Slate on Fort Worth's older homes is usually sound stone with failed fixings or damaged individual slates, often from storm debris. Replacing them without disturbing the surrounding field takes matching stock and the right tools, and it is a great deal cheaper than the replacement someone will try to sell you.
Slate Roofing Across Fort Worth
Storms reach Tarrant County before they reach Dallas, and they often arrive with more energy still in them. That shows up in the roofs: hail bruising across whole slopes, wind-lifted ridges, and gutters taking damage at the same time. Fort Worth also has a wide spread of housing ages, from historic neighbourhoods to newer suburban build-out, so there is no single roof specification that fits the city.
Natural Stone, Measured In Generations
Slate outlasts almost everything else on a house. Seventy-five years is a conservative figure and well-installed slate regularly goes past a century. It is the premium option and it looks like nothing else.
The Structure Has To Carry It
Slate is heavy. Before quoting we check that the framing is rated for the load, because a roof the structure cannot carry is not a roof, it is a problem waiting. That check happens before you are asked to commit to anything.
Repair Is A Specialist Job
Individual slates can be replaced without disturbing the surrounding field, but it takes the right tools and matching stock. Walked on carelessly, slate breaks. Most slate roofs we are called to have been damaged by someone else working on them.
Synthetic Alternatives
Composite slate gives much of the look at a fraction of the weight, which makes it the practical answer where the structure will not take natural stone.
