Roofing
Commercial Roofing in Jackson, MS
Commercial Roofing for Jackson and Hinds County, with an owner on every job.
On the roof
Commercial Roofing in Jackson, MS
Jackson carries the state's institutional building stock. The Capitol at 400 High Street, the Old Capitol Museum, the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson State University on Lynch Street and Belhaven University on Peachtree Street all sit inside the city, alongside the offices, churches, clinics and multi-family buildings that surround them.
We install and repair EPDM, TPO and PVC on low-slope commercial roofs here. Jacob or Jordan runs the job with a superintendent on site, which is the part an owner or a board actually cares about.
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.
Detailing Is Where Low-Slope Roofs Fail
The field membrane is rarely the problem. Low-slope assemblies fail at the transitions: penetrations, curbs, terminations, drains, and anywhere a previous contractor reached for sealant instead of a proper detail.
That is where our inspection starts and where the itemized quote spends most of its lines. A quote that prices the field cheaply and stays vague about the detailing is telling you where the corners will be cut.
On a building with decades of roofing history, which describes most of commercial Jackson, the other question is what is under the membrane. Wet insulation does not dry out on its own, and a coating applied over it seals the problem in rather than solving it.
Commercial Buildings in the Historic Districts
Jackson's five local historic districts include commercial and institutional buildings, not just houses, and the review rules apply the same way. A like-for-like roof replacement is treated as routine maintenance through a $15 Compliance Agreement. A change of material or profile becomes a Certificate of Appropriateness at $40, plus $40 per additional 5,000 square feet, which on a commercial footprint is a real line item to plan for.
The Commission meets on the second Wednesday of the month at noon. On a building you need watertight before a season changes, a missed meeting is a four-week delay, so the pre-application conversation happens early rather than after the quote is signed.
Drainage, Ponding and the Clay Below
A low-slope roof that ponds after every storm is carrying weight it was not designed to carry and holding water against details that were never meant to sit submerged. On an older building with a history of structural movement, ponding also tends to get worse over time rather than better.
Jackson sits in the Yazoo clay belt, where the state geological survey documents differential foundation movement measured across whole structures. A building that has moved will have low spots on the roof that were not there when it was built, and no amount of membrane fixes a slope problem. Tapered insulation, relocated drains or additional drainage belong in that conversation honestly, not as an upsell after the fact.
Working Around a Building That Stays Open
Your tenants, patients, students or congregation still need the building. Tear-off and dry-in get sequenced so no section is left open overnight, and staging is planned around your access points rather than our convenience.
You get one quote with a schedule attached rather than a time and materials meter, plus photographs of the existing condition, the work in progress and the finished assembly. That trail is what a board or an owner needs when approving spend they have not personally climbed up to inspect.
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.
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Common questions
Which membrane do you recommend?
It depends on the deck, the existing assembly, roof traffic and budget. We install EPDM, TPO and PVC and explain the tradeoffs for your building rather than defaulting to one product for everything.
My commercial building is in a historic district. Does that affect the roof?
Yes. Like-for-like replacement is routine maintenance through a $15 Compliance Agreement. Changing material or profile means a Certificate of Appropriateness at $40 plus $40 per additional 5,000 square feet, and the Commission meets only once a month.
Can a low-slope roof be restored instead of replaced?
Sometimes. If the substrate is sound, a coating or restoration can buy real years. If the insulation is wet, restoration just seals the problem in. The inspection decides that, not the budget.
The roof ponds after every rain. Is that fixable?
Usually, but not with membrane alone. Ponding is a slope problem, and on an older Jackson building it often follows structural movement. Tapered insulation, relocated drains or added drainage are the honest answers.
Don't know where to start?
Call the office, or tell us about the job online and get one written quote.