Roofing
Roofing Company in Clinton, MS
Roofs for Clinton and Hinds County, with an owner running every job.
On the roof
Roofing Company Serving Clinton, MS
Clinton is a genuinely different job from the rest of this metro, for two reasons most contractors never mention. The building department is working from a code edition twelve years older than Jackson's, and the ground under most of the city is not what people assume it is.
Dickerson Contracting is licensed through the Mississippi State Board of Contractors, number 25203-MC, insured, BBB accredited and 5 star rated across more than 100 Google reviews. Jacob or Jordan runs every job with a superintendent on site, and the roof is built by one of the two crews we have trusted for over nine years.
Every job starts with an inspection on the roof and in the attic, photographs you keep whether you hire us or not, and one written price before anything comes off.
There is no sales team here. You talk to Jacob or Jordan directly, and a superintendent runs every job.
Credentials
Licensed through the Mississippi State Board of Contractors, license 25203-MC. BBB accredited with an A+ rating since 2018. Home Builders Association and Rankin County Chamber members.
In the field
Clinton Is Twelve Years Behind Its Neighbors, and That Cuts Both Ways
Clinton enforces the 2006 family of international codes and the 2005 National Electrical Code. Jackson, across the city line, is on the 2018 codes and the 2017 electrical code. Two building departments, one boundary between them, twelve years apart.
On roofing, the older code is the stricter one. The 2006 residential code bars installing a new covering without tearing off the old one under four conditions, where the 2018 code kept only three. The two the newer code dropped are wood shake, and asphalt shingles on a building in an area of moderate or severe hail exposure.
That second one has no equivalent in the modern code at all, and it is worth knowing before a contractor offers to lay new shingles over your old ones. We do not know Clinton's classification on the hail exposure map that rule points to, and we are not going to guess at it on a website. What we do is confirm the requirement with Community Development at 961 US-80 for your address, and tear off to the bare deck regardless, because that is the only way to find bad decking instead of burying it.
No, Clinton Does Not Require Brick
This one comes up on nearly every Clinton quote, so it is worth settling. Clinton's zoning ordinance runs to 260 pages and contains no requirement that a house be brick, or colonial, or any other style. The word brick appears in it only in specifications for parking surfaces, commercial dumpster enclosures and a commercial screening fence.
Architectural control does exist here, but it does not reach ordinary residential zoning. What that means in practice is that your roof material choice in most of Clinton is yours, and anybody telling you the city will reject a color or a profile should be asked to point at the section.
The Olde Towne district is the real exception and it deserves a straight answer rather than a confident one. The zoning ordinance requires a Certificate of Appropriateness for a defined list of actions there, and that definition includes repair of a building. A separate chapter of the city code is understood to exempt ordinary maintenance at the Director's discretion. Those two readings do not agree, so on an Olde Towne address we ring the city and get it in writing before ordering material rather than telling you what we think the answer is.
What the Storm Record Actually Says About Clinton Roofs
The National Weather Service has named Clinton roofs repeatedly. In January 1999, golf ball size hail damaged several house roofs and, in a separate report the same day, blew the roof off a commercial building. In March 2005 a hail swath from Edwards through Bolton to Clinton caused minor damage to many roofs. In April 2008, winds reaching 100 miles an hour off West Northside Drive brought minor roof damage across the area.
On 18 March 2013 the largest hailstone in the entire Hinds County record fell in Clinton, at four and a quarter inches, around ten to four in the afternoon. A separate report from the same system recorded substantial roof damage from the hail.
It carries on. A garage roof collapsed on Church Street in April 2019. A November 2020 tornado touched down at Clinton Boulevard near West Hillsdale Drive and stripped roofing tin along its path. The February 2021 ice storm, a quarter to four tenths of an inch of accumulation, collapsed the roof of a gas station in Clinton. In May 2021 a wind event running from Clinton to Jackson blew shingles off homes.
Across the county, Hinds has logged 65 wind reports at 69 miles an hour or higher and 113 hail reports at an inch or larger since 1996. Those are county figures covering Jackson and several other towns, so read them as the weather pattern rather than your street.
Storm Damage and Insurance Claims
Plenty of Clinton re-roofs start with weather rather than a plan. We photograph the damage, meet your adjuster on the roof, and handle the supplement if the carrier scope comes up short. On a covered claim, you pay your deductible. That is it.
Read how we handle storm damage and insurance claims, or request a free inspection.
On the job
Tear-Off to Finished Roof
Three frames from Dickerson jobs, in the order the work happens. Every photograph on this page is theirs, shot on site by the crew.
Photographs from Dickerson Contracting jobs.
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Roofing Services in Clinton
Residential Roofing in Clinton, Commercial Roofing in Clinton, Roof Repair in Clinton, Metal Roofing in Clinton. Not sure which one fits? Request a free quote and we will tell you after the inspection, not before it.
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Common questions
Does Clinton require brick or a colonial style?
No. Nothing in the 260-page zoning ordinance requires brick or any architectural style on a house in ordinary residential zoning. The assumption is widespread and it is wrong.
Can you roof over my existing shingles in Clinton?
The 2006 code Clinton enforces is stricter than the current one on this point, barring re-cover over wood shake and barring asphalt re-cover entirely in areas of moderate or severe hail exposure. We confirm the requirement with the city for your address, and we tear off to the deck regardless.
My house is in Olde Towne. Do I need a Certificate of Appropriateness?
We get that in writing from the city rather than guessing. The zoning ordinance includes repair in the list of actions needing a certificate, while a separate chapter is understood to exempt ordinary maintenance. Those readings conflict, so we ask before ordering material.
Will insurance cover a storm-damaged roof?
On a covered claim, you pay your deductible. That is it. We document the damage, meet your adjuster on site and handle the claim paperwork alongside the work.
Don't know where to start?
Call the office, or tell us about the job online and get one written quote.