Before a single shingle comes off
The first hour on site is not roofing at all. Landscaping under the eaves gets tarped, the driveway gets a protected path for foot traffic, and anything breakable near the walls gets moved clear of falling debris.
Wesley walks the roof one more time before tear-off starts, checking that the plan matches what is actually up there. A roof looks different from the ground than it does standing on it, and small surprises get caught here rather than mid-tear-off.
Old layers coming off
Tear-off moves section by section rather than stripping the whole roof bare at once, which keeps the house covered if weather turns during the day. Old shingle, felt and flashing being replaced comes off down to bare decking, and the crew looks at the wood as it clears rather than just clearing it.
On a house re-roofed once already, this is where a second hidden layer sometimes turns up underneath the shingle everyone expected. That gets flagged and priced before moving forward, not discovered after the new roof is already on.
What happens when the decking is soft
Every board gets walked and checked once it is exposed. A soft spot means water has been getting in longer than the shingle damage suggested, and that plywood or plank gets pulled and replaced before anything new goes down. Photos go up so the homeowner sees what was found and swapped.
Skipping this step is the most common shortcut in cheap roofing, and it is the one that causes trouble years later.
Putting the new roof on
Underlayment goes down first, then drip edge, valleys and flashing around chimneys or pipe boots, before a single shingle course starts. Ventilation gets addressed here too, since the ridge is already open and it is the cheapest point to correct airflow that was never right.
Shingle courses run from the eave up, with nailing checked against the pattern Texas wind actually calls for.
The walk-through and the sweep
Once the last course is down, Wesley or another lead walks the finished roof looking for anything that needs a second pass, a nail that missed its mark, a boot that needs another bead of sealant.
The last job of the day, every day, is a magnet sweep of the yard and driveway for stray nails. It takes fifteen minutes and it is the difference between a clean job and a flat tire two weeks later.