Jackson Roof Pros provides professional roofing services in Raymond, MS — Hinds County, population 1,960. From residential roof installation and commercial roof installation to wind damage roofing, our insured team serves Raymond homes and businesses.
Raymond property owners near the Hinds County Courthouse at Raymond, Hinds Community College count on Jackson Roof Pros for roofing contractor in Raymond. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Jackson to every job in Raymond, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (888) 447-6479 for a free roofing estimate in Raymond, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Roofing in Raymond, MS
Raymond has the oldest housing on this site. Median year built is 1964, and 62.9 percent of its units predate 1970, the highest share of the twenty-five towns here. Another 27.5 percent went up in the 1970s, which leaves under ten percent of the town built in the last forty-five years.
The unit count is the other oddity. The census records only 385 housing units against a population of 1,960, because 1,049 residents, more than half the town, live in group quarters that are counted separately from the housing stock. So the roofs in question are a small, old, specific set of buildings rather than a subdivision.
On a 1964 roof we expect plank decking with gaps between the boards, two or three previous coverings, and ridge and hip lines that have been re-set at least once before. Every one of those changes what the tear-off costs, and none of them shows from the ground. We price decking per sheet and photograph what we find.
Raymond runs its own building inspector through city hall, and the Hinds County zoning ordinance expressly excludes land inside the town limits along with Bolton, Clinton, Edwards, Learned, Terry and Utica. So the county's rules stop at your city line and the town's begin, which is worth confirming before anyone quotes a code year.
For addresses outside the limits, Hinds County publishes a permit fee line for roofing specifically: a 40 dollar base cost plus 5 dollars for each thousand of construction cost above the first thousand, plus a 45 dollar inspection fee. That schedule was approved by the board of supervisors on 19 February 2019.
The dated events here are wind. On 2 March 1999 two entries an hour apart recorded damaged roofs across town and one roof blown off a house outright, with 105,000 dollars logged between them. On 12 February 2008 a 70-knot swath ran from around Raymond to around Clinton, dropping trees onto homes along the way.
Be careful with the biggest name in this file. The EF3 tornado of 15 April 2011 is filed under Raymond Williams Airport, but the survey places its most intense damage in Clinton and western Jackson, several miles northeast. It is a real tornado and it is not a Raymond tornado, whatever a search by town name returns.
Getting a free estimate in Raymond
Call (888) 447-6479 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Raymond, 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 Flora, MS and the rest of central Mississippi. Everything starts at the Jackson Roof Pros homepage.
The roofing jobs Raymond calls us for
Jackson Roof Pros covers the same range of work in Raymond that we do in Jackson — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Storm Damage Restoration — After a line of storms rolls through, the most useful thing a roofer can do for a house here is separate what the weather did from what was already there. Two conditions, two mechanisms, two dates.
- Tile Roofing — Tile is uncommon in central Mississippi and there are reasons for that. It is heavy, the supply of matching pieces here is thin, and the framing on a typical local house was never sized to carry it.
- Wind Damage Roofing — Wind does not choose a slope at random. It finds the joint that has already opened and starts there, which is why the same eight feet of ridge leaves a house three storms running.
- Residential Roof Installation — Jackson is not the coast and the code reflects that. State law compels five counties on the Gulf to enforce wind and flood mitigation provisions.
- Commercial Roof Installation — On a commercial building in this belt, the roof is the best structural instrument the owner has. A membrane records what the slab is doing in a way that a wall full of finishes never will, and it records it with dates attached.
- Roof Replacement — Replacing a roof here is worth doing once. It is worth doing twice only if you enjoy paying twice, and that is what happens when new shingles go back onto a house that is still moving underneath them.
See the full list of Jackson services, or call (888) 447-6479.
About Raymond, MS — and why local matters here
Raymond sits in Hinds County with a population of roughly 1,960, close enough to Jackson that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include the Hinds County Courthouse at Raymond, Hinds Community College.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Raymond properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Hinds 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 Raymond: Residential Roof Installation and Commercial Roof Installation.
We also serve Flora, MS and central Mississippi.