Rush Builders
RUSH BUILDERS ROOFING AND SOLAR · 5.0 ★ ON GOOGLE
Hail inspections, replacements, and insurance help from the crew that earned its name south of the river.
Free inspection · No obligation · Local & family-run
Our first office sat right in the 78745. From Bouldin Creek down South Lamar and Manchaca to Slaughter Lane, through Westgate, Sunset Valley, and Circle C — these are the streets where our earliest customers still send us their neighbors.
Circle C Ranch · Shady Hollow · Onion Creek · Southpark Meadows · Westgate · Travis Country · Dove Springs · Garrison Park — zips 78704, 78744, 78745, 78748, 78749. Estate home? See our luxury & estate roofing page.
Hail & storm damage
Free slope-by-slope inspections, documented properly.
Roof replacement
Many 2000s-boom South Austin roofs are aging out — insurance can cover most of it.
Denied claims
Reversed regularly with a proper re-inspection.
Repairs
Leaks and lifted shingles fixed before the next storm finds them.
After every hail event, out-of-town crews flood South Austin driveways, do fast work, and vanish. We live here. Our 5.0-star Google rating is built on homes in these neighborhoods, and we still answer the phone years after the job.
Roof problems in South Austin follow patterns. The housing stock south of the river spans seventy years — 1950s bungalows in 78704, 80s and 90s ranches through Westgate and Cherry Creek, and the huge wave of 2000s construction in Circle C, Shady Hollow, and along Slaughter Lane. Each generation has its own weak points, and we’ve had our hands on all of them.
Thousands of South Austin homes were roofed by production builders in the same few years, usually with entry-grade 3-tab or light architectural shingles rated for 20–25 years. That clock is running out across entire subdivisions simultaneously — which is why you see roofing crews scattered across Circle C after every storm. If your neighbors are replacing and your roof is the same age, a free inspection tells you whether hail already did the work of turning an aging roof into an insurance-covered replacement.
South Austin’s tree canopy is its signature — and a steady source of roof wear. Limbs scrub granules off shingles in every windstorm, debris dams up valleys and gutters, and shaded slopes hold moisture that ages shingles unevenly. If you have oaks over your roofline, the area under them deserves a look every couple of years, storm or no storm.
Tear-offs on older South Austin homes regularly uncover history — a second layer of shingles from a 90s re-roof, plank decking with gaps that modern shingles can’t span, even wood shake hiding underneath. None of it is a crisis, but it changes the job, and it’s exactly why we photograph the deck and bid honestly instead of quoting a fantasy number that grows on day one. If your house predates the 80s, ask any bidder how they price decking surprises — the answer tells you who you’re dealing with.
Our first office was in the 78745, our earliest customers are still referring their neighbors, and our 5.0-star Google rating is built largely on homes between South Lamar and Slaughter. When you call us to a South Austin address, there’s a good chance we’ve already roofed on your street — and we can usually tell you what we found there.
Free inspection, honest answer, zero pressure — and if your roof is fine, we’ll tell you.
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