Roofing contractor in Commerce, TX
DJJ Roofing is a roofing contractor in Commerce working from our own shop about thirty minutes away in Sulphur Springs. Replacements, repairs, metal, gutters and storm work for homes, rentals and businesses, with a free inspection and photographs of whatever we find.
Thirty minutes away. Our yard is over in Sulphur Springs, near enough that Commerce is part of the ordinary week.
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BEFORE THE STORM
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Live rain and storm radar for Commerce and the counties around it, updated roughly every ten minutes. Drag it, pinch or scroll to zoom, and scrub back through the last couple of hours.
If a storm has already been through, you do not have to guess what it did to the roof. A free inspection gets you photographs of whatever is up there, and a written report you can keep whether or not you ever file a claim.
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Roofing services in Commerce
Full tear-off and replacement in shingle or metal, finished to manufacturer specification and swept for nails daily.
Free post-storm inspection, photographed and written up factually for your adjuster.
Shingles, flashing, valleys, ventilation and drainage, photographed with a written summary.
What roofs around Commerce are up against
A roofing contractor in Commerce works on an unusual mix for a town this size, because a university town carries a lot of rental property alongside the owner-occupied houses. Rentals get looked at less often, and that changes what we find.
Spring hail
It falls unevenly across the town, so a landlord with houses on two streets can have one roof damaged and one untouched. Hail bruises the mat without opening a hole, so nothing shows inside for years.
Wind on older roofs
Much of the housing stock here has age on it, and an older seal strip gives up far more easily than a new one. The shingle stays in place looking normal while no longer being sealed to the course below it.
Deferred small repairs
On a rental the small things get left: a cracked vent boot, a lifted flashing, a gutter off its hangers. None of them are expensive on the day and all of them are expensive after two wet seasons.
“Within an hour of my request they had a drone in the air and a full estimate with photos in my inbox. The work finished exactly on time and to a high standard.”
That is the point of it. Somebody gets on the roof, photographs what is actually there, and puts it in writing before anybody has to make a decision.
Verified on GoogleA roofer who reports in writing
Commerce has a lot of property that somebody owns and somebody else lives in, and that makes written evidence worth more than it is anywhere else. A photographed report is something a landlord can act on without driving over, and something a tenant can hand on.
We are based on Como St S in Sulphur Springs, about thirty minutes away. The crew that turns up is ours, and the company you ring about a warranty question years from now is the company that did the work. That continuity is most of what a workmanship warranty is worth.
Where a repair will do we say so. On the older housing stock here that is frequently the right answer, because the structure is sound and what has failed is one detail: a perished boot, a run of ridge, step flashing where an addition meets the main roof.
Being a roofing contractor in Commerce that is genuinely nearby also decides the pace. An inspection is a matter of days rather than weeks, and a call with water actively coming in gets seen the same morning instead of waiting for next week.
For anybody with more than one property we will look at several in a single visit and report on each one separately, so the urgent roof can be dealt with now and the rest planned into next year. There is no extra charge for looking at more than one building, and each gets its own photographs.
On the deck with a camera
Seal strips lifted, valleys checked, every penetration looked at individually rather than scanned.
Images against every claim
If we say a boot is cracked, there is a photograph of the cracked boot attached to the report.
An estimate you can compare
Written out deliberately, because a single figure tells you nothing about what is included.
What people in these counties say
Every review below is from a customer in these counties. The full set is on our reviews page.
DJJ Roofing did an amazing job on our roof. They were professional, on time, and the crew cleaned up everything before they left. The whole process was easy and the price was fair. Highly recommend DJJ Roofing LLC!
FacebookWithin just one hour of my request they had a drone in the air and a full estimate with photos in my inbox. Pricing was reasonable and the work finished exactly on time.
GoogleHere at the crack of dawn and before sunset our house had a brand new beautiful roof. Good company, good management, and a great price.
GoogleChoosing a roof for a Commerce property
There is no single best roof for this part of Texas, and on rental property the calculation is different again: the cost per year of service matters more than the look. Any roofing contractor in Commerce will fit all four of these systems, so the question is which one the building and the plan actually want.
