Jonesboro Premium Roofing: Roof Replacement, Repair and Storm Restoration
Expert residential and commercial roofing services. We inspect the ground under every downspout as well as the deck above it.
Registered residential roofer with the Arkansas Contractors Licensing Board·Free inspection covering every slope and every downspout outlet·Written scopes naming products, fasteners and discharge points·Serving Craighead, Greene, Poinsett, Mississippi, Jackson, Lawrence, Clay and Cross counties
Jonesboro Premium Roofing covers roof replacement and leak repair, hail and storm damage, asphalt shingle work, standing seam metal, low-slope membrane, attic ventilation, chimney flashing and seamless gutters right across Craighead County. Every quote names the shingle, the underlayment, the nail count and the flashing components, so our number can be set beside anybody else's and read line for line.
Jonesboro sits on Crowley's Ridge, a long erosional remnant capped with windblown silt that stands a couple of hundred feet above the Delta floor. That silt moves readily under concentrated water, and your roof is far and away the largest collector of concentrated water on the property. It is why our scopes name where each downspout ends and what it lands on, not only what goes on the deck.
We work the ridge towns and the flat country either side of them, from Brookland and Paragould down to Trumann, Harrisburg and Wynne, residential and commercial both. If a repair is the right call we will quote the repair rather than talk you upward. And if you do not need us at all, we will tell you that for free and put it in writing.
Our Roofing Services in Jonesboro, AR
Roof Replacement
A replacement here is two jobs on one invoice. The roof is one.
Roof Leak Repair
Before we go up on your roof we walk the outside of your house. That is not a gimmick.
Storm Damage Restoration
Northeast Arkansas storms are short and heavy rather than long and steady. NOAA Atlas 14 puts the fifteen-minute hundred-year rainfall at this location at about 1.71 inches.
Hail Damage Roofing
Hail sends two bills. The first one is obvious and it is the roof.
Wind Damage Roofing
Wind reaches Jonesboro across a hundred miles of very little. The Delta east of here is flat, open farm ground, and the ridge is the first thing standing in the way of it, so the crest streets take a harder hit than a flat map of the county would suggest.
Roof Inspections
Our inspection finishes on the ground, which is not how most of them work. We walk every discharge point, look at the soil directly below it, and photograph what we find there before we write a single word about your shingles.
Asphalt Shingle Roofs
For almost any house in Jonesboro, asphalt shingle is simply the correct roof, and we say so as people who also sell metal. It handles the heat, it takes hail better than tile does, and when it eventually fails it fails cheaply and locally.
Metal Roofing
We will put a metal roof on your house on one condition: it gets a full gutter system. No exceptions on a sloped ridge lot.
Tile Roofing
Consider this the page where we talk you out of a product on our own price list. If you live in Jonesboro and you are considering tile for a house that has never had it, our advice is don't.
Flat & Low-Slope Roofing
Low slope turns up here in two places: the porch or rear addition on an older ridge house, and the back half of most downtown buildings. In both cases the failure is at the edge or the outlet, not out in the field where people look first.
Roof Coatings & Sealing
Let's get the honest part out of the way first. If a salesman offers to coat your asphalt shingle roof, say no.
Roof Ventilation
The ventilation problem in Jonesboro is intake, not exhaust. Nearly every attic we open has plenty of hole at the ridge and almost nothing working down at the eave, and adding more exhaust on top of that makes the situation worse rather than better.
Skylights
Most leaking skylights are not leaking. They are condensing.
Gutters & Downspouts
Of every page here, this is the one that matters most. Odd thing to say about gutters, we know.
Fascia & Soffit
Rotted fascia is very rarely a fascia fault at all. It is an overflowing gutter, or a drip edge nobody ever fitted, quietly letting water run in behind the trough and down the face of the board for years before anyone notices.
Chimney Flashing
Chimneys leak because of how the flashing was built, not because of anything wrong with the brick. The correct assembly is two separate pieces of metal doing two different jobs, and almost every problem chimney we open up in this town has only one of them.
Emergency Tarping
A tarp does two things. It stops water coming into the house, and it takes every gallon that used to spread across a whole roof plane and pours it out of one corner instead.
Commercial Roofing
Commercial work in this market comes down to three buildings. The metal building out on the edge of town, the older downtown block with a low-slope deck behind the parapet, and the rental and student housing stock that a university town like this one carries a great deal of.
Insurance Claim Help
Start with the sentence that saves people the most money and the most disappointment: the eroded gully at your downspout is not a claim. Standard homeowners forms exclude earth movement and surface water, and no quantity of storm photographs is going to change that.
Why Jonesboro Chooses Jonesboro Premium Roofing
- ✓Every proposal states where each downspout ends and what it lands on, because Jonesboro sits on a loess ridge and the soil at that point is the part of the system most likely to fail first.
- ✓We refuse to put drywells, pop-up emitters or buried infiltration on ridge lots. Loess sits over a fragipan around two feet down, so water put into the ground near the house cannot descend and travels sideways at footing depth instead.
- ✓Roof inspections here end at grade. We photograph headcuts, undermined splash blocks and exposed footings, and we tell you when a reported roof leak is actually ground water rather than selling you a roof.
- ✓Metal roofs only leave here with a full gutter package on a sloped lot, because a smooth panel delivers the same rainfall in a shorter, harder pulse and an unguttered drip line cuts a trench in erodible silt.
- ✓We will not put tile on a Craighead County house that does not already have it, and this site says so on its own tile page, because the framing was sized for shingle and the covering is not what damages houses here.
- ✓Storm reports separate roof damage from soil loss at the inspection, since standard homeowners forms exclude earth movement and finding that out at the adjuster meeting costs people real money.
