Memphis Premium Roofing provides professional roofing services in Lakeland, TN — Shelby County, population 13,904. From roof replacement and roof leak repair to insurance claim help, our insured team serves Lakeland homes and businesses.
Lakeland property owners near Interstate 40 at the Canada Road interchange, Garner Lake in Lakeland count on Memphis Premium Roofing for roofing contractor in Lakeland. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Memphis to every job in Lakeland, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (833) 549-4981 for a free roofing estimate in Lakeland, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Roofing in Lakeland, TN
Of every city we work in, Lakeland leans hardest on somebody else to inspect its buildings. Section 12-101 of the city code provides that the building, plumbing, electrical, mechanical, gas and housing codes in effect in Shelby County are effective inside the corporate limits and are enforced by Shelby County personnel. City staff are not named in it.
The city's own permits page agrees. It states that for swimming pools, detached garages, additions and similar work a Shelby County permit is required in addition to Lakeland's own requirements. The permits Lakeland issues itself are accessory structure, fence, sign, tree removal, pool, demolition, land disturbance and retaining wall, and roofing appears on neither list.
That is not the same as roofing being unregulated. We ask the county before a Lakeland tear-off, because the county is the office the city's own ordinance points to, and because Shelby County has been enforcing the 2021 international codes since the start of 2022.
Half of Lakeland's 5,519 housing units date from 2000 onward and the median build year lands on 2000 exactly, but a stubborn twelve percent went up during the 1970s. Those two populations need different scopes, and the older ones are where we find deck problems that an overlay would have hidden for another decade. Seventy-nine percent are owner-occupied.
The tornado in the file here is not a small one. On 5 February 2008 an EF2 touched down a quarter mile east of the Brunswick Road interchange along Highway 385 in the Salem Estates subdivision and tracked northeast toward the Tipton County line. That single event carries a million dollars of property damage.
The 25 June 2023 wind event tore part of the roof off a gas station and a dental building near exit 20 on Interstate 40 and uprooted trees across the city, another million-dollar record. On 20 August 2011 five power poles and a couple of trees came down near Lakeland City Hall.
Hail is lighter here than in Arlington but it is not absent. Ping-pong sized stones fell along Highway 70 near City Hall on 8 July 2024, three-tenths of a mile from the city centroid, and golf ball hail reached the western edge of town repeatedly between 2009 and 2011. If a bidder says a hail claim is waiting, ask which dated report they are reading.
Getting a free estimate in Lakeland
Call (833) 549-4981 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Lakeland, 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 Covington, TN and the rest of the Mid-South. Everything starts at the Memphis Premium Roofing homepage.
Roofing work we do in Lakeland, TN
Memphis Premium Roofing covers the same range of work in Lakeland that we do in Memphis — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Fascia & Soffit — The fascia and soffit on a brick house are the joint where two materials that move at different rates must stay together. That joint is where rot starts here, and it is the one place a roofer can see whether the wall plate is still fastened.
- Chimney Flashing — In Shelby County a masonry chimney is not only a flashing detail. It is a place the building code names as an anchorage point.
- Commercial Roofing — Memphis is a distribution city and its big buildings show it. Concrete tilt-up walls, steel joists, a steel deck roof, and a lot of square footage.
- 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.
- Roof Replacement — A replacement is the only moment you get to change what your roof weighs. In a county the building code treats as Seismic Design Category D, that number belongs on the proposal.
- Roof Leak Repair — Most leaks we chase in Memphis end at masonry. A chimney, a parapet, a brick wall a roof dies into.
See the full list of Memphis services, or call (833) 549-4981.
About Lakeland, TN — and why local matters here
Lakeland sits in Shelby County with a population of roughly 13,904, close enough to Memphis that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include Interstate 40 at the Canada Road interchange, Garner Lake in Lakeland.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Lakeland properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Shelby 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 Lakeland: Roof Replacement and Roof Leak Repair.
We also serve Covington, TN and the Mid-South.