Ocean Springs Exposure-Rated Roofing Services — Insured

Roofing in Ocean Springs, MS

No city in this service area publishes a tougher set of reroofing rules than Ocean Springs, and the building department hands them out as a signed guide rather than burying them in an ordinance nobody reads. Darrell Stringfellow and Joe Tabor put their names on the bottom of it.

The guide states plainly that every part of the city counts as a high wind area and that all residential neighborhoods sit in the 160 mile per hour three second gust zone. Because of that design speed the 2024 residential and building codes require asphalt shingles tested to ASTM D3161 Class H, and metal has to be 26 gauge or heavier.

Here is the part crews forget. The bundle wrapper has to carry the label proving that rating, and the inspector checks the shingle against the printed instructions on that wrapper at inspection time. Six nails per shingle is the floor, and the manufacturer's own written instructions are enforced as if they were code.

Metal drip edge is required at eaves and at rakes, not just at eaves. Step flashing runs four by four inches minimum, one piece on every course. No overlay is permitted, one layer only.

Where an existing deck turns out thinner than seven sixteenths of an inch, the city requires it removed and replaced at five eighths, nailed four inches on edges and six in the field. Below a two in twelve pitch asphalt shingles are not permitted at all unless a membrane goes down first.

There is a threshold worth knowing before you call anybody. City policy treats one square or less of covering repair as maintenance needing no permit, but anything past a square needs one, and any deck repair at all triggers both a permit and a nailing inspection. The permit card has to be visible from the street while work runs.

Final inspections are required on every residential and commercial building here as a matter of city policy, not as a discretionary extra.

The closing document is an inspection affidavit sworn before a notary in Jackson County, in which the contractor confirms the deck nailing and the roof system comply. Contractors register with a state license and a certificate of insurance carrying three hundred thousand per occurrence and six hundred thousand aggregate. The city stopped issuing licenses of its own and follows the state board instead.

Water is the other half of the story. The USGS gauge on Old Fort Bayou inside these city limits topped out nine and a half feet over the mean higher high water line during Zeta. Bungalows near Government Street and the Walter Anderson Museum of Art often sit on plank decking that has to be renailed before any of the above means much at all. Email leads@biloxiroofpros.com.