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Somerville Seismic-Zone Roofing Services Insured

Memphis Premium Roofing provides professional roofing services in Somerville, TN — Fayette County, population 3,415. From roof replacement and roof leak repair to insurance claim help, 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 Coatings & SealingA coating is the lightest way to buy years on a low-slope roof. It is also the way that leaves everything underneath it unexamined.
  • Roof VentilationAttic ventilation has nothing to do with earthquakes. We say that plainly, because the rest of this site reasons about anchorage and load, and stretching a good frame across a page it does not cover is how roofing companies talk themselves into nonsense.
  • SkylightsA 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.
  • Fascia & SoffitThe 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 FlashingIn Shelby County a masonry chimney is not only a flashing detail. It is a place the building code names as an anchorage point.
  • Commercial RoofingMemphis 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.

See the full list of Memphis services, or call (833) 549-4981.

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.

We also serve Oakland, TN and the rest of the Mid-South. Everything starts at the Memphis Premium Roofing homepage.

Popular services in Somerville: Roof Replacement and Roof Leak Repair.

We also serve Oakland, TN and the Mid-South.

Somerville Seismic-Zone Roofing Services: Common Questions

Are you licensed to work in Somerville, TN?

Yes. Licensed Tennessee contractor with the Board for Licensing Contractors. Note what that is and is not: Tennessee issues a contractor license with classifications rather than a roofing license, so there is no roofing classification to look for on the register.

What you can check is the license, the classification and the monetary limit - and whether the job is above the $25,000 line where a state license is required at all, General liability and workers' compensation carried on every job, and every job in Somerville is backed by a written workmanship warranty.

Where Somerville issues a permit for this work we pull it in our own name; not every jurisdiction we serve requires one, and we tell you which yours is.

Do you charge extra to come out to Somerville?

No. Somerville is inside our regular roofing service area, so the free estimate and the pricing are the same as they are in Memphis. Crews are in Fayette County most weeks already.

How soon can you start a roofing job in Somerville?

We can usually walk a Somerville property within a couple of days and put the written free estimate in your hands the same week. Start dates depend on material lead times and, where Somerville requires a permit, on how long that review takes — we tell you both before you commit to anything.

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