Hobbs Roof Pros: Roof Replacement, Leak Repair, Metal & Low-Slope Work
Roofing for Hobbs and Lea County, built around the decade your house went up. Free written estimates.
New Mexico GS-21 licensed roofing contractor·City of Hobbs permits pulled and inspections closed·Line-item written scopes, not lump sums·Photo record of the deck handed to every owner
Hobbs Roof Pros handles roof replacement, leak repair, storm damage, metal roofing and low-slope work across Hobbs and Lea County, on asphalt shingle, mechanically seamed Galvalume, modified bitumen and single-ply membrane. We hold the New Mexico GS-21 roofing classification and we pull a City of Hobbs permit on every re-roof inside the city limits.
Almost everything we replace was built by one of two oil booms. Roughly two thirds of the housing here predates 1980, and another large block went up between 2010 and 2019, while the 1990s produced fewer homes than any decade since the 1940s. Those two cohorts fail in different ways and want different assemblies, so the first thing we establish is which one you own.
The rest is climate. This is high plains at 3,642 feet, semi-arid, with most of its rain arriving in a handful of summer thunderstorms and a daily temperature swing that works sealant apart faster than water ever does. Long dry stretches let a small flashing defect go unnoticed for months, so we inspect for the failure you cannot see rather than the stain you can.
Our Roofing Services in Hobbs, NM
Roof Replacement
Before anyone quotes a shingle color, we want to know what decade put the house up. In Hobbs that one answer moves the cost of a re-roof further than brand or profile ever does, and it decides the order we work in.
Roof Leak Repair
A leak in Hobbs is almost never new. Rain arrives in a handful of summer thunderstorms, so a defect that started in July can sit dry and silent until the next real cell crosses the county in August or the following spring.
Storm Damage Restoration
The trucks that show up after a Lea County storm are not always from Lea County. When the rig count is high and money is moving through Hobbs, out-of-area crews follow it here, and they leave on the same signal they arrived on.
Hail Damage Roofing
Hobbs is not a hail town in the way the caprock cities to the north are. We sit below the corridor that gets hammered every spring, and most years the hail that reaches Lea County is small, brief, and does not open a roof.
Wind Damage Roofing
There is nothing between Hobbs and the horizon. The Llano Estacado gives wind a clean run at every roof in the county, and unlike hail, wind does not need a rare event here.
Roof Inspections
Houses in Hobbs change hands on the rig count. When the basin is busy the market moves fast and roofs get inspected under deadline, and when it slows the same houses sit and the same roofs age another two years without anyone looking at them.
Asphalt Shingle Roofs
Asphalt covers most of Hobbs and it should. What we argue about is which asphalt, because a shingle that performs beautifully in a humid climate can be the wrong purchase at 3,642 feet in a place with this much sun and this large a daily swing.
Metal Roofing
Metal is the native building language of the oil patch. Every yard, shop, and pump station between here and the state line wears it, so people assume the panel on a service building is the right panel for a house.
Tile Roofing
Expect to be argued out of tile on this page. It is a superb roof in the right market and Hobbs is not one, for reasons that have nothing to do with the product and everything to do with who is left here to service it.
Flat & Low-Slope Roofing
A low-slope roof in Hobbs works as a drainage system for about five days a year. The other three hundred and sixty it is a horizontal surface collecting whatever the wind carries, which is a great deal more than most owners realize.
Roof Coatings & Sealing
Coating crews arrive in Hobbs on the same schedule as everything else: when there is money in the county. They knock doors, they are persuasive, and a good share of what they sell here should not have been sold.
Roof Ventilation
The usual case for ventilation is moisture. In a county with this little humidity, that case barely applies, and repeating it here would be borrowing an argument from a wetter place.
Skylights
Hobbs gets a great deal of sun. That fact reverses the usual argument for a skylight: nobody here is short of daylight, and the risk of a large piece of glass in a roof is not darkness, it is the heat that comes with the light.
