Memphis Premium Roofing provides professional roofing services in Burlison, TN — Tipton County, population 367. From residential roof installation and commercial roof installation to wind damage roofing, our insured team serves Burlison homes and businesses.
Burlison property owners near State Route 59 through Burlison, the Burlison Community Center count on Memphis Premium Roofing for roofing contractor in Burlison. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Memphis to every job in Burlison, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (833) 549-4981 for a free roofing estimate in Burlison, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Roofing in Burlison, TN
Burlison is the one town on this list with no residential building code at all. The state's jurisdictions table classifies it as OPT OUT, which in Tennessee means the locality has left the state residential building program and no state-administered residential code applies inside it.
Tipton County around it is classified exempt, that is, locally enforced. Those are two different regimes with a town line between them. A contractor who tells you the county inspector will be out to look at your Burlison re-roof is describing a jurisdiction that does not reach you, and you should ask him to name the office.
The state university's municipal code library carries no public code listing for Burlison either, so there is no adopted edition of the building code for us to work to. We work to the manufacturer's published fastening pattern instead, and we write it into the scope so that at least one standard exists on paper.
That cuts both ways and we will say the uncomfortable half out loud. Nobody is going to catch a bad Burlison roof except you. The dated photographs we hand over at the end, of the deck, the flashing and every wall junction before it was covered, are the only inspection record that is ever going to exist for this job.
The town is 184 housing units. Nearly half predate 1980, twelve percent were built in the 1960s, and the median year built comes back as 1981 with an eleven-year margin of error, so the honest description is early 1980s rather than a single year. Sixty-three percent heat with utility gas.
On 21 May 2013 straight-line winds tore off half of a barn roof and produced minor shingle damage to a couple of homes near Burlison. Ten days later, on 31 May 2013, two homes northwest of Covington took roof and structural damage with twenty-eight thousand dollars logged. No tornado has ever been filed within three miles of the town.
One record here is a warning about reading location labels. A hail report filed on 20 April 2003 under the name Burlison has coordinates placing it eighty-nine miles away, nowhere near Tipton County. The nearest severe hail that genuinely fell close by is the 2.75-inch stone of 29 April 2005, filed at Gilt Edge, under three miles off.
About Burlison, TN — and why local matters here
Burlison sits in Tipton County with a population of roughly 367, close enough to Memphis that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include State Route 59 through Burlison, the Burlison Community Center.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Burlison properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Tipton County, and a roofing contractor who works the area weekly already knows what fails locally and what holds up. That is the difference between a bid and an accurate bid.
Getting a free estimate in Burlison
Call (833) 549-4981 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Burlison, usually within a couple of days. You get a written, itemized free estimate with materials and scope spelled out — no verbal ballpark, no pressure, and no charge whether you hire us or not.
We also serve Gilt Edge, TN and the rest of the Mid-South. Everything starts at the Memphis Premium Roofing homepage.
Roofing work we do in Burlison, TN
Memphis Premium Roofing covers the same range of work in Burlison that we do in Memphis — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Flat & Low-Slope Roofing — On an older Memphis brick building the parapet is a bigger question than the membrane. It is unreinforced masonry standing free above the roof deck, and the existing building code this county adopted contains a table that says how tall it may stand that way.
- Hail Damage Roofing — The standard answer to hail is a Class 4 impact shingle. It is also a heavier shingle than the one it replaces, and on a Memphis house that is a trade-off worth saying out loud rather than burying in a product brochure.
- Insurance Claim Help — Most of what this site argues about, the chimney anchorage and the parapets and the deck-to-wall connections, is work insurance will not pay for. Tennessee's insurance department states plainly that traditional homeowners and business policies do not cover earthquake damage.
- Metal Roofing — Somebody will eventually tell you that a standing seam roof is an earthquake upgrade because metal is light. It is not.
- Roof Leak Repair — Most leaks we chase in Memphis end at masonry. A chimney, a parapet, a brick wall a roof dies into.
- Roof Skylight Installation — A skylight is a hole cut in a structural surface. On a low-slope Memphis building that surface is also the diaphragm that carries lateral load across the roof and into the walls.
See the full list of Memphis services, or call (833) 549-4981.
Popular services in Burlison: Residential Roof Installation and Commercial Roof Installation.
We also serve Gilt Edge, TN and the Mid-South.