Roof repair and reroofs for Arkadelphia homes, rentals and campus streets

Arkadelphia is one of the few small towns with two universities. Ouachita Baptist and Henderson State sit across US 67 from each other, and the streets around them are full of houses rented to students, faculty and staff. Those roofs take more abuse and get less attention than owner-occupied homes.

On rentals we often find patched shingles in three colors, satellite dish holes left open, and plumbing boots that cracked years ago. Tenants rarely report a stain until it spreads, so small leaks have time to rot decking around chimneys and vents.

The summer break is the best window for landlords. Houses are often empty between leases, crews can work without disrupting anyone, and a new roof is in place before August move-in.

Parents who buy a house for a student to live in during school and sell after graduation have their own goal: a roof that will pass a buyer's inspection in four years. We price that kind of job with the resale in mind.

On March 1, 1997, an F4 tornado tore through Arkadelphia and heavily damaged about sixty blocks of downtown. A large number of houses and buildings were repaired or rebuilt in the following year or two.

Any of those roofs that have not been replaced since are now close to thirty years old, well past the normal life of most asphalt shingles. If you own a house in the older part of town and do not know when the roof went on, it is worth having it looked at before the next spring storm season.

We check the age by shingle style, layers and decking, then tell you plainly whether you have a few years left with repairs or whether replacement is the better use of your money.

Homes change hands often in a college town. Faculty relocate, investors buy and sell rentals, and families move closer to DeGray Lake. A roof question can stall a closing, so we offer roof inspections with a written condition report and photos that buyers, sellers and lenders can read.

If the inspection finds problems, we price the repairs in writing so both sides can negotiate from real numbers. If the roof is sound, the report says so and explains what we checked.

• Real estate roof inspection with written report: typically $185 to $340
• Rental leak repair at boots, vents or chimney: typically $385 to $1,180
• Full shingle replacement on a mid-size home: typically $9,640 to $16,780

Arkadelphia gets the same spring severe weather season as Little Rock, with hail and straight-line winds from roughly March through June. Homes on open lots near the interstate catch more wind than shaded streets close to the river.

Toward DeGray Lake, houses on wooded lots deal with falling limbs, clogged gutters and algae on damp north slopes. Summer heat bakes south facing shingles on brick ranches across town, and we often find curled tabs on one side of a roof and decent shingles on the other.

After hail, we mark and photograph each hit so you can see what we found before calling your insurance carrier.

Gutters matter more than most owners expect in Arkadelphia. On older homes, undersized gutters overflow during heavy rain bursts and soak the fascia, and the rot often spreads into the first course of decking. We check the edge of the roof on every visit, not just the shingles.

Call (501) 387-1152 to set a time. Arkadelphia is about an hour from our downtown Little Rock office, so we plan visits in advance and group nearby jobs to keep each trip productive. For landlords with several houses, we can inspect them on the same day.

When storms hit, we tarp active leaks first and schedule permanent repairs after. You get a written price before work starts, and every job ends with cleanup and a magnet sweep for nails, which matters on rental lots where tenants walk barefoot to the car.

If you manage rentals from out of town, we can coordinate entry with a tenant or a property manager and send photos of every stage so you see the work without making the drive yourself.