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Every replacement exposes the deck. In Fort Worth that matters more than it does elsewhere, because the city treats the covering and the structure as separate things: shingle work does not require a permit, while replacing decking, sheathing boards, rafters or ridge boards does. So the condition of the deck is discovered halfway through a job whose paperwork position depends on it.
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What is different here
Three things that decide how a roof job goes in this city, and that are not the same one town over.
Fort Worth states that shingle work needs no permit, while decking, lathing or sheathing boards, rafters and ridge boards do. A replacement can begin in the first category and end in the second. Confirm the current requirement before the scope is finalised.
The contract should define how deteriorated decking is identified, how it is photographed, who authorises replacement, and how it is charged by unit. That is a decision made calmly at a table, not on the day with a crew standing on an open roof.
Where a property sits in a historic district, the city notes that exterior changes may require a Certificate of Appropriateness. Confirm that before a profile, material or colour is chosen, rather than after the order has been placed.
Local context
The only moment the whole deck is visible is the few hours between tear-off and dry-in. That window is when sagging, delamination, old repairs, previous layers and fastening problems become findable. Photographs taken then are the only evidence that will ever exist of what the new roof was built on.
A decking allowance in a proposal is a provisional figure, not a decision. It needs a unit rate, a documentation requirement and a named person who approves the quantity. Without those three, the allowance quietly becomes whatever the crew reports it was.
Rafters and ridge boards are rarely part of a re-roof, and when they are, the job has changed character. Fort Worth's rule recognises that by treating them separately. A proposal that lists structural members should be explaining why they are there, not carrying them as boilerplate.
Questions
It depends on what the work includes. The city states shingle work does not require a permit, while decking, sheathing, rafter and ridge board replacement does. Exposing sound decking is not the same as replacing it. Confirm the requirement for the actual scope with the city.
By unit, agreed before work starts, with photographs of each area replaced. A lump sum for unknown decking is a figure nobody can check afterwards in either direction. The point is that the quantity is verifiable once the roof is closed.
Not necessarily. Many decks are sound and are re-used under a new covering. The point is that the answer is unknown until the covering is off, so the process for handling it belongs in the agreement rather than arriving as a surprise.
Whoever is on the roof, in the few hours between tear-off and dry-in, because that is the only window in which the deck exists as something anybody can look at. What makes the set usable later is that each plane is identifiable, that replaced areas are shown in place before underlayment covers them, and that the count is recorded against the images. Agree beforehand that it will happen. Nobody can produce it afterwards.
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Short, routing-only questions. Nothing here asks you to diagnose the roof yourself.