Memphis Premium Roofing provides professional roofing services in Gilt Edge, TN — Tipton County, population 476. From roof replacement and roof leak repair to insurance claim help, our insured team serves Gilt Edge homes and businesses.
Gilt Edge property owners near the State Route 59 and State Route 178 junction in Gilt Edge, Giltedge Road west of Munford count on Memphis Premium Roofing for roofing contractor in Gilt Edge. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Memphis to every job in Gilt Edge, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (833) 549-4981 for a free roofing estimate in Gilt Edge, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Roofing in Gilt Edge, TN
Gilt Edge has the second oldest housing in this service area and almost no new building at all. Only eight and a half percent of its 188 housing units date from 2000 onward, less new building than any other town on this list, while sixty-five percent predate 1980.
The median year built is 1973 with a five-year margin. In practice that means a town of roofs replaced once or twice over plank or early panel decking, where the interesting question is always what is underneath the shingle rather than what is on top of it. Nineteen percent of the stock went up in the 1950s alone.
Fifteen percent of the housing is manufactured. We do not quote a manufactured roof and a stick-framed roof off the same measurement, and the written scope says which one we are looking at before it says a price. Sixty-nine percent of occupied homes here are owner-occupied, so that conversation is usually with the person who lives there.
The town publishes no code. The state university's municipal code library records that a public code listing is not available for Gilt Edge, so there is no adopted edition to read. The state's jurisdictions table classifies the town as exempt, meaning locally enforced, and names Joe McDonald at 731-609-5063 as the inspector for Tipton County.
That combination is common in small Tipton County towns and it is worth understanding rather than glossing over. Exempt does not mean exempt from rules. It means the state permit program does not run here and a local arrangement does, so the phone call about your re-roof is a local call and not a state one.
The storm record is short and one entry is large. On 29 April 2005 a 2.75-inch hailstone fell 1.1 miles from the town center with eighty-five hundred dollars of damage logged. It is the only stone above an inch ever recorded here, and the same size as the record stone at Brighton, twelve miles south.
Wind has been the more regular visitor. On 14 July 2015 straight-line winds knocked down several trees in Gilt Edge, and on 27 May 2017 poles came down along Double Bridges Road near Munford, a mile and a third from the town center. No tornado has been filed within three miles in thirty years.
Getting a free estimate in Gilt Edge
Call (833) 549-4981 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Gilt Edge, 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.
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Roofing work we do in Gilt Edge, TN
Memphis Premium Roofing covers the same range of work in Gilt Edge that we do in Memphis — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Wind Damage Roofing — Here is a fact about Shelby County that almost nobody selling roofs in Memphis will mention. When the city and county adopted the existing building code, they specifically adopted its seismic retrofit appendix and specifically declined its wind retrofit appendix.
- Roof Inspections — Our inspection report carries three lines that most Memphis roof reports do not. Whether the chimney is anchored where it passes the roof.
- Asphalt Shingle Roofs — On most Memphis houses we recommend a laminated asphalt shingle, and one of the reasons is unglamorous. At roughly two pounds per square foot it is the lightest covering that will do the job, on framing that was designed around exactly that assumption.
- Metal Roofing — Somebody will eventually tell you that a standing seam roof is an earthquake upgrade because metal is light. It is not.
- Tile Roofing — We turn down more tile work in Memphis than we take, and the reason is arithmetic rather than taste. A stick-framed house here was designed around a two-pound covering.
- 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.
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About Gilt Edge, TN — and why local matters here
Gilt Edge sits in Tipton County with a population of roughly 476, close enough to Memphis that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include the State Route 59 and State Route 178 junction in Gilt Edge, Giltedge Road west of Munford.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Gilt Edge 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.
Popular services in Gilt Edge: Roof Replacement and Roof Leak Repair.
We also serve Somerville, TN and the Mid-South.