Roofing
Residential Roofing in Flowood, MS
Residential Roofing for Flowood and Rankin County, with an owner on every job.
On the roof
Residential Roofing for Flowood Homes
Flowood built most of its housing in one long run. About 2,299 units, roughly 47 percent of everything in the city, went up between 1990 and 2009, and the median Flowood home was finished in 2001.
That cohort is now 16 to 35 years old, which is the window where an architectural shingle roof stops being somebody else problem. Whether yours has years left is a question we answer on the roof and in the attic, with photographs, not from the driveway.
We install Owens Corning, Tamko, Eagle and DECRA. Which one goes on depends on the deck, the pitch and the exposure, decided after the inspection rather than before it.
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.
A Newer City Still Has Old Roof Problems
Because so much of Flowood is newer than its neighbors, people assume the roofs are fine. The failures here are simply younger versions of the same failures: pipe boots cracking in the sun, valley and wall flashing opening up, ridge caps giving out, and decking quietly staying wet under all of it.
We tear off to the bare deck every time, which is how soft sheathing gets found instead of covered. Where the inspection found bad decking, it is priced in the quote. If there is more underneath than anyone could see, we stop and talk to you before spending your money.
Ventilation and the Mississippi Summer
An under-ventilated attic in this climate cooks the shingle from the back face, curls the edges and takes years off the roof, and it voids most manufacturer warranties while it does it.
So we measure intake and exhaust rather than eyeballing them. If the balance is wrong, correcting it sits in the quote where the inspection found it, because installing a new roof over a ventilation problem only resets the clock on the same failure.
Where the Water Goes After It Leaves the Roof
This matters more in Flowood than almost anywhere else we work. Roughly 47 percent of the city land area sits in the 1 percent annual chance floodplain, and the city takes it seriously enough to require lowest floors 18 inches above base flood elevation and to ask for the flood zone on a routine building permit.
A roof that sheds perfectly into a gutter that overflows against the foundation has solved half a problem. We look at gutter capacity, downspout runs and where the discharge actually lands, because on a Flowood lot that is the difference between a dry crawlspace and an annual conversation.
None of that is exotic work. It is just the part a roofer who lives two counties away tends not to think about.
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 Residential Roofing
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Common questions
How old is the typical Flowood roof?
The median Flowood home was built in 2001, and about 47 percent of the city housing went up between 1990 and 2009. That cohort is now well into replacement territory for an original architectural shingle roof.
My house is newer. Do I really need an inspection?
A newer roof fails in the same places an older one does, just sooner than owners expect: pipe boots, flashing, ridge. The inspection is free and you keep the photographs either way.
Do you handle gutters and drainage too?
Yes, and in Flowood it is part of the conversation rather than an add-on. Where roof water lands matters in a city with this much floodplain in it.
Do you replace bad decking?
When we find it, yes. It is priced in the quote where the inspection found it, and anything beyond that gets discussed with you before we spend your money.
Don't know where to start?
Call the office, or tell us about the job online and get one written quote.