Roofing
Commercial Roofing in Ridgeland, MS
Commercial Roofing for Ridgeland and Madison County, with an owner on every job.
On the roof
Commercial Roofing in Ridgeland, MS
Ridgeland carries more commercial roof than a city its size normally would. Northpark Mall opened on East County Line Road in 1984 at nearly a million square feet, Renaissance at Colony Park opened in 2008, and the Highland Colony corridor has been filling in ever since.
We install and repair EPDM, TPO and PVC on offices, retail, churches and multi-family buildings here. Jacob or Jordan runs the job with a superintendent on site, which is the part a property manager or a board actually cares about.
Most of our work still comes from word of mouth. We set expectations up front, we do not over-promise, and nothing reaches your bill that you did not approve first.
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.
The $10,000 Line, and What Triggers Review
Commercial work in Ridgeland does not get the residential permit exemption. The city amended the building code so that any work costing $10,000 or more, or making a significant change to the exterior, requires a building permit.
Larger projects can also land in front of the Architectural Review Board: the city fee schedule treats renovations over $10,000 as a major site plan or ARB submittal. Permit fees themselves run $3.50 per $1,000 of construction cost, with inspections at $30 and re-inspections at $50.
We would rather price that properly at the start than discover the review halfway through your schedule.
A City Where Half the Housing Is Rented
Ridgeland is close to evenly split between owners and renters, with roughly 5,100 owner-occupied homes against 5,700 rented, and more than 2,200 units sitting in five to nine unit buildings.
That means a large share of the roofs here belong to somebody who does not live under them. Multi-family and rental property work is its own discipline: tenants stay in place, access is negotiated rather than assumed, and the documentation trail matters because the person approving the spend has not been on the roof.
You get photographs of the existing condition, the work in progress and the finished assembly, and one quote with a schedule attached rather than a time and materials meter.
Drainage, Ponding and the Rain That Arrives All at Once
Central Mississippi delivers rain in volume rather than drizzle. A low-slope roof that drains slowly holds standing water after every one of those storms, and standing water finds every weak seam while adding real structural load.
The field membrane is rarely the failure point anyway. These roofs fail at penetrations, curbs, terminations and drains, which is where our inspection starts and where the itemized quote spends most of its lines. Sometimes the correct answer is tapered insulation rather than another membrane over a drainage problem nobody solved.
Local weather makes the point. In June 2023 a downburst estimated at 75 miles an hour crossed the south of the city, and the Weather Service logged trees down in the Renaissance at Colony Park parking lot along with damage to awnings and gutters at a church on Ridgecrest Drive. Edge metal, gutters and terminations are where a commercial roof meets weather first, and they are exactly the lines a cheap quote leaves vague.
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 Ridgeland Commercial Roofing
Free inspection, and photographs you keep whether you hire us or not. Get Your Written Price Call 601-724-4282
Commercial Roofing Nearby
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Common questions
Does my Ridgeland commercial roof need a permit?
If the work costs $10,000 or more, or significantly changes the exterior, yes. The residential roof exemption does not apply to commercial buildings.
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.
Can you work without closing the building?
Yes. Tear-off and dry-in are sequenced so no section is left open overnight, and staging is planned around your access points rather than our convenience.
Do you handle rental and multi-family property?
Yes, and Ridgeland has a lot of it. You get condition photographs, progress photographs and a finished-assembly record, which is what a board or an owner needs when they are approving work they have not personally inspected.
Don't know where to start?
Call the office, or tell us about the job online and get one written quote.