Home and Farm Building Roofing in Lamar
Lamar is a small farm town in the southern part of Darlington County, surrounded by row crops, with a short main street and homes spread out along the roads that lead into it. Many properties here have a house and a barn or two on the same lot, so a roofing visit in Lamar often means looking at more than one roof. The house might have shingles; the shed, the barn and the shop next to it almost certainly have metal.
We come out from Florence for repairs, replacements and metal work on all of them.
The buildings in and around Lamar
In town you see older frame homes with steep roofs and front porches, alongside brick ranches built in the decades after the war and a few newer homes. On the farm side, there are equipment sheds, old barns, packing buildings and shops of every age and size. The roofs on those outbuildings range from galvanized panels put up generations ago to newer painted metal.
Older frame homes tend to leak at the porch tie-in, around chimneys and in the valleys. The ranches mostly show their age through brittle shingles and cracked boots around vent pipes. The metal buildings have their own list: fasteners that backed out or rusted, rubber washers that dried and cracked, gaps under the ridge cap that let in rain and birds, and rust working in from the panel laps. A lot of those can be refastened and resealed; when the panels are too far gone, we go over what a new metal roof involves, from panel style to trim.
Storms, wind and pines in farm country
Open fields leave Lamar exposed to every summer thunderstorm that crosses the county. Straight-line winds lift shingle edges on houses and peel loose metal panels off barns, and hail now and then dents metal and bruises shingles in the same storm. Spring storm season brings tornado warnings to the Pee Dee, and the squall lines that come with it hit farm towns like this without much warning.
Pines stand along the fence rows and around the older homeplaces, and they drop limbs on houses and sheds alike. Needles fill the valleys and gutters on the shaded side of a house and keep the shingles wet. On metal outbuildings, a limb strike usually means bent panels and torn fastener holes; on a shingle roof it often means cracked decking under what looks like a scuff from the ground.
Several buildings, one look
Lamar is a bit further out than some towns we cover, and its farms and homesteads have a lot in common with Darlington and the Timmonsville side. If you have more than one building that needs a look, mention all of them in the message box and we will check each one on the same visit. After a storm, open roofs get tarped first, and permanent repairs follow once the weather is dry.
When a house roof has worn out, we lay out the case for a complete re-roof and walk you through how it is done, from tear-off and decking repairs to the new underlayment and shingles.
On a farm property the roofs rarely wear out at the same rate. A house re-roofed fifteen years ago can sit next to a pole barn with its original metal and a shop patched with panels from three different repairs. Looking at all of them together makes it easier to decide what needs work now and what can wait another season or two.
Ask for a free look at your Lamar roofs
Put your name and phone number in the form, and the address if you want. In the message box, tell us what you have, whether it is the house, the barn, a shop or all three, and what is wrong: leaks, missing panels, storm damage or just age. We call back to set a time.