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Bridge City, 9,546 people at the 2020 census, is the town that Hurricane Ike's storm surge went through in September 2008: of about 3,400 houses, Wikipedia's entry for the town says 16 were habitable immediately after, and only 14 were untouched by the water. Nearly everything standing here has been rebuilt, re-roofed or re-sided since. It is in Orange County, and the box below comes first.
Because so much of Bridge City was rebuilt in the same few years after Ike, its roofs age together. A composition roof from 2009 or 2010 is fifteen or sixteen years old in a climate that gives it about twenty, and it has had Harvey's saturation, Imelda's rain and Laura's wind on top. A street of houses reaching that point at once is a street where the condition inspection is the useful first call, and where metal gets considered on the second replacement by people who remember the first.
The siding story is similar: vinyl and fiber-cement went on fast after Ike over walls that had been under water. Where a wall was closed before it was dry, the repair page and a look behind the bottom courses are worth it now.
In Jefferson County a re-roof is inspected for a state certificate; in Bridge City it is not, and windstorm coverage is a private-market matter. That leaves the written scope as the homeowner's check: shingle line and wind rating, nailing pattern, drip edge and starter course, decking condition, ventilation, and the workmanship term. The replacement page is written for the inspected county but the list of what belongs in a scope is the same here. Permit rules for the City of Bridge City were not researched for this page and are not quoted; the contractor confirms what a specific address needs.
Say when the house was rebuilt and what you are seeing. A contractor who works Orange County calls back.
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