Gutters & Downspouts
Most houses in Hobbs do not need to be fully guttered, and we would rather lose the larger sale than sell you two hundred feet of aluminum that spends the year holding dirt. This is a downsell page and we mean it.
Fascia & Soffit
Fascia fails differently in a dry county. Elsewhere it rots.
Chimney & Wall Flashing
Flashing is where nearly every roof in Hobbs eventually gives up, and the reason is the daily temperature swing rather than the annual rainfall. Sealant that would live for years in a mild climate is being stretched and compressed here every single day.
Emergency Tarping
A tarp in Hobbs is a two-week product. Between the ultraviolet load and the wind off open ground, poly sheeting degrades and tears here faster than in most of the country.
Commercial Roofing
Commercial roofing in Lea County means metal buildings more often than it means membrane. Service yards, pipe shops, equipment barns, and the light industrial strip out along the highways are almost all pre-engineered steel, and that decides the conversation.
Insurance Claim Help
The most common advice we give on claims in Hobbs is not to file one. Between a housing stock that skews old and a newer cohort that is genuinely still young, a large share of the roofs we look at are either past arguing about or nowhere near damaged.
Why Hobbs Chooses Hobbs Roof Pros
- ✓We price the roof around the decade the house was built, because two thirds of Hobbs predates 1980 and the deck under it varies block by block.
- ✓Deck repair is a named unit price in the estimate rather than a change order discovered on the second morning of a tear-off.
- ✓We will talk you out of a coating, a claim, a skylight or a full gutter wrap when the honest answer is to spend nothing.
- ✓Material comes from Midland, Lubbock or El Paso, so we order before tear-off and plan the schedule around the real wait.
- ✓Every job closes with photographs, permit record and manufacturer paperwork, which is what survives when contractors follow the rig count out.
- ✓We stay through the slow years, so the workmanship warranty is issued by somebody who will still be in Lea County to honor it.
About Hobbs Roof Pros in Hobbs, NM
Hobbs Roof Pros works Hobbs, Lovington, Eunice, Jal and the rest of Lea County, plus the Eddy and Chaves County towns down the Pecos. What we are is a roofing company, not a storm company, and in this county that distinction carries weight: the crews that appear when the rig count rises are gone by the time a warranty means anything, and we are still answering the phone in the slow years.
The way we read a roof here starts with the calendar. This city was built by two oil booms with a long bust between them, so a Hobbs roof is usually either well past its service life or barely started, and the middle-aged roof that dominates most markets is thin on the ground. Everything we recommend follows from which side of that gap your house sits on.
Some jobs we would rather not have. If your shingles are a decade old and someone has told you a coating will extend them, we will not sell you one, because nothing sprayed on a worn laminate roof does what that pitch claims it will. If a sixty-year-old roof is worn out, we will discourage a claim on it. If the roof is simply fine, we will write that down and tell you to call in three years.
Service Areas
Hobbs Roof Pros serves Hobbs, NM and surrounding communities including:
How It Works
We establish the cohort first
Before pricing anything we find out what decade built the house and what has been done to the roof since. On pre-1980 stock that means opening a small area and looking at the sheathing. On newer stock it usually means checking nail placement and intake air. The number we give you depends on that answer more than on the shingle you choose.
A written scope with the details named
You get a line-item scope that names the underlayment, the valley method, the fastener, the flashing pieces to be replaced and the drainage work, plus the permit and inspection we will pull. Anything we cannot see yet is listed as a unit price rather than hidden, so a surprise costs what the sheet says it costs.
Scheduled around supply and weather
Material comes up from Midland, over from Lubbock or out of El Paso, so we order before we tear off and we plan for the wait after a basin-wide storm. We work around the summer thunderstorm pattern, dry in each day, and do not open more roof than we can close before the afternoon builds.
