Nashville Premium Roofing: Roof Replacement & Leak Repair
Expert residential and commercial roofing services. Free slope-by-slope inspections across Nashville, Brentwood, Hendersonville, Franklin and Mount Juliet.
- Licensed and insured Tennessee roofing contractor, license number on every proposal
- Free slope-by-slope inspection with photographs of every valley, gutter run and overhang
- Limb clearance and debris work priced with the roof, never billed later as an extra
- Written workmanship warranty alongside the manufacturer's material warranty
Roofing Work We Do in Nashville
Residential Roof Installation
The start of a build, not the end of a roof. New construction, an addition, a dormer, a garage or ADU conversion, or sheathing being replaced as structure.
Commercial Roof Installation
Commercial work here runs from single-story retail on Nolensville Pike to warehouse fields in MetroCenter and mixed-use buildings on tree-lined streets in Germantown and 12South. The street trees matter more than owners expect, because on a parapet building the debris has nowhere at all to go.
Roof Replacement
Most Nashville roofs we replace did not wear out evenly. The slope facing open sky still holds granule cover, while the slope under a hickory or tulip poplar is scoured bald in streaks.
Roof Repair
The work here begins with damage you can point at: shingles rolled back by a straight-line wind, a perished vent boot, a ridge cap torn off, a limb through one face, nails backing out of a sun-beaten pitch. Hunting a leak is different work.
Asphalt Shingle Roofs
Asphalt covers the overwhelming majority of roofs in Middle Tennessee, and it stays the right answer for most houses here. What changes under heavy canopy is which asphalt product, and how it is fastened.
Cool Roof Installation
Nashville is the case where the answer is mostly no, and we would rather say it on the page than at your table. Middle Tennessee runs hot summers, but the heating season is the longer and more expensive half of the year, and a reflective roof works against that half.
Flat & Low-Slope Roofing
Low slope shows up on Nashville houses more often than people realize: rear additions, sunroom and porch roofs, shed dormers, and the flat sections over garages on mid-century ranches in Green Hills and Crieve Hall. Almost all of them sit lower than the main roof, and that is the trouble.
Hail Damage Roofing
Middle Tennessee does get hail, usually out of the same spring squall lines that break limbs. That overlap is the whole problem.
Insurance Claim Help
Insurance help on a wooded lot comes down to one distinction: sudden damage is generally covered, gradual deterioration is not. A limb through the deck during a storm is a covered event.
Metal Roofing
This is the page where we argue against our own upsell. Metal is an excellent roof, we install a good deal of it, and on a heavily canopied Nashville lot it is frequently the wrong choice.
Roof Leak Repair
A ceiling stain almost never sits under the hole. Water enters high, runs along the underside of the deck to a rafter, follows that rafter downhill, and drops wherever the framing changes direction.
Roof Skylight Installation
Before we sell you a skylight, we go outside and look up. Under a closed hardwood canopy a skylight delivers far less light than the brochure suggests for eight months of the year, and it makes a debris trap for all twelve.
Storm Damage Restoration
In a tree-heavy market a storm does not arrive on your roof as weather. It arrives as wood.
Tile Roofing
Tile is uncommon in Middle Tennessee but it is not rare. Concrete and clay tile turn up on Mediterranean-influenced custom houses built from the 1990s onward, mostly in the wealthier wooded pockets of Davidson and Williamson Counties.
Wind Damage Roofing
Wind behaves oddly on a wooded street. A slope buried under mature canopy sees less direct uplift than the same slope on an open lot, which sounds like good news.
Late March through May is when the phone changes character here. The same front that drops hail usually sends straight-line wind in behind it, and the wind is what takes most Nashville roofs apart.
The December 2021 event that cut a swath across Crieve Hall, Nippers Corner and Brentwood at an estimated seventy miles an hour stripped material off houses and apartment buildings without a stone falling.
So we write hail bruising, wind lift and limb impact as three separate findings, photographed, because an adjuster reads them three different ways and a claim built on the wrong one comes back denied.
Nashville Premium Roofing is a licensed, insured roofing contractor in Nashville, Tennessee, handling roof replacement, leak repair, storm and limb damage, flashing, ventilation and low-slope work on homes and commercial buildings. We install laminated architectural shingles, SBS-modified shingles, standing seam and exposed-fastener metal, concrete tile, TPO and two-ply modified bitumen. The slope-by-slope inspection is free and photographed, and the written scope reaches you before anyone talks about money.
