Roofing contractor in Como, TX
DJJ Roofing is a roofing contractor in Como working out of our own shop about fifteen minutes north in Sulphur Springs. Replacements, repairs, metal, gutters and storm work, with a free inspection and photographs of whatever we find.
Fifteen minutes north. Our yard is up State Highway 11 in Sulphur Springs, so getting down here is a short run rather than a callout.
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BEFORE THE STORM
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Live rain and storm radar for Como 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 Como
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 Como are up against
A roofing contractor in Como is mostly dealing with three things, and it is worth telling them apart because each wants a different answer. This is farm and ranch country south of the county seat, so roofs here sit in the open with tree cover in patches rather than in rows.
Spring hail
It falls unevenly across this part of the county, which is why what a neighbor was told tells you very little. Hail bruises the mat without opening a hole, so the roof keeps working while quietly losing years.
Wind across pasture
A gust that crossed half a mile of open field arrives with nothing taken out of it. Seal strips give way at the rakes and ridges first, and the shingle still looks perfectly normal from the road.
Limbs and litter
Where oaks sit close to a house the damage is slower: branches scraping granules off in every blow, and leaf litter holding damp in the valleys between rains.
“Within just one hour of my request, they had a drone in the air and a full estimate with photos in my inbox. The pricing was very reasonable, the work was finished exactly on time and to a high standard.”
That is the whole idea. Somebody local gets on the roof, photographs what is actually there, and puts it in writing before you have to decide anything.
Verified on GoogleA roofer who is already down this road
Most people do not think about a roof until something forces them to: a stain spreading on a ceiling, or a spring storm that had the whole community at the window watching it come down. At that point the question is not really whether you need a roofer, it is who you can call and get a straight answer from.
We are based about fifteen minutes away in Sulphur Springs, and the crew that turns up is our crew. When you ring about a warranty question three years from now you are speaking to the same company that put the roof on, which is most of what a workmanship warranty is worth.
If what we find is a repair rather than a replacement, we say so. Around here that happens more than people expect, because a lot of these houses are structurally sound and what has actually failed is one detail: a perished vent boot, a run of ridge cap, flashing where a chimney meets the field.
Being a roofing contractor in Como that is genuinely close by also changes the pace. An inspection is usually a matter of days, not weeks, and when somebody calls with water coming in we can be looking at it the same morning instead of fitting it in next week.
The other thing proximity buys is knowing the building stock. Houses on the same stretch of road tend to be the same age and carry the same details, so the same things fail on them at the same time. On a road we have already worked, a leak call often starts with a reasonable idea of where the water is getting in.
We get on the roof
Up on the deck with a camera, looking at seal strips, granule loss and every place the roof meets something else.
You get the photographs
Whatever we find, photographed and handed over. Yours to keep whether you hire us or not.
And a written estimate
In writing, so you can put it beside anybody else’s and compare like for like.
What people in these counties say
Every review below is from a customer in these counties. The full set is on our reviews page.
Within just one hour of my request, they had a drone in the air and a full estimate with photos in my inbox. The pricing was very reasonable, the work was finished exactly on time and to a high standard.
GoogleWOW! DJJ Roofing was here at the crack of dawn and before sunset our house had a brand new beautiful roof. The young men on Eliceo’s crew worked tirelessly and professionally under his watchful eye. We were very impressed. Good company, good management, and great price.
GoogleVery customer friendly and easy to work with from start to finish. DJJ Roofing made the whole process simple and stress-free.
GoogleChoosing a roof for a Como property
There is no single best roof for this part of Texas. What suits a house in the middle of town is not what suits a shop out on acreage, and with as much open ground as there is around here, how a system handles wind matters more than it would in a sheltered subdivision. Any roofing contractor in Como will fit all four of these, so the useful question is which one the building actually wants.
Architectural asphalt shingle
The default on houses here, and for good reason: it copes with a long summer, it can be repaired in isolation years later, and the impact-rated grades are worth pricing. We fit complete Owens Corning, GAF and CertainTeed systems rather than mixing components across brands.
