Home › Service Areas › Orange, TX
Orange is the easternmost city in Texas, on the Sabine River at the Louisiana line, 19,324 people at the 2020 census and the seat of Orange County. It has the county's hardest storm history and none of Jefferson County's insurance rule. The box first.
On September 13, 2008 Hurricane Ike's surge, put at 22 feet in Wikipedia's entry for the city, breached the levees and flooded nearly the whole population of about 19,000, from six inches to fifteen feet. Much of Orange's housing was rebuilt or re-sided in the years after, which means a lot of roofs and walls here date from 2009 to 2012 and are now at the age where a composition roof in this climate is tired. Then Laura on August 27, 2020: the National Hurricane Center lists the Orange airport at 33 knots sustained with a gust to 47, and trees, lines and poles down across the county with homes damaged.
The practical result is a city of post-Ike roofs meeting post-Laura repairs. The inspection page is the honest first step for a 2009 roof; the repair page for the siding Laura pulled.
West of Orange, in Jefferson County, a re-roof is inspected for a state certificate. In Orange it is not. That does not make a roof here less important; it makes the homeowner the only inspector. Ask for a written scope with the shingle line, its wind rating, the nailing pattern and the edge detail, and ask what the private insurer writing the windstorm coverage wants to know about the roof. The shingle page explains what a rating does and does not promise.
Permit rules for the City of Orange 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 Laura left. A contractor who works Orange County calls back.
Call (409) 248-2181 Request a Free Estimate
Beaumont Roofing