Roofing & Restoration in Memphis, TN

Local Memphis Roofing

Roofing in Memphis

Memphis is home base for LASIM Contractors. Our office is on Winbrook Drive in Whitehaven, a few minutes from the airport, and most of the city is within twenty-five minutes of it: Whitehaven and Parkway Village on the south side, Midtown and the Medical District, East Memphis and the Poplar corridor, Cordova and Hickory Hill to the east, Raleigh and Frayser to the north, and the older neighborhoods around Downtown and South Memphis. We know the housing stock in each of them, because we have been on the roofs.

That stock is mostly brick, and mostly older than people think. The ranches and split-levels in Whitehaven, East Memphis and Raleigh went up in the 1950s through the 1970s; the two-story colonials in Cordova and Hickory Hill mostly date from the 1980s and 1990s; Midtown's bungalows and foursquares are older still. Many of these homes are on their third or fourth roof, and a good number of them have a layer of history under the shingles: old flashing that was reused, decking that was patched rather than replaced, and ventilation that was never designed for a modern insulated attic. That history is what we find when we tear a Memphis roof off, and it is why our estimates price decking and framing repair up front.

The weather is the other constant. Memphis sits in the corridor where spring supercells produce large hail and straight-line wind, and the region's tornado history is well known. Summers bake asphalt shingle at 95 degrees for weeks, and a January ice storm every few years tests every gutter and valley in the city. A roof here works harder than almost anywhere in the country, and the storm season is why so much of our Memphis work is an insurance claim.

• Memphis-based, formerly Q3 Contractors: same owner, same crews, same phone number
• Insurance claims handled end to end, adjuster meeting included
• Free inspection with written findings, whether or not you hire us
• Roof and interior restoration from one crew, one point of contact
• Emergency tarping and storm response across Memphis

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What we see on Memphis roofs

The most common finding is a roof at the end of its life that has been repaired past the point of sense: three-tab shingle from the 1990s, granules in the gutters, tabs lifting on the south and west slopes, and a series of tar patches around the pipe boots and the chimney. These are replacements, and on a house with hail or wind damage from a recent storm, they are usually claims.

The second is storm damage on a roof that was otherwise sound: hail bruising that is invisible from the street, wind-lifted shingles on the windward slope, and a fallen limb from one of the city's big oaks. Memphis has an enormous urban tree canopy, and tree damage is a larger share of our emergency calls here than anywhere else in our footprint. Storm damage repair and emergency tarping are a big part of what we do in the city.

The third is the water damage that follows: stained and sagging ceilings, wet attic insulation, and the mold that grows in a Memphis attic that cannot breathe. We are set up to fix the roof and restore the interior under one claim, which matters more in a city where so many homes have a decade of deferred roof work behind them.