Roofing Contractor in Jenks, Oklahoma
This is where the trucks leave from every morning. Jenks is not a town we drive to. It is the town we drive out of.
Our Shop on East Main Street
Our Oklahoma office is at 508 E Main St, and every crew we send out across the metro leaves from here. When you call (918) 260-5322, the phone rings in this building, and somebody answers it between 8:00 AM and 7:00 PM every day of the week.
Jenks was platted on July 15, 1905, under an agreement between the Midland Valley Railroad and the Midland Valley Townsite Company, and it took its name from a railroad official named Jenks. The records disagree on whether that was William Henry or Elmer E., and we are not going to pretend to settle it. What is not in dispute is how much the town has grown since: 25,949 people at the 2020 Census. And its history runs back further than the platting. Tulsa County's first homestead, established by the Perryman family, sits within today's city limits.
Being based here changes one practical thing for a Jenks homeowner. An inspection on your street is a short drive from the shop, not a morning out of somebody's schedule, which counts for the most in the week after a storm, when every roofer in Tulsa County is booked.
The Levee, the River, and Why Water Matters Here
Jenks sits on the Arkansas River, and for half a century the river decided what happened to this town. From 1904 through the 1950s, the Arkansas and Polecat Creek flooded Jenks again and again, until voters paid for the levee that was finished in 1948. The levee keeps the river out of the streets. It does nothing about the air.
A river valley holds moisture, and moisture is a roofing problem that works from the inside. Warm, damp air rises into the attic, meets the cold underside of the roof deck on a winter night, and condenses. Do that for enough winters in a poorly ventilated attic and the plywood rots from below while the shingles on top still look fine. In Jenks, ventilation is the first thing an inspection should look at, before the shingles.
The same damp shows up on the shaded slopes. A north-facing roof under big trees on the Arkansas River side of Jenks dries slowly after every rain, and that is where the dark streaks and moss start. Neither one is an emergency, but both hold water against the shingle surface longer than it was designed for.
What the 2024 Hail Did
On May 21, 2024, the National Weather Service logged 2.00 inch hail at Jenks with the survey note "Hen egg size hail damaged homes and vehicles." On May 19, 2025, almost exactly a year later, the same reporting point logged hail of the same size again.
Two hen egg storms in consecutive springs is the part worth sitting with. A roof that took the first one and showed nothing obvious had its granule surface knocked thin and its mat bruised. The second storm landed on a roof already weakened. Over the full ten years we looked at, the Jenks reporting point recorded 34 significant storm events and 21 separate hail events at an inch or larger, so these two were not freak occurrences. They were the biggest of a long list.
If nobody has been up on your roof since May 2024, two hailstorms of that size have crossed it unexamined. Hail damage rarely leaks right away, which is exactly why it gets missed until a claim deadline has passed. Our free roof inspection exists for this.
Streets and Districts We Work
We roof all over Jenks, but a few parts of town come up in the storm record by name, and those are worth describing honestly rather than listing subdivisions we cannot vouch for.
Riverside Drive and the river side of town
On July 14, 2016, a 70 knot thunderstorm put a tree across E 91st Street at Riverside Drive. The mature trees along Riverside are part of what makes that end of town pleasant, and they are also the main roofing hazard there. A limb does not have to fall to cause trouble: branches that rub a roof in the wind wear through shingles, and leaf litter packs into valleys and gutters until water backs up under the edge courses. On these streets an inspection checks the canopy as much as the roof.
South Florence and E 116th Street
Seven years later to the day, on July 14, 2023, a 65 knot storm brought down two large trees that blocked both lanes of South Florence at E 116th Street. When wind is strong enough to close both lanes of a street with timber, the roofs under the same canopy deserve a look, even if nothing came through the ceiling. Lifted shingles and cracked seal strips from a gust like that do not announce themselves until the next heavy rain.
The Aquarium, RiverWalk and the commercial side
The Oklahoma Aquarium, home to the world's largest captive collection of bull sharks, is in Jenks, and so are RiverWalk Crossing and the River Spirit Resort and Casino beside it. That is the commercial face of the town. Commercial roofing on shops, offices and rental property is part of our work, and we schedule it around your trading hours instead of ours.
Everywhere at once, June 17, 2023
Some storms pick a street. The 70 knot storm of June 17, 2023 did not: the survey records trees and power poles down across Jenks. Another 65 knot event followed on June 26, 2024. After a town-wide storm, a roof that looks untouched from the driveway is not evidence of much, because the damage that matters most, lifted shingles with broken seals, is invisible from the ground.
Just past the city limits
The shop is about five miles from Glenpool, about seven from Bixby, and about nine from Tulsa, so those are close to home for us too.
Antique Capital Rooflines
In 1986, then-First Lady Shirley Bellmon named Jenks the Antique Capital of Oklahoma, and the Downtown Jenks Arts and Antiques District is the reason. The older commercial buildings in that district are a different roofing job from the houses around them.
If your building in the antiques district is like most older main-street storefronts, its roof is low-slope and hidden behind a parapet wall, which means water has nowhere to go except the drains and scuppers you cannot see from the sidewalk. When those clog, water pools, and a pooled low-slope roof leaks at the seams and where the roof meets the parapet. If you own or lease one of these buildings, the inspection starts at the drains and the parapet flashing, not the field of the roof.
We do flat and low-slope roofing and commercial roof repair alongside residential work, and an antiques shop gets scheduled around its hours.
Get a Free Inspection
Jenks is our own town, so an inspection here is a short drive from the shop. It costs nothing, and you keep the photos whether you hire us or not.