About Music City Roofing Co
The short version
Music City Roofing Co is a Nashville roofing company founded in 2022 by Wes Treadway, who spent the thirteen years before that auditing roof installations for a national storm-restoration firm. The company does two things, roof repair and roof replacement, and it does both of them the audit way: read the roof against a written checklist first, write down what is actually there, and price only what the reading supports.
How an auditor ends up founding a roofing company
Wes joined the storm-restoration firm in 2009 as a field inspector, the person sent to look at roofs after storms and after complaints. The work moved him up the file chain: inspector, senior inspector, then regional quality auditor over the firm's Middle Tennessee and Kentucky crews. The auditor's job is not to sell roofs or install them. It is to stand on finished work with a checklist and say, in writing, whether the installation is what the paperwork claims it is.
Thirteen years of those files taught him two things. The first is technical: roofs fail at the edges first, at flashing and valleys and penetrations, and the failures are usually set in place on install day, in fastener placement and skipped details, years before the homeowner sees a stain. The second is about information: the homeowner almost never has a way to check any of it. The roof is the largest system in the house and the least inspectable by the person paying for it. The roof keeps the receipts, but nobody hands the homeowner a way to read them.
The case that ended the audit career was not the worst roof he ever read. It was an ordinary one in Bellevue, three streets from his own house: a replacement less than four years old, already leaking at two chimneys because the old step flashing had been left in place under new shingles. The homeowner had kept every piece of paper from the job. None of it was false. None of it described the roof she actually owned.
The company he built instead
Music City Roofing Co opened in Bellevue in 2022 with the audit sheet as its founding document: forty checkpoints covering deck condition, fastener pattern, shingle sealing, flashing metals, valley construction, ventilation intake and exhaust, and drainage. The sheet runs on every estimate visit. It runs again, as a closing check, on every job the company completes. The homeowner gets a copy of the estimate-visit sheet either way, because the whole point of the company is that the person paying for the roof should hold the same information as the person selling it.
The crew is deliberately small. Dale Fennimore leads the roof work; Wes first read his installations in audit files, where they kept coming up clean, and offered him the job on the strength of other people's paperwork. Carol Voss runs the office and the files. Every roof the company touches has a written record, kept the auditor's way, that a stranger could pick up cold and understand.
What we believe, stated as working rules
- A repair should name the specific detail that failed. If nobody
can say which detail failed, nobody should be quoting yet.
- A replacement should be argued from the roof's condition, not
from its birthday. Age is a reason to read a roof, not a verdict.
- Paperwork should describe the roof that exists. That is the
entire standard, and it is harder than it sounds.
- A homeowner comparing quotes deserves the checklist more than
the pitch. Ours is free to keep either way.
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