McKinney roofing & solar updates
Updated August 25, 2026 for McKinney homeowners.
Solar on a McKinney roof: the question to settle first
Before anything else: how old is the roof?
Panels last 25 to 30 years. If your McKinney roof has eight years left, you are
looking at paying to remove and reset an entire array partway through — a
cost that rarely shows up in the sales presentation. Removal and reinstall on a
typical residential array is not a small number.
The sequence that saves people money:
- Get an honest roof-age assessment. Not from the solar salesman.
- If the roof is within about seven years of replacement, do the
roof first, then mount panels on a new deck.
- If there's storm damage, find out whether the roof is an insurance claim
before panels go on. Panels complicate every future claim on that
roof.
We do both trades, which means we have no incentive to tell you the roof is
fine when it isn't. That's the whole reason to use one company for both.
Roof decking: the part of the McKinney job you never see
The decking is the plywood or plank sheathing under everything else, and it's
where honest and dishonest McKinney roofing jobs separate — because you'll
never see it once the shingles go on.
What matters:
- Soft or delaminated sheets have to be replaced. New
shingles fastened into compromised decking won't hold in a wind event, and
the fasteners back out.
- Older homes may have plank decking with gaps between
boards. Some jurisdictions and most manufacturers require an overlay before
shingles go down. This is common in older Fort Worth and Irving stock and it
is a real added cost — one that should be discussed before the tear-off,
not discovered after.
- Get the per-sheet price in writing before work starts.
This is the single most common place for a surprise charge.
- Several cities inspect decking thickness specifically.
It's on the checklist for a reason.
Repair or replace: how we decide on a McKinney roof
We'd rather repair your McKinney roof than sell you one you don't need. Here's
the actual decision framework:
Repair usually makes sense when the roof is under about
fifteen years old, the damage is localized to one slope or one detail, the
shingles are still pliable, and you can still source a reasonable color match.
Replacement usually makes sense when the shingles have lost
significant granule coverage across multiple slopes, tabs crack when lifted
(that's the asphalt at the end of its plasticity), there are multiple layers
already, the decking is soft, or you're repairing the same roof for the third
time.
The honest middle ground: sometimes the roof has five years
left and a repair buys exactly that, and that's the right call — especially
if you're selling, or if you'd rather replace it on your own schedule than an
emergency one. We'll say so.
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