Brownwood Roof Pros provides professional roofing services in Rising Star, TX — Eastland County, population 756. From roof replacement and roof leak repair to insurance claim help, our insured team serves Rising Star homes and businesses.
Rising Star property owners near the State Highway 36 and US 183 crossing in Rising Star, the Eastland County line country south of Rising Star count on Brownwood Roof Pros for roofing contractor in Rising Star. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Brownwood to every job in Rising Star, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (855) 626-2619 for a free roofing estimate in Rising Star, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Roofing in Rising Star, TX
Median home value in Rising Star is $39,500. That is the second lowest figure we work with, and it sets a hard ceiling on what a sensible roofing recommendation can cost, because a full tear-off here is a large share of the entire asset.
The town got its name when a neighbor said the area must be rising star country, since it produced crops when everything around it was barren, and it has been shrinking since the railroad years. One hundred and forty-two of its 430 housing units are now vacant.
Two hundred of those units predate 1950 and 101 predate 1940, against a median year built of 1952. Almost half of Rising Star was framed before plywood sheathing was standard, so plank decking is the working assumption on any tear-off in the old grid. A 65-knot thunderstorm gust was logged on 10 February 2009, in a month nobody in this county thinks of as storm season.
On 8 May 2009 hail measured at four inches was logged at Rising Star during a day that produced an HP supercell west of Fort Worth with softball stones. On 26 April 2015 stones of two and three quarter inches fell here, and on 25 May 2024 two and a half.
Rising Star is an incorporated town in southwestern Eastland County at the crossing of US 183 and State Highway 36, so the International Residential Code as it existed on 1 May 2012 is its residential building code under state law, reaching repair and alteration of a dwelling.
Sixty-seven units here are mobile or manufactured and 123 of 288 occupied units are rented. Between them that is most of the town's roof stock in the hands of somebody who does not live under it, which is exactly the condition our photographic reporting was built for. An F1 tornado crossed near town on 30 March 2002, one of three tornado reports filed at Rising Star.
If your policy carries replacement cost, expect the money in two parts. A Texas insurer may refuse to release withheld recoverable depreciation until it receives reasonable proof that you paid the deductible, so keep the canceled check or the card statement with the invoice.
The roofing jobs Rising Star calls us for
Brownwood Roof Pros covers the same range of work in Rising Star that we do in Brownwood — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Metal Roofing — Most roofing sites argue metal on lifespan and payback, and on a house in town those numbers rarely quite land. Out here we reach the opposite recommendation, and service life has nothing to do with why.
- Tile Roofing — Tile is a small part of the picture in Brown County. A few older houses near the Howard Payne campus wear it, a few of the nineteen-twenties builds downtown, and a scattering of newer places built for the look.
- Flat and Low-Slope Roofing — Low-slope work in this county is mostly not on commercial buildings. It is on the additions.
- Roof Coatings and Sealing — Coatings get sold hard in small markets because the ticket is small and the pitch is easy. We sell fewer of them than anyone in this county.
- Roof Ventilation — Ventilation advice usually assumes a house with the air conditioning running, a family showering and cooking, and a pressure difference pushing moist indoor air upward. Roughly a fifth of the housing in this county has none of that going on, and the standard advice does not transfer cleanly.
- Skylights — A skylight is a deliberate hole in the roof with a frame around it, and the frame is a wear item. That is a fair trade in a house somebody lives in.
See the full list of Brownwood services, or call (855) 626-2619.
About Rising Star, TX — and why local matters here
Rising Star sits in Eastland County with a population of roughly 756, close enough to Brownwood that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include the State Highway 36 and US 183 crossing in Rising Star, the Eastland County line country south of Rising Star.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Rising Star properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Eastland County, and a roofing contractor who works the area weekly already knows what fails locally and what holds up. That is the difference between a bid and an accurate bid.
Getting a free estimate in Rising Star
Call (855) 626-2619 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Rising Star, usually within a couple of days. You get a written, itemized free estimate with materials and scope spelled out — no verbal ballpark, no pressure, and no charge whether you hire us or not.
We also serve Gorman, TX and the rest of Brown County. Everything starts at the Brownwood Roof Pros homepage.
Popular services in Rising Star: Roof Replacement and Roof Leak Repair.
We also serve Gorman, TX and Brown County.