Forest damage on rural properties
Walker County is heavily wooded, and like the rest of the Piney Woods its dominant roof hazard is falling timber rather than wind stripping. Pines and hardwoods both come down in saturated-soil wind events, and on rural acreage a tree can be down across a roof for some time before anyone notices, particularly on a property that is not permanently occupied.
The rural character adds a second factor: a meaningful share of the building stock is manufactured housing, barns and outbuildings with metal roofing. Metal changes the anchoring method entirely — no penetrations, clamps and ballast — and manufactured housing roofs have their own structural limits on what can be walked or loaded.
Huntsville's student rental stock brings a different problem again: absentee landlords, tenants who may not know who to call, and roofs where a small breach goes unreported until it has done real damage.
Distance and access
Walker County properties can sit a long way down unpaved private drives, and after a storm those drives are frequently blocked by the same trees that hit the roof. When you call, tell us about access — whether the drive is clear, whether a full-size vehicle can reach the house, and whether there is anything down across the route. It changes what we bring and when we can realistically arrive.
For metal-roofed outbuildings and manufactured homes, covers are ballasted and clamped rather than fastened. On manufactured housing in particular we are careful about what load goes where, because the roof structure is considerably lighter than conventional framing.
We cover Huntsville, New Waverly, Riverside and the surrounding Walker County area.
What we cover in Huntsville
The full range of tarping work, specified for Walker County conditions: emergency tarping when the roof is open and rain is coming, long-term tarping when the repair is months away, and commercial tarping for flat and low-slope buildings. Dispatch is answered 24 hours a day.