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