Roofing
Metal Roofing in Flowood, MS
Metal Roofing for Flowood and Rankin County, with an owner on every job.
On the roof
Metal Roofing in Flowood, MS
Metal earns its price on service life and storm performance, and it punishes sloppy detailing in a way shingle does not. Jacob or Jordan runs the job with a superintendent on site, which is why the detailing holds up.
Standing seam keeps its fasteners hidden under the seam rather than leaving a rubber washer out in the sun. Exposed fastener panels cost less and belong on shops and outbuildings, but every screw is a hole through the surface you want watertight. Our statewide metal roofing page covers the comparison in more depth.
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.
What the Rankin County Wind Record Shows
Rankin County storm records from 1996 through 2026 hold 548 thunderstorm wind reports, and 77 of those measured 69 miles an hour or higher. The strongest gust on record reached 100 miles an hour in February 2008. The county carries 78 tornadoes across the same window.
Flowood has taken its share. The December 2024 EF1 crossed the city at around 110 miles an hour, and the April 2008 event ran 80 to 100 through the Dogwood Festival and Old Fannin corridor.
Metal handles that kind of weather better than an aging shingle roof, and it sheds heat rather than absorbing it, which shows up on a Mississippi power bill. The noise question arrives with every quote, and the answer is that deck, underlayment and attic insulation sit between you and the panel.
There is a small irony in quoting metal here. The National Weather Service office that issues the severe thunderstorm and tornado warnings for this metro is itself in Flowood, so the warnings your phone lights up with during a spring evening are written a few minutes from your roof.
Panel, Gauge and Fastener Pattern
Once you have chosen metal there are still three decisions that decide how the roof performs, and none of them show up in a headline price. Panel gauge sets how the roof takes a hail strike and how much oil canning you see across a long run. The clip and fastener pattern sets what the assembly does in the kind of gust Rankin County has logged 77 times since 1996.
Then there is the finish. A painted coating carries its own warranty separate from the panel, and the difference between finishes shows up as fade and chalking a decade out rather than on installation day.
We specify all three in the written quote rather than leaving them to the order desk, because a cheap quote for a metal roof usually means a thinner panel, a wider fastener spacing, or a finish that will look tired long before the steel does.
Hail Is the Other Half of the Argument
Rankin County has logged 231 hail reports since 1996, with 123 at an inch or larger and 35 at golf ball size or bigger. The largest on record measured four and a half inches at Fannin in April 1996.
A steel panel dents where an aging shingle bruises and sheds granules, and a dent does not let water through. That makes for a different conversation with an insurer than a shingle claim does, and it is a fair thing to weigh before you choose rather than after the next storm.
Cost, Lifespan and When We Talk You Out of It
Metal asks for more money now and returns a much longer service life, so the arithmetic only works if you plan to stay in the house or hold the building. Over a short horizon a quality shingle roof is usually the better buy, and we will tell you that rather than sell up.
Complicated roof geometry can drive metal detailing costs up without improving the result, and that belongs in the conversation before you choose a system. We price both paths so the decision rests on value rather than pressure.
On the job
Tear-Off to Finished Roof
Three frames from Dickerson jobs of this kind, in the order the work happens.
Photographs from Dickerson Contracting jobs. Project locations are not published, so no frame is presented as a particular street or city.
Get a Written Price on Your Flowood Metal Roofing
Free inspection, and photographs you keep whether you hire us or not. Get Your Written Price Call 601-724-4282
Metal Roofing Nearby
Also see Flowood roofing or statewide metal roofing. For a number, request a free quote or call 601-724-4282.
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Common questions
Is a metal roof loud in the rain?
No. Decking, underlayment and attic insulation sit between you and the panel. The reputation comes from bare metal over open framing on barns and sheds.
Does metal really do better in a storm?
In wind and hail it generally does. Rankin County has logged 77 wind reports at 69 miles an hour or higher since 1996 and 35 hail reports at golf ball size or larger. Metal dents where shingle bruises and loses granules.
How long does a metal roof last?
Substantially longer than shingle, which is where it earns its cost. That only pencils out if you plan to stay in the house or hold the building.
Standing seam or exposed fastener?
Standing seam on houses almost every time, because the fasteners sit under the seam rather than out in the weather. Exposed fastener has its place on outbuildings and agricultural structures.
Don't know where to start?
Call the office, or tell us about the job online and get one written quote.