Roofing in North Mississippi

Local to North Mississippi, not just listed here.

North Mississippi has an unusual roofing problem: timing. DeSoto County built enormous numbers of homes through the late nineties and two-thousands, and those original builder-grade roofs are all reaching the end of their service life within a few years of each other. Add the hail and straight-line wind this end of the state gets every spring and it is a lot of roofs needing an honest opinion at once.

Builder-grade 3-tab on a 1998 subdivision home was never going to last as long as the sales brochure implied, and it is the roof most likely to be quietly failing right now. The tell is granule loss — check your downspout splash blocks. If they are gritty with what looks like coarse sand, your shingles are shedding their protective layer and the clock is running.