OUR STORY
He sold roofers their materials for twelve years. Now he reads the roofs those materials became.
Dale Kowalski spent twelve years, 2009 to 2021, on the supply side of Houston roofing. A Gulf Coast building-materials distributor hired him at the branch counter, where the work is loading shingles and learning their labels by hand, and moved him out to a route of the metro's roofing contractors: yards, job sites, will-call desks, and tear-offs he stood on often enough to see what came off the city's roofs in every ring. He also ran the will-call desk through the long stretch after Hurricane Harvey, when the metro re-roofed at storm speed and the material record of that recovery passed across his counter daily.
What the counter built in him was a products memory. Contractors talk at the supply counter the way they talk nowhere else, and the talk is specific: which builder grade shingle is failing at year nine, which valley metal is rusting early, what came back on the warranty pallet and why. Dale learned the metro's roofing stock the way the counter teaches it, product by product and neighborhood by neighborhood: which subdivisions were roofed in which product years, and what each of those products is doing now that it has reached the age it has reached.
In 2021 Dale left the supply side and started this company in Cypress, on the northwest side where the pine belt meets the growth ring. The crew stayed small on purpose. The counter memory became the company's front door: name the products on the roof, give them their ages, say what they do at that age, then talk about what the failing ones cost. Hector Luna joined in 2022 from fourteen years of Houston replacement crews and runs the tear-off and steep work. Ruth Ann Pruitt joined the same year from eleven years dispatching plumbing service trucks and handles the phones and the day's map. Three people, one metro, and a founding grievance that still sets the order of the day: no homeowner should pay for a birthday and find an older one on the truck.
What we run on
Products before verdicts
New, old, and worn are opinions. A reading that names the actual covering, its product generation, its approximate age, and what that product does at that age hands you something you can weigh yourself. The count comes first here and the verdict second, because a homeowner holding the count can size a problem without taking anybody's word for it.
The attic is part of the roof
In this climate a roof ages from both sides. Heat and still air under the deck cook the covering from below while the weather works on it from above, and ventilation that was an afterthought at build time becomes the roof's real lifespan. The read here accounts for the attic side as part of the roof's age, not as an aside to it.
A roof is a pile of birthdays, not a surface
Every covering has a story worth getting straight: which product went on, in which year, over what, and what the storm record since has done to it. Roofs measure their lives in product generations, owners measure theirs in years; the memory this company keeps exists to translate between the two clocks.
One metro, four weathers deep
The crew has worked one metro since 2021, after twelve years of reading its material record from the counter, which means knowing that a Kingwood roof under the pines and a Katy roof on the open prairie, born the same year, are aging on different clocks, and that the bay side is a third weather and the growth ring a fourth. The long view pays in a specific way: it says what your street's products will do next, ahead of yours doing it.
Every job here starts the same way, with a free estimate, free, hassle-free, and no-obligation.