Standing seam metal
Concealed fasteners, nothing to back out, and a service life that often outlasts the owner. On open ground it is also the system that handles wind best, because there are no fastener heads for uplift to catch. Hail damage on it is usually cosmetic rather than a leak path, because nothing penetrates the weather surface.
PBR, PBU and corrugated panel
The workhorse systems on the shops, barns and equipment sheds around Como. Economical over a large area and fast to fit. The trade-off is that the fastener washers are a maintenance item every decade or two rather than fit-and-forget.
TPO and modified bitumen
For anything too shallow to shed water by pitch alone. Both membrane types are perfectly good; what decides the outcome is how the edges and the drains are handled.
Eight things worth a free look
You do not need to be a roofer to spot most of these, and six of the eight can be checked from the ground in ten minutes. If two or three sound familiar, book the inspection. Free genuinely means free, including the times a roofing contractor in Como tells you nothing needs doing this year.
Grit at the bottom of the downspout
Granules are the covering’s sunscreen. Once they are washing off faster than normal the asphalt underneath is aging in direct sun, and that part of the process does not reverse.
A shingle that lifts when you pull it
That means the adhesive strip has released. The shingle is still sitting there and it is no longer part of a sealed surface, which is a different thing entirely.
Bruised vents, gutters and flashing
Soft metal records a hailstorm far more honestly than shingle does, so dimpled metal almost always means the field of the roof took the same impact on the same day.
A mark on the ceiling that comes and goes
Intermittent staining is still a leak. It means water is only entering under certain wind and rain conditions, which actually narrows down considerably where to go looking for it.
Light visible from inside the attic
Any daylight through the deck is a gap, and a gap large enough to see from underneath is more than large enough for water, for insects and for wildlife.
An attic you cannot stand to be in
Trapped heat ages a covering from the underside. Where the soffit intake has been blocked or built over, a roof can lose years of life with nothing at all showing from outside.
Rust staining running below a fastener
On a panel roof that streak is the tell. Water has been getting past the washer for long enough to mark the steel below it.
A ridge line that is no longer straight
Sighting along the ridge from the ground is a free check. A dip means the deck underneath has been wet for a long time.
Getting storm damage on the record early
Hail bruising fractures the mat underneath the granules and the roof carries on shedding water exactly as it did before. Wait two seasons and proving the storm caused it becomes very hard, which is why photographs taken while the damage is fresh matter more than almost anything else.
Our role here is deliberately limited. We are roofers, not adjusters: we inspect free, photograph the roof systematically, and write up contractor-observed damage as factual scope information. Whether any of it is covered, and for how much, is your insurer’s decision against your policy.
The deductible stays with you. Texas law does not permit a contractor to waive, absorb or rebate any part of it, so it belongs in your budget from the start. Storm dates for this part of the state are published by the National Weather Service in Fort Worth, and an established date makes a claim far easier to discuss.
Document it while it is fresh
Policy deadlines run from the date of the storm, not the date the stain appeared. Photographs taken in the first days are worth far more than a description later.
Sometimes the answer is no claim
If the damage is a repair rather than a replacement, filing can cost you more than it returns. We will say so plainly.
Severe weather confirmed near Como since 2022
The National Weather Service has logged 30 severe weather reports in Hopkins County since 2022. These six are the ones nearest Como. 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.
How much does a new roof cost in Como?
For a full asphalt shingle replacement on an average single-story home, a roofing contractor in Como typically charges about $6,000 to $14,000, including tear-off and disposal. Metal runs about $12,000 to $30,000 or more, and Class 4 impact-resistant shingles usually fall between $10,000 and $17,000. These are typical Northeast Texas ranges, not a quote: the price for your roof is set after a free on-site inspection and a written estimate. Prices by home size and material are set out in our roof replacement cost guide.
