§ 05.00About RA Contracting · TX + OH
Roof, HVAC, and full-home remodel under one PM. Texas-rooted. Ohio-expanded. We log the damage, build the scope, meet the adjuster on the roof. The carpenter who measures your kitchen is the one who hangs the cabinets. We won't push a service you do not need.
We started in Texas. Hail country. The densest hail-claim market in the country, before any of this got fashionable. The reps, the project managers, and the crews know the carriers, the adjusters, the codes, and the houses. That is the company.
Roofing was the bread-and-butter. Working the insurance process for the homeowner is the discipline. The rest grew from there — full exterior envelopes, interior remodels handled by our own carpenters, an HVAC team that calculates the load before quoting the system, and a single project manager who carries the job from demo through punch list. One crew. One warranty. One phone number.
We expanded into Ohio because the same insurance-process discipline that works on a DFW hailstorm works on a Cleveland ice-dam claim — and homeowners there deserve a contractor who is not going home in May.
The honest version. No founder folklore — just the four turns that built the company you are talking to today.
Started in Texas hail country. Door-knocking after storms, learning every adjuster on every block.
Hired the first project manager whose only job was the insurance side. The supplements (the follow-up estimates carriers owe but rarely pay first time) started landing.
Brought exterior, interior, and HVAC under the same roof. One project manager from demo to punch list.
Operating across 14 Texas cities and the greater Cleveland metro. Same crew standard, same workmanship warranty, same phone number — Texas or Ohio.
The principles the crews actually run by — not framed-on-the-wall values. Each one has cost us a job at some point. Each one has saved more.
Most roof leaks are not roof leaks. They are decking, kickout flashing (the small metal piece that diverts water away from a wall), or a window seal nobody inspected. We find the actual source before we write the scope. Reflex-replacement does not fix what reflex-inspection missed.
Roofing, HVAC, exterior, and interior — all under one project manager. No sub handoffs at the seam, no warranty-blame routine when something fails six months in.
We know how every major carrier writes a scope. That is the difference between a full claim and a partial one — and the reason adjusters who have met us on a roof tend to remember.
Texas law makes it illegal for a contractor to waive your deductible. We follow the rule and we say so up front. Anyone who promises otherwise is putting your claim at risk.
A free roof inspection takes about an hour. We document the damage with photos and notes you can hand the adjuster — or hand to us to handle the claim with you.
Most home contractors sub everything. Roofing goes to one crew, siding to another, trim to a third. The carpenter who knows what a square corner looks like is rarely the one swinging the hammer on the house. The buyer becomes the project manager between four trades and brokers the warranty hand-off whenever something goes wrong at the seam.
On the insurance side, it is worse. Storm-chasers show up after a hailstorm, sign as many homes as they can, file the claim through whichever supplement mill they are partnered with, and disappear before the supplement gets denied. The homeowner is left holding a half-finished roof and a carrier who already paid out.
And when the leak comes back six months later, the original contractor does not answer the phone — because the leak was not a roof leak. It was rotted decking, a kickout flashing the original installer skipped, or a window seal nobody inspected.
Each project — roof, HVAC, kitchen, exterior envelope — runs through one PM from demo to punch list. Tell us what your house needs and we will walk you through how we would run it.
Roofing and HVAC are the everyday work. Remodeling is the parallel practice. Knowing every major carrier's claim playbook is the discipline that ties all four together — and the reason a single phone number actually means something.
Asphalt, hail-rated impact-resistant shingles, stone-coated steel, commercial flat. Texas hail discipline. Ohio winter detail. Ice-and-water barrier, balanced ventilation, freeze-thaw protocol. Tear-off, not overlay.
Tear-off, not overlay. The warranty starts at the deck.
We run the load calculation before the quote, so the system runs efficiently for the long haul. Same-day dispatch on no-cool calls. No overtime surprises on the invoice.
Whole-home remodels, exterior-only envelopes, interior craft work, or a single scoped room. Plywood-box cabinetry. Six-sided finish. The carpenter who measures the room is the one who builds the cabinet.
The carpenter who measures the room is the one who builds the cabinet.
We document the damage, build the scope, meet the adjuster on the roof. We have learned how every major carrier writes a scope — that is the difference between the full pay-out you are owed and a partial one.
Four things we will not bend on. Not for a low bid, not for a fast close.
— set in 2010, still posted in each truck.
A leak that came back. A storm that hit yesterday. A remodel you have been putting off. Call or send a note — we will tell you the honest first step, even if it is not us.
Most contractors are single-state operators with single-state instincts. We built the same discipline for both climates — because the underlying job (read the damage, document the scope, work with the adjuster, do the work right) does not change at the state line.
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A free inspection takes about an hour. We won't push a service you do not need. We will tell you the honest first step, even if it is not us. RA Contracting · Texas + Ohio · since 2010.
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