Roofing in New Deal
Technically New Deal roofs are Lubbock roofs. Practically the challenge is logistics rather than construction.
New Deal is a small town north of Lubbock, close enough to the city that the climate, the housing and the failure modes are essentially the same as everywhere else on this part of the plain. There is no special New Deal roofing problem.
What there is, is a scheduling problem, and it is worth being straightforward about it.
Small jobs in small towns
A roofing company’s day is built around travel. A crew that can do three repairs in central Lubbock can do one out here and spend the rest of the day driving. That is not unwillingness, it is arithmetic, and it means a small repair in New Deal sits lower in the queue than the same repair in town.
After a storm it gets worse, because demand in the city absorbs every crew available and the outlying towns wait.
Two things help. Ask directly whether they take jobs this size at this distance, and take a real answer rather than a polite one. And where it is sensible, group work: if the pipe boots need doing and the gutters need refitting and a vent needs replacing, one visit for all three is a job worth someone’s drive, where any one of them alone is not.
Replacements are different
A full replacement is a big enough job that distance stops mattering much. A crew is coming out for two or three days either way, so you will find you have more choice and better prices on a replacement here than on a repair.
Which occasionally makes the economics awkward: it can be easier to get a whole roof done than to get one small thing fixed. That is a real effect and it is worth resisting, because a replacement you did not need is an expensive way to solve a scheduling problem.
The hail question
New Deal sits north of the city and hail swathes on the South Plains are narrow and move. Being ten miles from Lubbock means almost nothing about whether a storm that hit the city hit you. Judge it on your own roof and your own soft metal, not on what the news says about Lubbock.
Worth doing
Because getting somebody out takes longer here, the value of catching things early is higher. A look at the pipe boots and the flashing every couple of years, and after any real storm, turns emergencies into scheduled work. On the plain, an emergency is the expensive way to do everything.