About · family-owned since 2012
We don't knock doors.
After a big storm, trucks from three states roll into Fort Worth and start knocking. We've never done that. Our work comes from inspections people ask for, and from their neighbours.
The short version
Nine layers, right order.
Most bad roofs aren't bad shingles. They're good shingles on a skipped starter strip, reused flashing, or underlayment laid the wrong way up the slope. Cal started Overcast in 2012 to put roofs on in the order the manufacturers wrote down, and to say so out loud.
We're a fictional company, made for this concept site. But everything we say we'd do is what a good Fort Worth roofer actually does: tear off to the deck, replace soft decking at a price per sheet written down in advance, new flashing every time, and an honest report after a storm, even when the honest answer is "you're fine".
RCAT-style licence #RC-0000-SAMPLE (fictional). $1M general liability. Texas has no state roofing licence, so we hold ourselves to the voluntary one and carry more insurance than it asks for.
Since 2012
How we got here.
- 2012One truck
Cal Brannigan leaves a storm-chasing outfit after a season of watching roofs go on in the wrong order. Starts Overcast with one truck and his brother-in-law.
- 2015First full crew
Six people, every one of them local. The rule that stuck: no door-knocking after storms.
- 2019Class 4, by default
Impact-rated shingles become the first thing we quote, not an upgrade we upsell.
- 2023The test square
Every inspection report gets chalked 10 × 10 ft squares and a hit count, photographed, for every slope.
- 2026Still family
Two crews, one office in the Brannigans' house, and the same nine layers.
House rules
No door-knocking
If we're on your street, someone there called us.
Tear-off, always
We never lay a new roof over an old one.
Prices per sheet
Rotten decking is priced per sheet, in writing, before we start.
New flashing
Old flashing doesn't get bent back into place. Ever.
Your deductible
Yours to pay, by Texas law. We won't pretend otherwise.
Two sweeps
A magnet over the yard and the drive, twice, before we leave.