About Jonesboro Premium Roofing in Jonesboro, AR
Jonesboro Premium Roofing works the ridge and the flat country around it, and the difference between those two grounds runs through everything we do. Shingle roofs get replaced and repaired, standing seam metal goes on, low-slope membrane gets handled on commercial buildings, and seamless gutters are sized for the water a roof here really makes.
The habit we care about most is writing things down. Every proposal names products, fasteners, flashing components and the discharge point of every downspout. Every inspection leaves with dated photographs organized by slope. If we recommend against something you asked for, the reason goes in the file next to it, because an opinion you cannot check is only an opinion.
Now the part about not hiring us. Where a roof is under twelve years old and a storm lifted a few tabs, what you want is a repair, not the replacement somebody else quoted. If your ceiling stain is ground water rather than the roof, a new roof will not touch it. And if you have been paid on a claim and want the cheapest crew who will cash it, we are not that company.
Service Areas
Jonesboro Premium Roofing serves Jonesboro, AR and surrounding communities including:
How It Works
Inspection on roof and ground
We photograph every slope and then walk every downspout outlet, because on the ridge a good share of reported roof leaks start at the soil. You get a dated report with the slope named on each image, whether or not you hire us.
A written scope, not a price
The proposal names the covering, underlayment, valley detail, fastening pattern, flashing components and the length and outlet of every downspout run. Anything we recommend against is written down too, with the reason next to it.
Scheduled around the weather
We book tear-offs into clear windows rather than squeezing them ahead of a front, and we stage large roofs plane by plane so no more of the deck is open than has to be. Gutters go back on the same day they come off.
Closeout you can keep
Deck photographs before cover, fastener photographs before the next course, a copy of the material warranty registration, and the workmanship warranty as its own signed document. Site cleanup includes a magnet pass over the drive and the beds.
Recent Projects Across northeast Arkansas
What Jonesboro Customers Say
They found the stain in my hall ceiling was coming up the block wall from a washed-out spot at the corner of the house, not through the roof. Charged me for the visit and nothing else. I had two bids for a full replacement sitting on the table.
The proposal listed the length of every downspout run and what it discharged onto. Nobody else even mentioned the ground. Two winters on and the trench that used to open at the back corner has stayed closed.
Talked me out of the impact shingles on a roof that has been hit once since we built. Talked me into fixing the soffit intake instead, which cost a fraction of it. The upstairs is genuinely cooler now.
We are on the ridge side of town and my sister is on the flat side, and they specified the two houses completely differently and explained exactly why. First roofer I have dealt with who treated it as a question worth asking.
Commercial roofing for northeast Arkansas buildings
We look after metal buildings, low-slope decks downtown, agricultural and processing facilities, clinics and the multifamily stock that a university town carries a lot of. Work is surveyed before it is quoted, sequenced around your operating hours, and reported with photographs tied to locations on a roof plan rather than a general summary at the end.
- ✓Core samples and moisture scanning before any low-slope scope is priced
- ✓Fastener replacement and seam treatment on metal buildings before re-cover is considered
- ✓TPO, EPDM and modified bitumen specified for the deck and the traffic, not by preference
- ✓Rooftop equipment curbs, condensate lines and pipe supports corrected as part of the scope
- ✓Scupper, leader and internal drain discharge mapped where the building sits on ridge ground
- ✓Night and weekend crews where a warehouse or clinic cannot stop for the day
- ✓Phased multi-year plans with the roof areas ranked by remaining life
- ✓Written maintenance visits twice a year with photographs kept building by building
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a roofer in Arkansas have to be licensed?
For residential roofing the state requires a registration rather than a license. Since January 2022 anyone taking residential roofing, roof deck or roofing sheet metal work over two thousand dollars, counting labor and material together, must hold a Residential Roofing Registration Certificate from the Contractors Licensing Board and carry a fifteen thousand dollar surety bond. Commercial work crosses into licensing at fifty thousand dollars. Ask for the number and look it up.
Why does a roofing company keep talking about my soil?
Because Jonesboro is built on Crowley's Ridge and the ridge is capped with loess, a windblown silt the Arkansas Geological Survey describes as calcareous silt that will hold a high vertical face. Dry it behaves like rock. Wet and concentrated at one point, it moves. Your roof concentrates thousands of gallons a year into three or four small outlets, so the outlet detail is a roofing decision here whether anyone quotes it or not.
Should I bury my downspout drains?
On the ridge, no. The loess soils here sit over a fragipan, a dense brittle layer the soil surveys put roughly two feet down, and water that cannot go down goes sideways at about the depth of your footing. Out on the Delta flat the reasoning is different again, because there the issue is a high water table rather than moving soil. The right answer depends on your address, not your town.
How long does a roof last in northeast Arkansas?
Twenty to twenty-five years is a fair expectation for a well-nailed architectural laminate roof, less on a west-facing plane with no shade over it. Ventilation changes that number more than brand does. An attic with blocked soffit intake runs hot and damp and cooks the shingle from underneath, which is why we measure intake before we sell anyone a new roof.
Will my insurance pay for the erosion at my downspout?
No. Standard homeowners forms exclude earth movement and surface water, so the gully at the outlet is yours to fix even when the same storm produced covered damage on the roof above it. We separate the two in writing at the inspection so nothing surprises you at the adjuster meeting. The roof half is often payable and we will document it properly.
Do you work outside Jonesboro?
Yes, across Craighead, Greene, Poinsett, Mississippi, Jackson, Lawrence, Clay and Cross counties. Places like Harrisburg, Paragould, Wynne, Piggott and Rector sit on or against the ridge and get the same detailing Jonesboro does. Bay, Trumann, Manila and Osceola are out on the alluvial flat and get a different drainage answer, which we will explain on site.