Roof Flashing Repair in Austin, TX
Flashing is the metal that bridges the roof plane to everything interrupting it, and it is where most roofs leak first. Our crews fabricate chimney crickets, copper and lead detail work, skylight curbs and wall transitions by hand on site. Have the flashing looked at or send us the details.
Hand-picked by Dennis White from a recent roof flashing repair project · live from Austin Area Roofers’ CompanyCam library.
Why Flashing Fails Before Shingles Do
A shingle field is a simple surface. Flashing is every complication on that surface: chimneys, skylights, HVAC penetrations, dormers, the line where a roof meets a wall. Water finds the joint, not the field.
Factory stamped flashing is made to fit an average roof. Hill Country homes are rarely average, and a stock piece forced onto a pitch it was never shaped for will leave a gap that sealant hides for two years and then does not.
What Our Crews Fabricate
- Chimney crickets: built by hand to shed water around the high side of a chimney instead of ponding against it
- Welded copper and lead: for historic properties and for details where a soldered joint outlasts a sealed one
- Custom skylight curbs: shaped to the actual opening rather than a catalogue size
- Standing seam transitions: where a metal roof meets another plane or another material
- Wall to roof step flashing: woven in course by course, not run as a single L strip
Fabricated On Site, Not Ordered In
Bending metal on the property means the piece is shaped to the roof it is going on, and it means a complicated detail does not wait a week for a supplier. The work is done by hand by our own crew.
This is also the part of a roof that separates crews. Anyone can lay a field of shingles. Flashing is where experience shows, which is why other Central Texas roofing companies call us in to handle details they would rather not attempt.
Materials and Where Each Belongs
Galvanized steel is the default and it is fine in most Austin applications. Copper costs more and lasts longer, develops a patina instead of corroding, and is the right call on historic homes and on premium builds where the flashing is in view. Lead is used where a detail has to be dressed into an irregular shape, which is common around older masonry chimneys.
Aluminum has one hard rule: keep it off masonry and off treated lumber. Free lime in mortar and concrete attacks it chemically, and the copper in modern treated lumber attacks it galvanically. Two different mechanisms, one result, and it is a common enough mistake in Central Texas that the metal gets chosen per detail instead of per roof.
What It Covers
New flashing installations carry a workmanship warranty of ten years. Repairs carry two years. Both are backed by the same crew that installed them, not a subcontractor who has moved on.
Frequently asked questions
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If You Have a Leak Near a Chimney
A stain on a ceiling near a chimney, skylight or wall junction is a flashing problem far more often than a shingle problem. Getting it inspected is free. Call Austin Area Roofers at (737) 802-2272. Request an inspection, see structural roof repair, or contact our crews.
We're a roofing company with a sales department, not a sales company masquerading as a roofing company that just farms out the work to the cheapest subcontractors.
We focus on doing the job the right way · materials, fabrication, and workmanship. We prioritize high-end, high-quality products over Big Box Store options, and we handle custom fabrications by hand and on site so the finished system fits properly and lasts for years. Our owners are roofers, and our crews are personally trained, certified in what they install, and held accountable for the quality of their work.
The tell that matters: we are the roofer most used by other roofing companies in Central Texas to actually fulfill their clients' needs. When the company on the truck can't deliver, ours is the crew they call to get the job done right.
One conversation with our in-house trained professionals (each trained by Benny himself) and you'll KNOW.
Free instant quote online, or call the office and ask for Dennis or one of the highly trained sales specialists. They run the quotes and give you the best options. They will even give you a personal cell number. That is confidence in our work product.
