AVCO Roofing

Donnie Parkinson started AVCO Roofing in Tyler in 2007. When he passed in 2014, Heath Hicks stepped in, kept the crews together, and has been running the operation in the dozen-plus years since. That kind of ownership continuity after a founder's death is genuinely uncommon, and the company has kept growing through it, expanding into Longview and Bixby, Oklahoma, with over a hundred employees across the operation today.

The credentials hold up at the scale they're working at. AVCO carries GAF Commercial certification, which matters most on larger commercial and multi-family projects, along with GAF and TAMKO credentials on the residential side. The BBB profile is clean and accredited. The labor warranty runs five years, well past the one-year standard most East Texas competitors offer, and that gap is the right thing to surface when comparing bids.

For Sulphur Springs homeowners, AVCO runs its work in this area out of the Tyler headquarters, roughly an hour east. That's not unusual for a company covering a region this size, but it does mean your project will be coordinated remotely rather than out of a local shop. The day-of contact and the follow-up process after the install closes out are the things to settle on the first call.

What makes AVCO worth a closer look is the backstory. This isn't a company that showed up after the last hailstorm and set up a temporary office. It's been operating since 2007, survived a full leadership transition, and built a real multi-state operation from a Tyler base. When you call, ask for references from recent installs in the Hopkins County area and confirm the five-year labor warranty is spelled out in writing before you sign.