Architectural asphalt shingle
Handles the heat, comes in impact-rated classes that some carriers credit, and is straightforward to repair years later. We install Owens Corning, GAF and CertainTeed systems so underlayment, starter, ridge and ventilation all come from one manufacturer under one warranty.
Standing seam metal
Concealed fasteners, nothing to back out, and a service life that often outlasts the owner. On a property you intend to hold for a long time it is frequently the lowest cost per year of service, even though it prices as the premium option. Hail damage on it is usually cosmetic rather than a leak path, because nothing penetrates the weather surface.
PBR, PBU and corrugated panel
For shops, hay barns and equipment sheds this is usually the right answer on cost alone. It is a fit-and-maintain system rather than fit-and-forget, and the maintenance is fasteners.
TPO and modified bitumen
Low-slope work is a different trade from shingle. The covering is the easy part; the parapets, terminations and drainage are where these roofs are actually won or lost.
Eight things worth a free look
Most of these can be checked from the ground in ten minutes, by an owner or a tenant. If two or three sound familiar, book the inspection. Free genuinely means free, including the times a roofing contractor in Commerce tells you nothing needs doing this year.
Granule loss showing in the gutters
A steady layer of grit after every storm means the covering is shedding its protective layer faster than it should be, and what is underneath ages quickly once it is exposed.
Tabs that move under a hand
Wind damage rarely removes a shingle outright. It breaks the seal strip, and the shingle then sits there looking completely normal while no longer being part of a waterproof surface.
Dimpling on vents and gutter faces
Metal shows impact first and keeps the record. It is the most useful evidence there is that hail of a genuinely damaging size fell on this particular property.
Staining on a ceiling, however faint
Water travels along the framing before it drops, so the mark is frequently several feet from where it actually got in and sometimes in a completely different room.
Pinholes of daylight in the attic
Easiest to check in the middle of the day with the lights off, and one of the very few things a homeowner can confirm on their own without going anywhere near the roof.
Heat trapped above the ceiling
Poor ventilation cooks the covering from below through the whole summer. It is inexpensive to correct and it adds genuine years to the life of a roof.
Sagging along a ridge or between rafters
A dip in the roof line usually means the decking has been wet long enough to lose strength. That is structural, not a shingle problem.
Roofs going on along your street
Houses built in the same stretch take the same storms and reach the same age together. If two or three near you are being replaced, yours is worth a look.
Getting storm damage on the record early
Hail bruising fractures the mat underneath the granules and the roof carries on shedding water exactly as before. Two seasons later, proving the storm did it becomes very difficult, which is why photographs taken while the damage is fresh matter more than almost anything else.
We would rather set out exactly what we do than imply more. The inspection costs nothing, everything is photographed, and what can be observed from the roof is written up factually for whoever is assessing it. Coverage and payment are decided by your carrier, never by us.
No part of a deductible can be waived, absorbed or discounted by a contractor under Texas law, so we do not offer it. If you need the date of a storm established, the National Weather Service office in Fort Worth keeps the reports for this region.
The evidence has a shelf life
Fresh damage photographs well and is unambiguous. Two seasons on, establishing what a storm did becomes genuinely difficult.
A claim is not always the right move
Where the work is smaller than the deductible, or the damage is wear rather than storm, we would rather tell you than file anyway.
Severe weather confirmed near Commerce since 2022
The National Weather Service has logged 55 severe weather reports in Hunt County since 2022. These six are the ones nearest Commerce. They are worth knowing because an insurance claim runs from the date the damage happened, not the date a ceiling stains, and that date is often months earlier than people think.
What actually moves the price of a roof
No roofing contractor in Commerce can give a real price sight unseen. These are the six things that decide it, and every one of them is visible in the written estimate you get afterwards.
Roof area and pitch
Everything is priced from the square, and steepness is the multiplier on top of it. It changes the labor, the safety setup and how fast the crew can work all day.
