Standing Seam Metal Roofing in San Antonio and Austin, TX

Look closely at a standing seam metal roof and you won't find a single screw head. Long vertical panels meet at raised seams. Underneath, clips screw into the deck, and the panel edges snap or crimp down over them. That's the whole trick, and it's why standing seam outlasts screw-down metal (R-panel, corrugated, "ag panel") by so much. Austin summers cook the rubber washers on exposed screws. Once they crack, you're chasing leaks.

You'll make two big decisions. One is the seam. Snap-lock panels press together by hand and work on most residential pitches, while mechanically seamed panels get crimped shut with a tool and do better on low slopes or wide roofs that catch a lot of wind. The other is gauge. Given the choice, we'll install 24-gauge steel over 26-gauge every time, because the thicker panel resists hail dents and oil canning, that slight waviness you sometimes see on thin flat panels.

Still deciding between metal and shingles? Our metal roofing page compares them, and it puts standing seam side by side with R-panel too.

Roofs around Austin take a beating from heat and from hail. Standing seam deals with both. A PVDF-coated panel in a light or reflective color bounces a lot of the sun's energy back off the roof, and because of the clips, the panel can move with each afternoon's temperature swing without fighting it.

Lately, though, it's mostly about hail. Hail up to four inches fell on Round Rock and north Austin on September 24, 2023, and the National Weather Service called it the most costly damage ever to hit the Austin region. Then Georgetown and east Round Rock got hit again on April 22, 2025. Most standing seam panels have a Class 4 impact rating under UL 2218, which is the test where a two-inch steel ball gets dropped on the panel. A Class 4 shingle survives it by losing granules. A 24-gauge steel panel might pick up a little dimple. It keeps shedding water either way.

So it's no surprise standing seam is the go-to profile on custom and semi-custom homes in Austin's western neighborhoods, like Westlake, Barton Creek, Steiner Ranch, Lakeway, and on toward Dripping Springs. Plenty of Round Rock homeowners asked for it when they re-roofed after 2023. On the San Antonio end of the Hill Country, you see the same look on new builds around Boerne and Fair Oaks Ranch, which our San Antonio crews cover directly.

What about the HOA? Texas Property Code 202.011 limits how far an association can go to block hail-resistant and energy-efficient roofing, and most Austin-area HOAs sign off on standing seam in a standard color without much fuss. Check with your architectural committee before ordering panels anyway. We'll put the submittal together.

Lakeway or Boerne, every standing seam metal roof installation we do goes through the same six steps.

1. Free estimate and measure. We walk the roof, check the decking, pitch and penetrations, and talk with you about panel width, seam type and color.
2. Tear-off and deck inspection. The old shingles come off. Any soft or rotted decking is replaced before anything covers it, the same rule we follow on every roof replacement.
3. High-temperature underlayment. Metal runs hot, and regular synthetic underlayment can stick to the panels. So we use a high-temp product under metal, plus ice-and-water membrane at valleys and eaves.
4. Panels, clips, and seams. Each panel is formed to the full length of the slope, so there are no horizontal laps. Clips go in at the manufacturer's spacing, and every seam gets snapped or crimped.
5. Trim, flashing, and penetrations. Ridge caps, eave and rake trim, sidewall and headwall flashing, pipe boots made for metal. This is where cheap metal jobs fall apart, and it's where we take our time.
6. Final walk and cleanup. We run a magnet for stray screws and metal shavings, then walk the roof with you before the crew leaves.

Many of our crews have worked alongside us for over 20 years. Texas-RRR has completed 2,800+ projects around the San Antonio and Austin metros, and we're registered and insured.

A standing seam roof can take a hard hail hit and stay completely watertight. Good. It may also come out of the storm with dimples, and some Texas homeowner policies carry a cosmetic damage exclusion for metal roofing. Under that endorsement, the insurer only pays when hail hurts how the roof works, not how it looks. Ask your agent about it before you buy the roof. After the storm is too late.

If insurance is paying, our in-house staff includes former insurance adjusters with 30+ years of claim experience. They meet the adjuster, document the loss and handle supplements through our six-step claim process. After a metal roof claim, Google reviewer Cory L. wrote: "Our roof color is a much better match to our brick and wife is happy."

Already have a metal roof with a leak or a loose panel? You probably need metal roof repair, not a new roof. For storm damage, start on our hail damage roof repair page.