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Roofing & Solar in Plano, Texas

Licensed, certified, and actually local. Free inspections across Plano and Collin County — available 24/7.

NTX Solar & Construction has been putting roofs on North Texas homes for over twenty years. In Plano, that means knowing Collin County's permit desk, knowing which storms actually hit which neighborhoods, and knowing the difference between a roof that needs replacing and one that needs a $300 repair.

Plano is our home base — and it sits dead center in the DFW hail corridor. 224 hail reports within ten miles since 2004, and the largest stone on record is four and a half inches.

Hail and storm history in Plano

Dead center of the DFW hail corridor. Plano has the second-highest report count and the single largest recorded stone of any city we serve.

  • On record 224 hail reports within ten miles since 2004
  • Largest stone 4.50" — bigger than a grapefruit
  • Peak season April, with 82 reports; May second with 47

Storms Plano homeowners remember

  • April 27, 2026 — 1.75" golf-ball hail in Richardson, four miles out
  • May 6, 2025 — 1.50" hail in Sachse
  • 2016 — insurance industry reporting names Plano and neighboring Wylie among the year’s significant Texas hailstorms, in a record season that topped $5 billion in statewide losses

The Plano housing stock — and what it means for your roof

  • Population 293,028
  • Median year built early 1990s
  • Median home value $465,900
  • Owner-occupied 56.9%
  • Single-family homes 70,355

Around 40% of Plano's housing predates 1990 and another 28.6% is 1990s — so roughly two-thirds of Plano homes are 25 years old or more, sitting in the highest-frequency hail cluster in the metroplex. If you're in east or central Plano and you haven't had your roof looked at since the last big April storm, you're overdue.

Neighborhoods we work in around Plano

  • Willow Bend and Polo Estates
  • Deerfield — 24-hour security and the holiday light displays
  • Whiffletree — 1980s custom homes
  • Kings Ridge in the northwest corner
  • Lakeside on Preston
  • Ridgeview Ranch
  • Forest Creek and Pitman Creek
  • Timber Brook near Oak Point Park
  • The Downtown Plano Arts District around Haggard Park

East and central Plano is 1970s and '80s brick ranch on big lots with mature trees. West Plano is newer and pricier. That matters for one specific reason: ZIP 75075 — east-central Plano — has the most damaging hail reports of any ZIP in the city, and it happens to be exactly where the oldest roofs are.

Plano roofing permits — what's actually required

Plano requires a permit — with a threshold worth knowing: re-roof work not exceeding 25% of the roof does not require a permit. Anything larger does.

Permit fee: $75. Fees are set by the city and change — we confirm the current amount when we pull yours.

General contractor registration runs $100/year plus $10 per vehicle ID tag. Plano runs two inspections, and the second one catches shortcuts: the final includes an attic inspection verifying vent piping through the roof, rafters in position, and water heater and A/C exhaust vents properly reinstalled. Metal panel, metal shingle and concrete or clay tile also need a separate underlayment inspection and non-combustible underlayment.

City of Plano permit information →  ·  Texas does not license roofing contractors at the state level. Requirements are set city by city, which is exactly why the permit rules below differ so much from one suburb to the next.

We pull the permit. You should never be asked to pull your own permit so the contractor doesn't have to register. That shifts the liability to you.

Solar in Plano: the local facts

Plano is served by Oncor, and sits in the deregulated Texas retail market — Oncor delivers the power, and you choose your retail provider. That matters for solar because Texas has no statewide net metering mandate. What you're paid for exported power is a feature of the plan you pick, not a guarantee. We'll show you which providers currently offer a real buyback before you commit to a system size.

Oncor does run incentive programs for solar paired with battery storage through approved participating providers. Oncor publishes eligibility rules but does not publish dollar amounts publicly — so we won't quote you a number we can't stand behind. We'll confirm what's actually available for your address and system before it goes in your proposal.

Before you sign anything solar in 2026

Important 2026 update: the 30% federal residential clean energy credit (Section 25D) expired for systems placed in service after December 31, 2025. Any contractor still advertising “30% off from the federal government” on a cash or financed home solar purchase in 2026 is quoting a credit that no longer exists. Third-party owned structures (lease/PPA) are treated differently under Section 48E. We'll walk you through what actually applies to your situation — and we'll tell you to talk to your tax advisor before you sign anything.

What we do in Plano

  • Residential roofing
    Tear-off and replacement, repairs, and free inspections on Plano homes.
  • Commercial roofing
    Low-slope and membrane systems for Plano businesses and property managers.
  • Storm and hail damage
    Documentation, adjuster meetings, and full scope reporting for Plano claims.
  • Solar installation
    Panels, batteries, and add-ons — with the roof underneath handled by the same company.
  • Gutters and exterior
    Gutters, downspouts and guards, soffit and fascia, siding and trim repair.
  • General contracting
    Full reconstruction, interior finishes, concrete, framing and garage work.

Plano roofing & solar updates

Updated August 31, 2026 for Plano homeowners.

Solar on a Plano roof: the question to settle first

Before anything else: how old is the roof?

