New Construction & Tract Homes

On a production build, the roof is not a standalone trade — it is a gate. Framing and sheathing finish, the roof dries in, and only then can mechanical, electrical, and plumbing rough-in proceed with any protection over their work, insulation follow, and drywall be scheduled. A roofer who misses dry-in by four days does not cost you four days of roofing, they cost you four days on every trade stacked behind it, times however many lots are moving at once.

That is why sequencing gets set against your framing calendar rather than against ours: dry-in immediately behind sheathing and cornice, then final roof after the roof penetrations are set. Plumbing vents, range and dryer terminations, bath fan exhausts, and HVAC flues all pass through the deck, and every one of them set after the final roof is a hole cut in a finished system.

A community is not twenty roofs, it is one roof repeated with three or four plan types and a color palette. Consistency comes from putting the same crews on the same community for its duration, so the details — valley treatment, step flashing at the garage return, ridge vent runs, cap layout at the hip intersections — get built the same way on every lot. It also means fewer plan-specific questions land on your desk after the first few homes.

Material staging follows the same logic. Loads are scheduled to the lot and the day rather than dropped early, which keeps drives clear for concrete and framing deliveries and keeps material off unfinished lots where it becomes a weather and theft problem.

Punch items on roofing are usually small and always urgent, because they sit between you and a closing date: a scuffed cap, a vent boot to reset after the plumber’s adjustment, a section of ridge vent to re-secure, debris or fasteners missed in a final sweep. Those get turned quickly rather than batched, because a punch list that waits for a convenient trip is a punch list that delays a close.

Closeout also includes the handoff to the eventual homeowner: what system went on the house, what the manufacturer coverage is, and who to call. Getting that documented at closing is what keeps a year-two service call from turning into a warranty dispute between you and a homeowner who does not know what is on their roof.

CMAC continues to service the homes it roofs after the builder’s warranty period ends. Homeowners can register their roof directly with CMAC, which means when a storm rolls through the community three years after your last close, they call a contractor who already has the specification for their house — and the call does not come back to your warranty department.

CMAC is veteran-owned, GAF Master Elite® certified, a GAF President’s Club award winner, an NRCA member, and rated A+ by the Better Business Bureau. Builder work runs across all five states CMAC serves — Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Georgia — from seven markets, so a builder operating in more than one metro deals with one roofer instead of four.