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Clay and concrete tile give Irving homes a roof that shrugs off UV and defines Mediterranean and Spanish architecture, with structural weight requirements that make installer experience non-negotiable.
Tile’s virtues are longevity and sun-indifference; its demands are weight and detail. A tile roof can outlast several shingle cycles, but the structure must carry it, the underlayment beneath it has its own service life, and walking it wrong breaks it. On re-tile projects, the underlayment, not the tile, is usually what actually failed.
We install and service tile roofing, both clay and concrete, across Irving and the surrounding DFW communities. Estimates are free and written, inspections are documented with photos, deductibles are never waived under Texas law, and we are a contractor, not a public adjuster.
Tile roofs and re-tile work across Irving
In Irving, tile suits homes designed for it. With a median year built of 1986 and 36% of homes built before 1980, many existing tile roofs here have reached the age when underlayment, rather than tile, starts to fail. A careful re-tile lifts the tile, replaces the membrane, and resets sound pieces, and we confirm the framing before recommending tile on any house not built for it.
Hail shapes the inspection. The Irving area has logged 33 days of hail an inch or larger since 2006, with the largest at 4.25 inches on May 24, 2011. Cracked tiles can hide water damage below, so we check from the attic as well as the roof. The same Dallas County crews serve Coppell and Grapevine.
PUBLIC RECORD
The local record behind Tile Roofing in Irving
How a roof system holds up in Irving depends on the storms it has to take and the houses it sits on. Here is what the public record shows.
33
Hail days, 1 in.+ since 2006
9
Golf-ball-size hail days
4.25 in.
Largest stone on record
1986
Median year homes built
Hail near Irving
NOAA's Storm Events Database lists 33 days since 2006 with hail one inch or larger reported within 8 miles of Irving. On 9 of those days, the stones were golf ball size or bigger. Hail that size was reported in 15 of the last 20 years. The largest stones on record nearby measured 4.25 inches (grapefruit size) on May 24, 2011. The most recent report: 1.5-inch hail on March 25, 2025.
- May 24, 2011: 4.25-inch hail (grapefruit size)
- June 6, 2018: 3-inch hail (teacup size)
- June 13, 2012: 3-inch hail (teacup size)
- April 3, 2012: 3-inch hail (teacup size)
- May 27, 2024: 2.75-inch hail (baseball size)
How old Irving homes are
The median home in Irving was built in 1986, and 36% of the city's 102,512 housing units predate 1980. Many of these houses are likely on their second roof or nearing the point where they need one.
Sources: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database (hail reports since 2006 within 8 miles of Irving); U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year estimates. Data pulled September 2026.