Panels last 25 to 30 years. If your Plano 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:

  1. Get an honest roof-age assessment. Not from the solar salesman.
  2. If the roof is within about seven years of replacement, do the roof first, then mount panels on a new deck.
  3. 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.

Questions worth asking any roofer working in Plano

Copy these. Ask them of us and of everyone else you're considering:

  1. Are you registered with the City of Plano, and can I see it? Requirements differ by city — a contractor who works here knows theirs cold.
  2. Where is your office? Not a P.O. box.
  3. Who is actually on my roof — your crew or a subcontractor? Either can be fine. Evasion about it isn't.
  4. What's your general liability limit, and can I get the certificate directly from your carrier?
  5. What does your workmanship warranty cover, for how long, and who honors it if you're not in business?
  6. Will you put the full scope in writing before I sign anything?
  7. What happens if you open the roof and find bad decking? Get the per-sheet number now.

A contractor who gets annoyed at these questions has told you something useful.

Gutters, drip edge, and where Plano water actually goes

Roofing and drainage are one system, and in Plano the failure usually starts at the edge rather than the field.

  • Drip edge is the metal flashing at the eaves and rakes that directs water into the gutter instead of behind it. Several cities we work in require it by code. Without it, water wicks back onto the fascia and rots it from behind.
  • Gutter apron at the eave does the same job where the gutter meets the roof edge. It's cheap and it's routinely skipped.
  • Downspout discharge. Water dumped at the foundation is a foundation problem in North Texas clay — and foundation movement cracks masonry and racks door frames long before it shows on the roof.
  • Valley detail. Open metal or closed-cut, both work when done right. Neither works when a crew relies on caulk.

We look at the whole water path, not just the shingles.

We actually work here

We're not a call center routing your job to whoever answers. Here's the Plano our crews drive past every week:

  • The Plano Balloon Festival every September at Oak Point Park — running since around 1980
  • Legacy West and The Shops at Legacy
  • Oak Point Park & Nature Preserve — 800 acres, the city's largest — plus 200-acre Arbor Hills
  • 4,337 acres of parks and more than 82 miles of trails
  • The Texas Pool — 168,000 gallons, shaped like the state of Texas
  • The Heritage Farmstead Museum and the Interurban Railway Museum
  • Southfork Ranch just down the road

We also serve Frisco, Allen, Richardson, McKinney, Murphy, Wylie and Carrollton.

Free roof inspection in Plano

Written report, photos you keep, no obligation — including when the answer is that your roof is fine. Available 24/7.

Call 469.679.5791Request an inspection

NTX Solar & Construction has been putting roofs on North Texas homes for over twenty years. In Plano, that means knowing Collin County's permit desk, knowing which storms actually hit which neighborhoods, and knowing the difference between a roof that needs replacing and one that needs a $300 repair.

Plano is our home base — and it sits dead center in the DFW hail corridor. 224 hail reports within ten miles since 2004, and the largest stone on record is four and a half inches.

Hail and storm history in Plano

Dead center of the DFW hail corridor. Plano has the second-highest report count and the single largest recorded stone of any city we serve.

  • On record 224 hail reports within ten miles since 2004
  • Largest stone 4.50" — bigger than a grapefruit
  • Peak season April, with 82 reports; May second with 47

Storms Plano homeowners remember

  • April 27, 2026 — 1.75" golf-ball hail in Richardson, four miles out
  • May 6, 2025 — 1.50" hail in Sachse
  • 2016 — insurance industry reporting names Plano and neighboring Wylie among the year’s significant Texas hailstorms, in a record season that topped $5 billion in statewide losses

The Plano housing stock — and what it means for your roof

  • Population 293,028
  • Median year built early 1990s
  • Median home value $465,900
  • Owner-occupied 56.9%
  • Single-family homes 70,355

Around 40% of Plano's housing predates 1990 and another 28.6% is 1990s — so roughly two-thirds of Plano homes are 25 years old or more, sitting in the highest-frequency hail cluster in the metroplex. If you're in east or central Plano and you haven't had your roof looked at since the last big April storm, you're overdue.

Neighborhoods we work in around Plano

  • Willow Bend and Polo Estates
  • Deerfield — 24-hour security and the holiday light displays
  • Whiffletree — 1980s custom homes
  • Kings Ridge in the northwest corner
  • Lakeside on Preston
  • Ridgeview Ranch
  • Forest Creek and Pitman Creek
  • Timber Brook near Oak Point Park
  • The Downtown Plano Arts District around Haggard Park

East and central Plano is 1970s and '80s brick ranch on big lots with mature trees. West Plano is newer and pricier. That matters for one specific reason: ZIP 75075 — east-central Plano — has the most damaging hail reports of any ZIP in the city, and it happens to be exactly where the oldest roofs are.

Plano roofing permits — what's actually required

Plano requires a permit — with a threshold worth knowing: re-roof work not exceeding 25% of the roof does not require a permit. Anything larger does.

Permit fee: $75. Fees are set by the city and change — we confirm the current amount when we pull yours.