No roofing contractor in Como should be quoting a figure before getting on the roof. Below are the six variables that genuinely move the price, which is why two roofs of the same size can cost very different amounts.
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.
The only honest way to price a roof is to get on it. That costs you nothing here, and you keep the images and the written estimate whatever you decide.
Louder than you expect, shorter than you fear
Most single-family replacements around Como are a one-day job. The crew arrives early, protects the ground and the landscaping, and works through in order. It is genuinely noisy while it is happening and it is over faster than most people brace for.
Worth doing beforehand: move vehicles off the drive, 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.
On a property with a long drive or soft ground we will talk through where the truck and the dumpster can sit before the day rather than working it out on the morning. It sounds like a small thing and it is the difference between a tidy job and ruts across a yard.
The one thing that can extend a job is what turns up once the old covering is off. Decking is the only part of a roof nobody can assess in advance, so the estimate carries a per-sheet rate and we show you photographs of anything we replace. You will know the number before we carry on rather than afterwards.
Set up and remove
Ground protection goes down first, then a controlled strip so that nothing comes off the roof faster than it can be cleared away below.
Deck work and weatherproofing
Decking checked sheet by sheet and replaced wherever it is needed, then the whole roof dried in before the working day ends.
Fit the new roof
Every layer fitted to the manufacturer’s written instructions, because that is precisely what the material warranty depends on holding up later.
Final sweep and handover
Magnets over the whole property, all debris away, photographs of each stage handed over, and the workmanship warranty issued in writing.
Barns, shops and churches around Como
Alongside the houses, this end of the county is full of working buildings. Hay barns, equipment sheds, shops behind houses and the odd small metal unit on the highway, most of them on exposed-fastener panel that went up decades ago and has had nothing done to it since.
On those buildings the most common job is not a new roof at all. It is comprehensive fastener replacement, because the panel and its coating routinely outlive the rubber washers under thousands of screws. Where the panels are sound that work buys another decade for a fraction of the cost of re-roofing.
Agricultural work also runs differently from a house. The inspection looks at drainage and where water leaves the building as much as the covering itself, and the schedule has to work around whatever is stored underneath. A wet hay crop costs more than the repair does, which is why those calls get treated as urgent.
Churches come up more than people expect. They tend to have steep planes, long unbroken runs and a low-slope section over an addition somewhere, and the budget conversation usually involves a committee rather than one owner. We are used to quoting those in stages so the urgent section can be done now and the rest next year.
Questions we get asked around here
Yes, regularly. We have been the roofing contractor in Como for houses and outbuildings on these roads for years, and it is about fifteen minutes from our shop in Sulphur Springs. Most inspections get scheduled within a few days, and storm calls with an active leak jump the queue.
For a standard asphalt shingle roof on an average single-story home here, $30,000 is well above the usual range of $6,000 to $14,000, and even a 3,000 sq ft home typically lands between $16,000 and $24,000. It is a normal figure for standing seam metal, which runs about $18,000 to $30,000 and up, or for a very large, steep or complex roof with two layers to remove or a lot of decking to replace. If a quote surprises you, ask which of those is driving it. These are typical ranges, not a quote.
Most homes out this way are a one-day job, start to walkthrough. A larger or more complex roof, or one that turns out to need significant decking work, can run into a second day. We tell you which we expect before we start rather than after.
That is your carrier’s decision against your policy. What we do is inspect for free, photograph what is there, and write it up factually so the claim gets decided on evidence rather than on recollection.
Yes, and it is a large share of what we do out this way. On a metal building the usual answer is fastener and closure work rather than a new roof, which routinely buys another decade for a fraction of the price. The survey is free and tells you which situation the building is actually in.
We are out this way most weeks
Como sits south of the county seat with several small communities around it, and a roofing contractor in Como is usually passing at least one of them the same day. Each has its own page.
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 Como
These named communities sit closest to Como. Several are a few minutes off the highway, and the roofs are often on acreage, which means wind reaches them from more directions than it does in town.
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