Tilcor stone coated steel, proven worldwide
Tilcor is a globally established stone coated steel manufacturer whose systems are installed across climate environments from tropical coasts to cold mountain country, decades of real-world performance backing every warranty. Next Gen Roofing & Construction installs Tilcor systems across Central Texas, where the brand’s engineering meets a hail belt that tests it exactly the way it was built to be tested.
The construction under the stone
Tilcor systems build on a Galvalume steel base panel, aluminum-zinc alloy coated for corrosion resistance, finished with acrylic-bonded stone granules providing UV protection, aesthetics, and sound dampening. Tilcor’s proprietary coating and bonding processes drive granule retention and long-term color stability, which is what keeps a twenty year old field looking like a choice instead of a compromise.
Performance where it counts
- UL 2218 Class 4 impact rating, the highest classification available, with the insurance premium discounts many Texas carriers attach to it.
- Interlocking panel engineering with wind performance proven across cyclone-rated markets worldwide.
- Class A fire-rated assemblies for wildland-adjacent properties.
- Lightweight construction in the 100 to 150 pounds per square range, tile looks without tile’s structural demands.
The profile lineup
Tilcor’s range covers four architectural languages. Shake and Stone Cut Shake deliver the textured, dimensional wood-shake look in steel that eliminates wood’s vulnerabilities, suiting craftsman and Hill Country builds. The Shingle profile gives a familiar dimensional look that dramatically outperforms the asphalt it resembles. Roman Tile flows with Mediterranean curves for stucco and Spanish architecture, and Milano Tile offers a flatter, more restrained profile for transitional homes where subtlety wins. Samples on your roofline turn the catalog into a decision.
Installed to the specification that warranties demand
Like every premium panel system, Tilcor’s warranty coverage depends on installation to specification: substrate prep, fastening schedules, and flashing integration done as the manual requires and documented as built. Our crews run that standard on every install, and your registration ships with the compliance file that makes the warranty an asset instead of an argument.
Tilcor or DECRA
The honest answer is that both are excellent, and the choice usually lands on profile language and project pricing. DECRA brings the category originator’s pedigree; Tilcor brings global proving grounds and profiles, particularly its shake textures, that some architectures simply wear better. We install both within the stone coated steel program, so the comparison arrives side by side with pricing, profiles, and warranty terms on one page, plus the long math against conventional shingle for the full picture.
The path onto your roof
Inspection, samples, itemized quote, certified installation, registered warranty: the same documented sequence as everything we build, applied to a system engineered for exactly the weather this region throws. For owners who want the hail conversation over permanently, Tilcor is a conversation worth an hour, and the inspection that starts it costs nothing.
Sound, weight, and the questions buyers ask
Rain noise, the perennial metal question, is answered by the construction itself: stone granule surfaces and standard decking assemblies dampen sound to conventional roofing levels, and Tilcor’s coating engineering was built with acoustics in mind. Weight runs a tenth of genuine tile, so structural reinforcement rarely enters the conversation, and the interlock system that earns the wind rating also makes individual panel replacement straightforward on the rare day one is needed. Practical answers, all of them field-proven rather than promised.
The thirty year math
Tilcor buys the same inversion as the rest of its category: one premium install against multiple shingle cycles, insurance discounts running annually, and storm seasons that stop generating invoices. For owners planning decades in the hail belt, the per-year cost of a Tilcor roof routinely beats the budget material it was compared against on day one, and our estimates print that column so the decision reads in numbers instead of adjectives.
Seeing Tilcor before you buy it
Profile decisions deserve real light: samples staged on your roofline, recent installs available as drive-by addresses, and the drone gallery showing finished fields across the region. Tilcor photographs well, but it convinces in person, and the consultation that puts it in your hands costs nothing but the hour it earns, and most owners leave it already knowing which profile their house wants.
From there the quote takes days, the install takes about a week, and the roof takes care of the next several decades.
Talk to the crew that does the work
Ask for the free inspection and you get three things back: a condition report with photographs, an itemized scope if work is warranted, and a clear no if it is not. Nothing has to be decided while somebody is standing in your driveway.
Tell us what is going on and a certified crew will take it from there. Prefer to talk it through? Call (830) 330-1123.