The older the street, the steeper the roof. East Nashville, Germantown and Inglewood carry pitches that stop being walkable, one-by board sheathing with gaps between the boards, and soft historic mortar that will not hold a saw-cut reglet for chimney counterflashing.
Add the humidity and a north slope that never fully dries, and moss settles at the course edges and holds water against the shingle. In our opinion that roof gets misdiagnosed more than any other in this city: streaked and green reads as worn out, and the mat underneath is often still sound.
Metal is the one we argue with ourselves about. Standing seam on concealed clips is a thirty-year decision and it prices like one. Exposed-fastener panel lands well below it and ages the way guitar strings do, in that the panel outlasts the hardware and the job quietly turns into revisiting a few thousand screws and their neoprene washers.
Gauge, panel width, seam type and the number of penetrations move either number more than square footage does. On a house we would rather you buy standing seam or keep the shingle, because exposed fastener belongs on a shop or a detached garage.
Permitting here is its own map.
Metro treats a repair touching more than a third of the roof area as beyond normal maintenance, which is where a permit enters the conversation, while the satellite cities inside Davidson County, Belle Meade and Forest Hills among them, enforce their own codes instead, and Belle Meade's guidelines reach as far as panel color, exposed screws and where a vent may sit.
Meanwhile the teardown blocks keep putting new roofs beside 1940s ones, and a five-year-old roof is not automatically a good roof. We have opinions about that too.
What Nashville Customers Say
They spent longer looking at our trees than at the roof, which felt odd until they showed us the photos. Two limbs were resting on the ridge and the valley under the big oak was packed solid. The quote covered the clearing and the open valley metal along with the shingles, and nothing was added afterwards.
Our north slope had lost tabs twice in three years while the front of the house never did. They explained the sealant strip back there never gets warm enough under the trees, hand-sealed the courses and thinned the canopy over that slope. Two storm seasons since and nothing has moved.
Two other companies quoted us a full replacement. These guys got up there, cleared both valleys, replaced one pipe boot and a length of fascia, and told us the roof had six or seven years left in it. The invoice was under a thousand dollars. They will get the replacement when it is actually time.
A limb came through the back bedroom deck in a March storm. They rigged the wood off in sections instead of dragging it, tarped with screwed battens rather than sandbags, and photographed everything before it moved. The adjuster accepted the scope without an argument. The ceiling looks like nothing ever happened.
Why Nashville Chooses Nashville Premium Roofing
- ✓Hail bruising, wind lift and limb impact are written up as three separate findings with photographs, because an adjuster reads them three different ways
- ✓A cleaning and a ridge zinc strip get quoted beside the replacement price on a mossy north slope, so you can see when the cheap answer is the right one
- ✓Standing seam on concealed clips is the only metal we will put on a house, and exposed fastener goes on the shop, the barn or the detached garage
- ✓We establish whether Metro's one-third rule or a satellite city's own code governs your address before the proposal is written, not after the crew arrives
- ✓Steep pitch, board sheathing and soft historic mortar are priced in days and fasteners up front, because that is what an old Nashville roof actually costs
About Nashville Premium Roofing in Nashville, TN
Nashville Premium Roofing works Nashville, Brentwood, Franklin, Hendersonville, Mount Juliet, Murfreesboro and the Middle Tennessee towns around them. Residential replacement and leak repair make up most of the work, alongside wind and hail damage, fascia rebuilds, chimney flashing, ventilation corrections and low-slope work on additions, porches and commercial buildings.
Two clocks run on a roof in this city. One is the storm clock: hail in spring, straight-line wind behind it, damage that lands on a date you can name and that an adjuster can photograph.
The other runs all year and it is humidity, which keeps a shaded north slope damp, grows moss at the course edges, and holds wet leaf litter in a valley until the plywood beneath it goes soft. Most contractors price the first clock. The second one is what usually ends the roof.
There are jobs we turn down, and they tend to be the ones with the largest invoice attached. If a roof is streaked and mossy but the mat is still sound, it needs a cleaning, a ridge zinc strip and a clearing date rather than a replacement, and we will say so and leave.
If you want exposed-fastener panel on a two-story house because it is the cheap way into metal, we are the wrong contractor, and we would rather lose the sale than put our name on it.
How It Works
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Free Inspection, Slope by Slope and Limb by Limb
We walk every slope we can stand on safely and use a pole camera for the rest, then record what sits above each plane: contact limbs, species overhead, and which slopes take nut, husk or seed drop. Valleys, gutters, fascia and soffit screens all get photographed.
