Lake Charles Premium Roofing provides professional roofing services in Jennings, LA — Jefferson Davis Parish, population 9,837. From roof replacement and roof leak repair to insurance claim documentation, our insured team serves Jennings homes and businesses.
Jennings property owners near the W. H. Tupper General Merchandise Museum, the Jefferson Davis Parish Courthouse count on Lake Charles Premium Roofing for roofing contractor in Jennings. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Lake Charles to every job in Jennings, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (888) 773-6279 for a free roofing estimate in Jennings, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Roofing in Jennings, LA
On 12 May 2024 two hail reports came out of Jennings seven minutes apart, at 14:23 and 14:30, both measured at two and a half inches. Only Oberlin and Starks have larger stones on file among the towns we serve, and this particular hail came down onto a housing stock whose median build year is 1970.
Half the roughly 4,689 housing units in Jennings predate 1970. That is the oldest profile of any town this size we work in, and it is why the deck conversation here is not optional. Owner occupancy runs near 64 percent, median value around $136,700, and vacancy sits close to 18 percent.
Two-and-a-half-inch hail on a 1960s deck does something different from what it does on a 2015 roof. The shingle fractures, but the fastener also works loose in a plank that has already been nailed through three times across three roof jobs, and a repair that treats only the first problem comes back inside a season looking like new damage.
The wind record here is unusually violent for a flat prairie town. In December 2011 a 65-knot event damaged at least three buildings and tore the roof off a business. Fourteen months later, in February 2012, another 65-knot event dropped trees on at least five homes and five vehicles.
Jefferson Davis Parish also holds the strongest single thunderstorm gust in the six-parish record, 93 knots in April 2019, and it is filed under an airport identifier rather than under any town. That is one more reason to read a source rather than a summary of it, and to ask a bidder to show you the entry he is describing.
Then there is Lili. In October 2002 the federal file puts twenty million dollars of hurricane damage on Jefferson Davis Parish, against five hundred thousand for Calcasieu. Jennings took the worse end of that storm by a factor of forty, and almost nobody outside the parish now remembers it that way.
Jennings runs its own inspector out of the fire department building on North Broadway, and the city's permit fee is $3.50 per thousand dollars of fair market value or $82.48 per square foot under roof, whichever is greater, with no minimum. Jefferson Davis Parish, which handles the unincorporated ground outside, sets a $250 minimum instead.
Getting a free estimate in Jennings
Call (888) 773-6279 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Jennings, 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 Prien, LA and the rest of Southwest Louisiana. Everything starts at the Lake Charles Premium Roofing homepage.
The roofing jobs Jennings calls us for
Lake Charles Premium Roofing covers the same range of work in Jennings that we do in Lake Charles — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Roof Leak Repair — Most leaks we chase in Lake Charles are not flashing failures. They are 2020 tarp screws that nobody pulled, sitting in the middle of a field of shingles where no reasonable person would think to look for water.
- Storm Damage Restoration — Southwest Louisiana homes carry two named-storm events six weeks apart, and five years on the paperwork still matters. Sorting what Laura did from what Delta did is the first job on almost every restoration scope we write here.
- Hail Damage Roofing — Hail is not what breaks roofs in Calcasieu Parish, and we will say that before we say anything else. Southwest Louisiana does get hail out of spring squall lines, but the damage that put this parish under tarps was wind and water.
- Wind Damage Roofing — The wind damage that matters here is usually invisible from the driveway. A shingle that lost its sealant bond in 2020 still looks fine, still lies flat on a calm day, and lifts like a page in a book every time a squall comes up the Calcasieu.
- Roof Inspections — Our inspections start in your attic, not on your roof. In Lake Charles the evidence that decides your scope is on the underside of the sheathing, and you cannot see one bit of it from a ladder.
- Asphalt Shingle Roofs — Architectural asphalt is the right shingle for almost every house in this parish. The question worth asking is not which brand to buy.
See the full list of Lake Charles services, or call (888) 773-6279.
About Jennings, LA — and why local matters here
Jennings sits in Jefferson Davis Parish with a population of roughly 9,837, close enough to Lake Charles that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include the W. H. Tupper General Merchandise Museum, the Jefferson Davis Parish Courthouse.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Jennings properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Jefferson Davis Parish, 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 Jennings: Roof Replacement and Roof Leak Repair.
We also serve Prien, LA and Southwest Louisiana.