Roofing for Mocksville and rural Davie County
Mocksville is the county seat of Davie County — a town of about 5,500 with a much larger rural population spread across country roads and multi-acre lots. It sits roughly 25-30 minutes west of our shop on Reynolda Road in Winston-Salem, just off I-40 and Highway 601. The roofing here looks different from the cookie-cutter subdivision work we do in Clemmons or Kernersville: fewer matched developments, more individually-built homes spanning 50-plus years of construction, and a far higher proportion of metal roofs than anywhere else in our service area.
We’ve been on Triad roofs for decades, and we work Davie County regularly enough to know it. Our crews are W-2 employees — never subcontractors — so the same people who tear off your roof are the ones standing behind the three-year workmanship warranty years later.
What Mocksville roofs actually need
The housing stock spans the full range, and our material lineup matches it:
- Asphalt architectural shingles for the mid-century ranches throughout the county and the newer subdivisions on the outskirts. We’re an Owens Corning Platinum Preferred Contractor — the top 1% of OC contractors in North America — and also install GAF and CertainTeed. We install architectural shingles almost exclusively; three-tab is being phased out and offers worse long-term value.
- Standing seam metal for the rural homes where 50-plus-year life is the goal. Metal is a traditional choice in Davie County for primary residences, and we install painted steel for the mainstream applications plus aluminum or copper where the budget allows.
- Corrugated and ribbed metal for the detached garages, workshops, barns, and pole buildings that come with so many Davie County properties. We quote these regularly, often bundled into a primary-home project so you’re not paying for two separate mobilizations.
- Designer profiles like Owens Corning Berkshire for the larger custom homes where the roof is highly visible from a long driveway.
What’s different about working out here
- Mix of eras. The historic core around the courthouse square has 1880s-1920s Victorians; the county roads have ranches and farmhouses; the edges have newer builds. We install across all of it rather than forcing one system on every home.
- Larger lots, longer driveways. Mobilization on a multi-acre property takes real planning. We bring tarps and material staging that account for the distance from truck to roof, and we don’t cut cleanup short because the drive home is longer.
- Ventilation that’s usually wrong. Most builder-grade and older country roofs run unbalanced ventilation — too little intake at the eaves, passive vents at the ridge. When we replace a roof we bring it to code (about 1 sq ft net free area per 300 sq ft of attic) and install continuous baffled ridge vents, not the stamped aluminum kind that blow out in the first hailstorm. This is the boring detail that decides whether your roof lasts 25 years or 35.
Storm damage and adjusters
The same Piedmont weather that hammers Winston-Salem hits Davie County. Storm chasers work the area hard after events, often targeting rural homeowners who don’t already have a roofer. Our process is simple: free inspection, written report with photos, and direct work with adjusters on honest scopes. About 40% of our inspections end with “your roof is fine, see you in a few years” — we don’t use them as a sales tool.
Why Mocksville homeowners choose Mid Atlantic
- Owens Corning Platinum Preferred for asphalt and genuine metal roofing experience — standing seam on homes, corrugated on outbuildings
- A+ BBB, multiple Angie’s List Super Service Awards, 4.8★ on Google and Facebook
- In-house W-2 crews that handle the longer drive without skipping cleanup
- Fully insured with minimum $1,000,000 general liability
- 3-year workmanship warranty, plus manufacturer system warranties up to 50 years
Schedule a Mocksville estimate
Call (336) 671-5208 or request an estimate online. For Mocksville and the surrounding rural Davie County, we typically schedule inspections within a week.