Memphis Premium Roofing provides professional roofing services in Somerville, TN — Fayette County, population 3,415. From residential roof installation and commercial roof installation to wind damage roofing, our insured team serves Somerville homes and businesses.
Somerville property owners near the Somerville Historic District, U.S. 64 through Somerville count on Memphis Premium Roofing for roofing contractor in Somerville. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Memphis to every job in Somerville, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (833) 549-4981 for a free roofing estimate in Somerville, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Roofing in Somerville, TN
Somerville amended its building code on 9 February 2026, which makes it the most recently updated code of the twenty-five towns we work in. Ordinance 2026-002 carried Section 12-201 forward on the 2021 International Building Code, the same edition Shelby County enforces and a full fifteen years ahead of the 2006 code still in force in Covington.
The fee table is published rather than set by resolution somewhere out of sight. A residential building permit is sixty dollars per inspection, a reinspection is another sixty, a certificate of occupancy is sixty, and demolition is sixty with a state permit also required. Fail to apply before construction starts and the fees are doubled.
Somerville also writes its own roof framing rule. Members go no more than sixteen inches on center; rafters may go to twenty-four inches only if the roof sheathing is at least five-eighths-inch plywood with approved clips or three-quarter-inch nominal boards. Three-eighths-inch roof decking is not allowed at all, and twenty-four-inch rafters require three-quarter-inch decking.
That is a real constraint on a re-deck and it is one we check before quoting rather than after the roof is open. If your Somerville deck is three-eighths of an inch, replacing it like for like is not an option the ordinance leaves open, and that changes the number on the proposal rather than the schedule.
The housing is older than the Fayette County average and split between eras. Forty-six percent of the 1,395 units predate 1980, sixteen percent went up in the 1960s alone, and the median year built is 1983 with a nine-year margin. Fifty-seven percent heat with electricity and only fifty-six percent of occupied homes are owner-occupied.
Wind is the local hazard and it arrives out of season. On New Year's Day 2022 straight-line winds damaged an outbuilding roof and several grain bins. On 25 June 2023 a large tree came down in downtown Somerville, and on 5 August 2023 utility poles snapped along Highway 76 just north of town.
Hail has been moderate here by west Tennessee standards. Golf ball sized stones fell on 8 April 2024 and ping-pong sized stones on 2 April 2025, both within two miles of the town center, and back on 2 April 2006 the wind line that destroyed homes in Braden ripped shingles off roofs in Somerville as it passed.
Roofing work we do in Somerville, TN
Memphis Premium Roofing covers the same range of work in Somerville that we do in Memphis — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Roof Repair — Most Memphis repair calls get quoted on the covering and decided by the board underneath it. A nail holds only if the wood it enters holds, and in this climate the wood is the part that quietly stops holding.
- 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.
- Cool Roof Installation — Memphis has a long cooling season and a real winter, which makes this the most interesting version of the question. The answer here is a qualified yes, and the qualification is worth more than the yes.
- 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.
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About Somerville, TN — and why local matters here
Somerville sits in Fayette County with a population of roughly 3,415, close enough to Memphis that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include the Somerville Historic District, U.S. 64 through Somerville.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Somerville properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Fayette 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 Somerville
Call (833) 549-4981 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Somerville, 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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Popular services in Somerville: Residential Roof Installation and Commercial Roof Installation.
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