We are based in Hernando, Mississippi, about 25 miles south on I-55, and we cross the state line to repair, replace and inspect roofs on Memphis homes.
If you are looking for a roofing contractor in Memphis, TN, start with where we are. Advance Roofing & Restoration is a Mississippi company, owned by Greg Stephens and based in Hernando, the DeSoto County seat. Memphis is about 25 miles north of us by I-55 or US 51, and Memphis jobs are run from Hernando, since there is no Tennessee office. We cover Memphis homes for roof repair, a replacement, an inspection or a tarp in the middle of the night.
The first part of the city you reach coming up from Hernando is Whitehaven, the South Memphis community whose southern edge is the Mississippi state line. It was farmland until it filled in as a residential suburb in the 1950s and early 1960s, and Memphis annexed it in 1970. A house built in that run has framing and roof decking well past sixty years old, no matter how recently the shingles on top were changed.
Farther in, the housing gets older still. Midtown holds historic districts such as Central Gardens and Cooper-Young, along corridors that took shape before World War II. A Memphis roof in that part of town can mean chimneys, dormers, a porch roof tied into the main one and more valleys than a ranch house has, and every one of those joints is a place for water to find a way in.
Beyond the city, we also work in the Shelby County suburbs of Germantown, Collierville and Millington.
Most leaks on a Memphis house start somewhere other than where the stain shows up inside. We trace the water back to the source, whether that is a cracked pipe boot, a lifted shingle or flashing pulling away from brick, and fix that spot. If a repair is all the roof needs, a repair is all we quote.
When wind tears a section of shingles off or a branch opens the roof, the house needs to be dried in before anything else happens. We are open 24 hours, so call any time, day or night, about getting temporary protection on. The permanent repair gets planned after the weather settles.
Hail bruises and creased shingles are hard to see from a Memphis driveway. A free inspection puts someone on the roof to go over shingles, vents, ridge caps and flashing, and you get a straight account of the condition before any price comes up.
On a house that is decades old, a new roof is a chance to look at what is underneath. Once the old shingles come off we check the decking, swap out any soft sheets, and then lay the new shingle roof. The written quote comes before any of it starts.
Roof repair in Memphis usually starts with a leak that showed up after a storm or a stain that keeps growing. We come up I-55 for a free inspection, find where the water is getting in and fix that spot, whether it is a cracked pipe boot, a lifted shingle or flashing pulling away from brick. If a repair is all the roof needs, a repair is all we quote.
On the older houses in Whitehaven and Midtown, chimneys, dormers and porch roofs tied into the main roof give water more places to get in, so we look at every one of those joints. See our roof repair page for what a typical repair involves.
When a Memphis roof is worn out on every side, with brittle or curling shingles, granules in the gutters and leaks that keep moving, more patches only delay the bill. A roof replacement takes the old roof down to the decking, replaces any soft boards and puts a new shingle roof on from the underlayment up.
You get a written estimate before anything starts, including how bad decking will be handled, and the old shingles, nails and debris are cleaned up before the crew leaves.
From Hernando, I-55 runs north through DeSoto County and reaches the Tennessee line about 12 miles up the road. Past that point you are in Shelby County and inside Memphis city limits. That geography is the reason we include Memphis in our service area: the south side of the city is not much farther from our base than the north end of our own county.
When you call about a Memphis roof, you are calling a Mississippi company that comes to you. Greg Stephens owns it, and you can ask him anything you want to know about how the job will be run.
Memphis sits on the Chickasaw Bluffs above the Mississippi River, and the weather that crosses the river does not slow down for the city. Summer afternoons often build into thunderstorms, and the strongest cells of spring and summer can bring hail and straight-line gusts along with the downpour. Spring adds tornado watches to the season.
Wind damage tends to start at the edges of a roof: the ridge, the rakes along the gable ends and the first courses above the gutters. Hail is quieter. It knocks granules loose and leaves soft spots that age faster than the rest of the roof. If a storm has passed over your part of Memphis and something looks off, a free inspection is the easy way to find out. If the damage turns out to be storm related, we explain how the claim process works so you know what the next steps look like.
On a mid-century house in Whitehaven or a pre-war house in Midtown, the boards under the shingles may be the ones the house was built with. Some have been through two or three roofs already. Nails that no longer hold, rot along the eaves and sagging between rafters only show up once the shingles are off.
So on an older Memphis house, the written quote spells out how decking is handled. You will know what happens if bad wood turns up before the tear-off begins, not after. For a closer look at the full process, see our roof replacement page, or start with a roof inspection.
Yes. Advance Roofing & Restoration is based in Hernando, Mississippi, about 25 miles south of Memphis on I-55, and we take roof repair, replacement, inspection and emergency calls on homes across the state line in Memphis.
Memphis homes from Whitehaven at the state line up through Midtown and the rest of the city. Call with your address and we will set a time to look at the roof.
Nothing. Roof inspections and estimates are free. Someone gets on the roof, looks at the shingles, flashing, vents and decking where it can be seen, and tells you what the roof needs before any price is discussed.
Yes. Advance Roofing is open 24 hours a day, every day. Call (901) 350-5290 any time, tell us what is happening, and we will talk through getting a tarp or temporary cover on to keep the house dry until the permanent repair.
We can be on the roof the day the adjuster comes out. Whether to file is your call, and the claim runs between you and your insurer, not through us.
Mainly homes, and mostly asphalt shingle roofs, which is what most Memphis houses carry. That covers repairs, full replacements, inspections, maintenance and emergency tarping on residential roofs.
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we live in dickens place sub division in Southaven ms and had to replace the roof due to previous wind damage ,the employees of advance roofing fought hard and sent photos and videos of the damaged roof to my insurance company that didn't want to live up to their obligation ! after all the evidence was reviewed they had no other recourse but to pony up the dough for full replacement ! the roofing crew were great and replaced the roof and cleaned up every nail ,ever old shingle ! the roof looks great and will out last me ! ,I highly recommend greg and his company they are the best roofing company I have ever seen and I have been around building contractor for many years !
Advance Roofing and Restoration was great to work with. I experienced almost 2 Years of agony because my insurance company denied my claim. Greg sent one of his team members to repair the most damaged area of my roof and once everything was finally resolved , his team replaced my roof. They did an excellent job.