Layers coming off
Stripping one covering is straightforward enough. Stripping two or three means more labor on the roof, more weight to move and materially more disposal cost.
The condition of the deck
It is the only part of a roof that genuinely cannot be assessed in advance, so the rate is agreed before we start and you are shown photographs of anything replaced.
How complicated the roof is
Multiple planes, dormers and chimneys all add flashing and cutting, and every junction between them is somewhere water has to be handled properly or not at all.
What goes on it
The covering itself is only one part of the specification. Underlayment, starter course, ridge and ventilation all belong in the price and all belong in the estimate by name.
Where the building is
Access, ground conditions and the distance material has to travel across a property all show up as time on the day, and time is most of what any roof costs.
Guesswork helps nobody. Book the free look and you will have photographs of the actual problem and a written estimate you can take away and compare.
Louder than you expect, shorter than you fear
Most single-family replacements in Commerce are a one-day job. The crew arrives early, protects the ground and the landscaping, and works through in order. It is noisy while it happens and over faster than most people brace for.
Worth doing beforehand: move vehicles off the driveway, take fragile pictures off the walls, and plan any calls for somewhere other than directly under the roof deck. Pets are usually happier elsewhere for the day.
Where a house is tenanted we agree access and timing in advance so nobody is surprised on the morning, and the same written report goes to whoever is paying for the work.
What can extend a job is whatever turns up once the old covering is off. Decking is the one part nobody can assess in advance, so the estimate carries a per-sheet rate and we photograph anything we replace. You will know the number before we carry on rather than after.
Protect and tear off
Tarps down, landscaping covered, and the old roof stripped back to the deck.
Decking and dry-in
Any rotten decking replaced, then underlayment so the building is watertight before anything else.
The new system
Starter, field, flashing, ridge and ventilation, all to manufacturer specification.
Sweep and walkthrough
Magnets over the yard and drive, debris hauled away, then we walk the finished roof with you.
Rentals, small commercial and churches
Alongside the houses, Commerce carries a good deal of small commercial property: shops, offices, units on the edge of town, and the low-slope roofs that come with most of them.
On low-slope work the failures are almost never in the middle of the field. They are at the edges, the terminations, the drains, and every penetration added since the building went up. A proper survey spends its time there rather than walking the middle.
Multi-property owners are a large part of what we do here. Several buildings can be surveyed in one visit and reported on separately, so the urgent roof is dealt with now and the rest go into next year’s budget with photographs attached.
Churches come up regularly and are their own kind of job: steep planes, long unbroken runs, a low-slope section over an addition somewhere, and a decision that has to be agreed by a committee rather than one owner. We are used to quoting those in stages, with photographs, so the necessary work happens first and the rest goes into a later budget.
Questions we get asked around here
Yes, regularly. We are the roofing contractor in Commerce for houses, rentals and small commercial buildings here, about thirty minutes from our shop in Sulphur Springs. Inspections are usually within a few days and storm calls with an active leak come first.
Yes, and that is common here. You get the photographs and the written findings by email, with each building reported separately if there is more than one, so a decision can be made without a trip over.
Yes. No charge, no obligation, and the report is yours whether you hire us or not. We do not recover the cost inside a later quote, and you are welcome to compare our estimate with anybody else’s.
Yes, and there is no extra charge for it. Each roof is photographed and quoted on its own so you can decide on them independently rather than being handed one number for everything.
That is your carrier’s decision against your policy. We inspect for free, photograph what is there, and write it up factually so the claim is decided on evidence rather than recollection. We never predict an approval.
We are out this way most weeks
Commerce sits in the north of Hunt County, and a roofing contractor in Commerce is usually near one or two of these on the same day.
Pick your town
We cover five counties from one shop in Sulphur Springs: Hopkins, Hunt, Franklin, Delta and Wood. If your town is on this list, an inspection is a normal week rather than a special trip.
The communities around Commerce
The places below are the named communities nearest Commerce, with how far each one is. If your mailing address says Commerce but you are actually out closer to one of these, that is still our area and the drive is the same to us.
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