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A Written Scope With Three Lists
You get one document separating what leaks now, what will leak within two seasons, and what only needs watching. Clearance and debris work sits in that same document, priced, so nothing arrives later as a surprise line item.
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Install Detailed for the Load Above It
Open valley metal under canopy, hand-sealed starter and first courses on shaded slopes, six-nail fastening through the common bond, ice-and-water at eaves and penetrations.
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Walkthrough, Magnet Sweep and a Maintenance Date
We clean the site, run a magnet across the lawn and drives, walk the finished roof with you against the written scope, and set a clearing date after the May seed drop and after leaf fall so the roof starts its life empty.
Commercial Roofing in Nashville and Across Middle Tennessee
We roof and maintain retail strips, restaurants, warehouse and flex space, apartment buildings and older masonry properties across Davidson, Williamson, Rutherford, Sumner and Wilson Counties. On parapet buildings ringed by mature street trees the drains do the work a pitched roof does for itself, so drain protection, overflow scuppers and a real maintenance schedule matter more than the membrane upgrade most owners get sold first. We work around operating hours and phase around tenants.
- ✓60 and 80 mil TPO, EPDM and two-ply modified bitumen systems
- ✓Dome strainers, drain rebuilds and overflow scuppers added where none exist
- ✓Parapet base flashing, mechanical termination and coping with cover-plated joints
- ✓Grease-resistant membrane and sacrificial pads at restaurant kitchen curbs
- ✓Tapered insulation to correct dead-flat decks and ponding areas
- ✓Walkway pads along every service route to rooftop equipment
- ✓Twice-yearly inspections with photographs of every drain, seam and penetration
- ✓Phased tear-off and dry-in so tenants stay open through the work
Communities We Serve
Nashville Premium Roofing serves Nashville, TN and surrounding communities including:
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Frequently Asked Questions
Does a roofer need a license for my house in Davidson County?
Tennessee requires a contractor's license for any project of $25,000 or more, statewide. On top of that, Davidson, Robertson and Rutherford Counties have adopted the state Home Improvement license, which covers residential work from $3,000 to $24,999.
Williamson, Sumner, Wilson, Maury, Cheatham and Dickson Counties have not adopted it, so a small repair in Brentwood sits under a different requirement than the same repair in Nashville. Ask for a license number either way, and check it against the state board's public register before you sign anything.
How far back should trees be cut from the roof?
Aim for eight to ten feet of clear air above the roof plane wherever the tree allows it. That distance keeps limbs off the surface in a gust, puts most leaf drop past the eave instead of into the valleys, and gives shaded slopes a chance to dry between rains.
Where a protected or simply irreplaceable tree makes it impossible, the answer is not to force it. We detail the roof for the load instead: open valleys, heavier shingle, oversized outlets and a clearing schedule you actually keep.
My gutters are sagging and pulling off the house. Is that a roofing job?
Yes, and it is usually further along than it looks. A sagging run means the hangers have already lost their grip on the fascia, which means water has been spilling behind the gutter and soaking the top edge of that board for some time.
Replacing the gutter without dealing with the fascia and the drip edge behind it puts new metal onto rotten wood. We open it up, replace the board back to solid framing, reset the drip edge, then re-hang on screwed hidden hangers.
How often do valleys and gutters need clearing on a wooded lot?
Twice a year is the realistic number here, and the timing matters more than the count. The first visit goes after the spring drop in May, when oak catkins, maple samaras and sweetgum debris come down together and block outlets. The second goes after leaf fall finishes in late November or early December.
A single autumn cleaning leaves the roof carrying its spring load right through the summer storms, which is when most of the valley leaks we get called for actually begin.
An adjuster said my damage is not hail. Could it still be storm damage?
Often, yes, and the difference is worth understanding. Hail bruising is random across a slope, spongy under a thumb, and comes with dents on gutter aprons and vent caps. Limb and nut impact arrives in lines and arcs, abrades granules in streaks, clusters under the canopy, and frequently leaves bark or lichen pressed into the shingle.
Both can be storm damage, but they are documented and adjusted differently. We photograph and label which one you have before a claim is filed rather than after.
Is a metal roof a good idea under big trees?
Often not, and we will say so before quoting one. Hickory nuts and green-hulled black walnuts falling forty feet dent metal pans permanently, and a smooth standing seam panel telegraphs every hit down its length. Walnut hulls also stain light panels with a tannin that does not wash off.
On a heavily canopied lot we usually recommend a laminated or SBS-modified asphalt roof, which absorbs point impact instead of recording it. If you want metal anyway, go to 24-gauge striated pans rather than smooth 26-gauge.