General contractor registration runs $100/year plus $10 per vehicle ID tag. Plano runs two inspections, and the second one catches shortcuts: the final includes an attic inspection verifying vent piping through the roof, rafters in position, and water heater and A/C exhaust vents properly reinstalled. Metal panel, metal shingle and concrete or clay tile also need a separate underlayment inspection and non-combustible underlayment.

City of Plano permit information →  ·  Texas does not license roofing contractors at the state level. Requirements are set city by city, which is exactly why the permit rules below differ so much from one suburb to the next.

We pull the permit. You should never be asked to pull your own permit so the contractor doesn't have to register. That shifts the liability to you.

Solar in Plano: the local facts

Plano is served by Oncor, and sits in the deregulated Texas retail market — Oncor delivers the power, and you choose your retail provider. That matters for solar because Texas has no statewide net metering mandate. What you're paid for exported power is a feature of the plan you pick, not a guarantee. We'll show you which providers currently offer a real buyback before you commit to a system size.

Oncor does run incentive programs for solar paired with battery storage through approved participating providers. Oncor publishes eligibility rules but does not publish dollar amounts publicly — so we won't quote you a number we can't stand behind. We'll confirm what's actually available for your address and system before it goes in your proposal.

Before you sign anything solar in 2026

Important 2026 update: the 30% federal residential clean energy credit (Section 25D) expired for systems placed in service after December 31, 2025. Any contractor still advertising “30% off from the federal government” on a cash or financed home solar purchase in 2026 is quoting a credit that no longer exists. Third-party owned structures (lease/PPA) are treated differently under Section 48E. We'll walk you through what actually applies to your situation — and we'll tell you to talk to your tax advisor before you sign anything.

What we do in Plano

  • Residential roofing
    Tear-off and replacement, repairs, and free inspections on Plano homes.
  • Commercial roofing
    Low-slope and membrane systems for Plano businesses and property managers.
  • Storm and hail damage
    Documentation, adjuster meetings, and full scope reporting for Plano claims.
  • Solar installation
    Panels, batteries, and add-ons — with the roof underneath handled by the same company.
  • Gutters and exterior
    Gutters, downspouts and guards, soffit and fascia, siding and trim repair.
  • General contracting
    Full reconstruction, interior finishes, concrete, framing and garage work.

Plano roofing & solar updates

Updated August 31, 2026 for Plano homeowners.

Solar on a Plano roof: the question to settle first

Before anything else: how old is the roof?

Panels last 25 to 30 years. If your Plano 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:

  1. Get an honest roof-age assessment. Not from the solar salesman.
  2. If the roof is within about seven years of replacement, do the roof first, then mount panels on a new deck.
  3. 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.

Questions worth asking any roofer working in Plano

Copy these. Ask them of us and of everyone else you're considering:

  1. Are you registered with the City of Plano, and can I see it? Requirements differ by city — a contractor who works here knows theirs cold.
  2. Where is your office? Not a P.O. box.
  3. Who is actually on my roof — your crew or a subcontractor? Either can be fine. Evasion about it isn't.
  4. What's your general liability limit, and can I get the certificate directly from your carrier?
  5. What does your workmanship warranty cover, for how long, and who honors it if you're not in business?
  6. Will you put the full scope in writing before I sign anything?
  7. What happens if you open the roof and find bad decking? Get the per-sheet number now.

A contractor who gets annoyed at these questions has told you something useful.

Gutters, drip edge, and where Plano water actually goes

Roofing and drainage are one system, and in Plano the failure usually starts at the edge rather than the field.

  • Drip edge is the metal flashing at the eaves and rakes that directs water into the gutter instead of behind it. Several cities we work in require it by code. Without it, water wicks back onto the fascia and rots it from behind.
  • Gutter apron at the eave does the same job where the gutter meets the roof edge. It's cheap and it's routinely skipped.
  • Downspout discharge. Water dumped at the foundation is a foundation problem in North Texas clay — and foundation movement cracks masonry and racks door frames long before it shows on the roof.
  • Valley detail. Open metal or closed-cut, both work when done right. Neither works when a crew relies on caulk.

We look at the whole water path, not just the shingles.

We actually work here

We're not a call center routing your job to whoever answers. Here's the Plano our crews drive past every week:

  • The Plano Balloon Festival every September at Oak Point Park — running since around 1980
  • Legacy West and The Shops at Legacy
  • Oak Point Park & Nature Preserve — 800 acres, the city's largest — plus 200-acre Arbor Hills
  • 4,337 acres of parks and more than 82 miles of trails
  • The Texas Pool — 168,000 gallons, shaped like the state of Texas
  • The Heritage Farmstead Museum and the Interurban Railway Museum
  • Southfork Ranch just down the road

We also serve Frisco, Allen, Richardson, McKinney, Murphy, Wylie and Carrollton.

Free roof inspection in Plano

Written report, photos you keep, no obligation — including when the answer is that your roof is fine. Available 24/7.

Call 469.679.5791Request an inspection

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