A photo record you keep
Every job closes with photographs of the deck, the flashings and the finished assembly, the permit record, the manufacturer paperwork and our workmanship warranty. In a county where contractors follow the rig count out, that file is what proves to a buyer, a lender or an adjuster what is actually on your house.
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What Hobbs Customers Say
They opened a corner of the roof before quoting and showed me the sheathing photos. The deck price was in the estimate up front instead of appearing later. Two other bids never went up there at all.
Told me my ten-year-old roof did not need anything and to call back in three years. No charge for the look. When a wind event finally took a section they came the same week and matched it.
Re-roofed the shop building over the existing metal so we never shut down. They rinsed and cleared the pans and showed my foreman how to keep the dust from packing in at the eave.
Talked me out of the coating a door knocker had sold me on and fixed the two flashings that were actually leaking. Sent photographs of everything. Honest people, and the price was under half what I expected.
Commercial and oilfield roofing across Lea and Eddy County
Most commercial roofs out here are pre-engineered metal buildings: service yards, pipe shops, equipment barns and the light industrial strip along the highways, alongside schools, churches and retail in town. We retrofit over existing panel where a building cannot stop operating, favor mechanically attached membrane that a local crew can open and reclose, and design drainage for windblown fines that set hard in a scupper. Phased work is normal when a budget only covers the worst section this year.
- ✓Standing seam retrofit over existing metal panel with no shutdown
- ✓Mechanically attached TPO and EPDM over high-density cover board
- ✓Two-ply SBS systems on older built-up commercial decks
- ✓Oversized drains and overflow scuppers designed for caliche fines
- ✓Rooftop unit curbs rebuilt and flashed rather than caulked
- ✓Silicone and acrylic restoration where the substrate tests dry
- ✓Condition mapping with sections priced separately for phasing
- ✓Documented maintenance schedule with photographs each visit
Frequently Asked Questions
Does New Mexico require a license to roof my house in Hobbs?
Yes. Roofing is a licensed classification in New Mexico, GS-21, issued by the Construction Industries Division, and you can look up any contractor's number before you sign. That is worth doing here in particular, because crews follow the rig count into Lea County during good years and a truck with a magnetic sign is not evidence of anything. The City of Hobbs also requires a permit for a re-roof inside the city limits.
How long should a roof last in Hobbs with this little rain?
Less than the brochure suggests, because rain is not what wears roofs out here. Ultraviolet load at 3,642 feet and a daily temperature swing of forty degrees or more work an asphalt mat until it goes brittle, so a standard laminate often gives twelve to eighteen years on a south or west slope. An SBS-modified shingle or a metal roof stretches that considerably.
My house was built in the 1960s. Why is your estimate higher than my neighbor's?
Usually because we have looked under the roof and priced the deck. Two thirds of Hobbs housing predates 1980 and was built quickly during an oil boom, so sheathing condition varies house to house on one block. A bid that assumes perfect decking is cheaper on paper and turns into a change order on day two. We would rather show you the sheathing photograph first.
Is it worth filing an insurance claim on my roof?
Often not, and we will tell you before you file. On a roof built in the 1960s an adjuster will generally record deterioration rather than storm damage, and the denial still lands on your claims history. On a roof from the last decade the damage frequently comes in under a percentage-based wind and hail deductible. Read your declarations page, then let us document what is actually up there.
Should I put a metal roof on a house in Lea County?
On simple geometry it is an excellent choice, provided you pick the right attachment. Exposed-fastener panel is fine on a shop and works poorly long term on a low-pitch house, because thermal movement elongates the screw holes. We prefer mechanically seamed Galvalume on expansion clips. Plan to rinse the pans once a year, since there is not enough rain here to wash dust off a panel.
Do I need gutters on a Hobbs house?
Most houses here do not need to be fully guttered and we will say so. With most of the annual rain arriving in a few summer storms, a full wrap spends the year collecting caliche fines that cement into the trough. We recommend targeted runs over entry doors, over walls that are staining, and where the drip line is undermining a slab, with downspouts extended well clear.