Inspected by Elliott Smith, owner of Texan Roofworks. Elliott has construction and general-contracting experience and is an FAA Part 107-certified drone pilot.
The property
A 3,906 sq ft, 12-facet roof in Krum, TX — predominant pitch 8/12. Composition shingle roof, standard turtle/box vents, two corner downspouts.
Inspection date
August 2, 2026.
What we found
We flew the full roof with the drone and walked the accessible sections. Multiple facets showed classic hail bruising — soft, circular impact marks with granule displacement, visible in the photo below as the lighter, matted patch on the shingle surface.
To confirm what we were seeing wasn’t normal wear, we marked test squares directly on the roof in yellow chalk (the same method an insurance adjuster uses) and circled individual hail hits inside each square. One of our marked squares — labeled “9RF” — is shown below with the hits circled. We repeated this across several facets, not just one, because a single test square doesn’t tell you whether the damage is isolated or roof-wide.
We also noted:
- A prior temporary repair — an orange-cap fastened synthetic tarp — already in place on the front hip/valley wing over the garage
- Hail-strike paint marks on both downspout corner boxes
- One cracked accent-window pane below the eave near the garage
- Roughly 7–8 aging turtle/box vents that don’t meet current airflow best practice
Repair vs. replacement reasoning
This one didn’t call for a full tear-off. We scoped it as a targeted repair — address the areas with confirmed damage and re-check the surrounding facets, rather than replacing a roof where the damage wasn’t dense enough across the whole surface to justify it.
Roofing system and scope
Repair scope: replace the temporary tarp on the front hip/valley wing over the garage with a proper flashing and shingle repair, address the hail-marked downspout corners, and fix the cracked accent-window pane near the garage eave. Neighboring facets were re-checked for secondary damage before closing out the job.
Photos: original drone imagery from the inspection, Krum, TX, August 2, 2026.
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