Nacogdoches Roof Pros provides professional roofing services in Kennard, TX — Houston County, population 272. From residential roof installation and commercial roof installation to wind damage roofing, our insured team serves Kennard homes and businesses.
Kennard property owners near Ratcliff Lake Recreation Area, the State Highway 7 corridor east of Crockett count on Nacogdoches Roof Pros for roofing contractor in Kennard. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Nacogdoches to every job in Kennard, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (877) 357-2051 for a free roofing estimate in Kennard, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Roofing in Kennard, TX
Kennard has 272 residents, seventy-eight occupied housing units, and a Building Permits and Inspections department. The city's own pages say it issues building permits, reviews building plans, conducts construction inspections, issues certificates of occupancy and works with a Planning and Zoning Commission. That is more permitting apparatus than towns twenty times its size in this territory publish.
What it does not publish is any of the paperwork. The ordinances page lists nothing. The permits page tells you to download the forms below if available, and none are. There is no fee schedule. So the answer for a Kennard homeowner is that you have to call city hall and ask, and we will make that call with you rather than assuming.
The famous storm here is filed under the wrong name. The EF3 tornado of 13 April 2019 that destroyed a double-wide near Weches and killed its occupant is recorded in the federal database under a begin location reading Center, which is a Houston County community and not the Shelby County seat two counties east. Its coordinates sit seven miles from Kennard.
That tornado stayed on the ground more than forty miles and crossed into Cherokee County, where the same system tore the roof off the Caddo Mounds building near Alto. A separate EF1 touched down two miles from Kennard the same day with about three hundred thousand dollars of damage. One date, two counties, several different filings.
Forty percent of Kennard's housing units are manufactured, seventy of a hundred and seventy-three, the second highest share on this site. That is the reason the tornado record here is dominated by mobile home losses, and it is the reason we are careful about what we quote. A HUD-code home has no rafter tails and no site-built fascia to rebuild.
On the site-built cabins and small houses, most of which sit surrounded by national forest land, the problem is that they are frequently empty for stretches at a time. An unnoticed leak becomes framing work quickly in this humidity. We would rather inspect once a year for a flat fee than rebuild an eave nobody was watching.
Median build year here is 1974 and the median value about a hundred and five thousand dollars. On seventy-eight occupied units every survey figure carries a wide margin, so treat all of these as ranges. What is not a range is the drive: this is the far southwestern corner of our territory and we schedule it in blocks.
Roofing work we do in Kennard, TX
Nacogdoches Roof Pros covers the same range of work in Kennard that we do in Nacogdoches — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Storm Damage Restoration — The storms that reach Nacogdoches County have usually already been somewhere else. Tropical systems arrive from the southeast with the wind on the wrong side of the house, and spring squall lines come through in the dark with several inches of water behind them.
- Tile Roofing — There is very little tile in Nacogdoches County, and there are good reasons for that. We install it, we maintain the few roofs that have it, and on most East Texas houses we will talk you out of it before you spend the money.
- Wind Damage Roofing — Wind rarely starts a failure in the middle of a Nacogdoches roof. It starts at the edge, because the edge is where the fasteners sit closest to wood that has been wet longest, and a soft board holds a nail about as well as cardboard.
- Residential Roof Installation — The first question on a new roof here is which code edition applies, and the answer is unpredictable. Adopted editions across this footprint span 2001 to 2024, and on unincorporated ground nothing is adopted at all.
- Commercial Roof Installation — Commercial work in this region is three things: brick buildings on and around the Nacogdoches square, metal buildings across Angelina and Shelby counties, and low-slope additions on schools, churches and clinics. Each fails differently and none of them fails in the middle.
- Roof Replacement — A full replacement in Nacogdoches County is the only time anyone sees the roof edge. Once the shingles come off, you can see the rafter tails, the fascia behind the gutter and roughly the first yard of decking, and that is where the money belongs.
See the full list of Nacogdoches services, or call (877) 357-2051.
About Kennard, TX — and why local matters here
Kennard sits in Houston County with a population of roughly 272, close enough to Nacogdoches that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include Ratcliff Lake Recreation Area, the State Highway 7 corridor east of Crockett.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Kennard properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Houston 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 Kennard
Call (877) 357-2051 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Kennard, 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 Zavalla, TX and the rest of Deep East Texas. Everything starts at the Nacogdoches Roof Pros homepage.
Popular services in Kennard: Residential Roof Installation and Commercial Roof Installation.
We also serve Zavalla, TX and Deep East Texas.