Cary Roof Pros provides professional roofing services in Selma, NC — Johnston County, population 6,317. From residential roof installation and commercial roof installation to wind damage roofing, our insured team serves Selma homes and businesses.
Selma property owners near the Selma Union Depot, Mitchener Station count on Cary Roof Pros for roofing contractor in Selma. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Cary to every job in Selma, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (877) 510-4132 for a free roofing estimate in Selma, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Roofing in Selma, NC
We will not sell you a hail claim in Selma. In thirty years of federal storm records the largest hailstone ever reported here measures 0.88 inches, below severe criteria, and no tornado is recorded at this location at all. If a canvasser told you otherwise, ask for the date.
Wind is the real exposure. Sixty-knot thunderstorm gusts struck on 5 July 2002 and again on 8 March 2005, the second with $40,000 in reported property damage. Fourteen wind entries against a single hail entry is an unusual ratio, and it points an inspection at ridge, rakes and starter course. Fourteen wind entries against one hail entry is a ratio we have not seen in any other town here.
Selma carries the oldest housing on this list after Smithfield. The median unit dates to 1974, 55 percent predates 1980, and 10.1 percent predates 1940, the highest pre-1940 share of any town we serve and a meaningful one on a street of frame houses.
Those older frame houses carry simple gable roofs with short runs and straightforward flashing, which is genuinely good news for an owner. Simple geometry keeps repair costs sensible, and it makes repair the honest answer far more often than in a 2010 subdivision with six valleys and three dormers. Median value is $171,600 across roughly 3,400 units, second lowest of the twenty-five towns we cover.
Owner occupancy is 43 percent, the lowest of the twenty-five towns here, just under Carrboro. A large rental share means the person who reports the leak often cannot authorize the work, so we write two documents: a condition report for the tenant and a priced scope for the owner.
Seventy-seven percent of Selma homes heat with electricity and only 13 percent with gas. On stock this old that frequently means an abandoned masonry chimney venting nothing at all, and an abandoned chimney is a common source of the ceiling stain that gets blamed on the shingles around it. Sixty percent of units are detached and 8 percent attached, so the ownership question is usually simple.
The Selma Union Depot and Mitchener Station anchor a downtown of masonry storefronts with low-slope rear roofs. We price that work by the job rather than by the square, because a 900-square-foot rear section with three penetrations is not a fraction of a residential reroof in any useful sense.
About Selma, NC — and why local matters here
Selma sits in Johnston County with a population of roughly 6,317, close enough to Cary that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include the Selma Union Depot, Mitchener Station.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Selma properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Johnston 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.
Getting a free estimate in Selma
Call (877) 510-4132 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Selma, 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 Angier, NC and the rest of the Research Triangle. Everything starts at the Cary Roof Pros homepage.
The roofing jobs Selma calls us for
Cary Roof Pros covers the same range of work in Selma that we do in Cary — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Residential Roof Installation — Ask one question before anyone quotes a new roof in Cary. Which edition of the residential code is your permit issued under.
- Commercial Roof Installation — Cary's commercial stock sits under private design control as much as its houses do. Office parks and retail centers here carry recorded guidelines and owners' associations of their own, and a roof change on a visible building goes through review the same way.
- Roof Replacement — A replacement in a covenant-governed Cary subdivision is really two projects. One is the roof.
- Roof Repair — Most of the roofs we repair in Cary are not finished. One slope took a hit, the rest has years left, and the only real question is whether a patch is a purchase or a postponement.
- Asphalt Shingle Roofs — Asphalt is what nearly every Cary declaration actually names. That makes this page less about whether to use asphalt and more about which laminate, in which blend, will clear review and still look right on a twenty-year-old street.
- Cool Roof Installation — Cary sits in the mixed-humid middle, which is the honest answer nobody gives on this page. A cool roof is neither obviously right nor obviously wrong here.
See the full list of Cary services, or call (877) 510-4132.
Popular services in Selma: Residential Roof Installation and Commercial Roof Installation.
We also serve Angier, NC and the Research Triangle.