Gentry is fifteen minutes up Highway 59 from our office in Siloam Springs, which makes it one of the closest towns we serve and one we are in constantly. We cover 72734 — downtown Gentry, the Flint Creek area, Pine Ridge, the Highway 59 corridor and the properties spread out around the school district.
Town lots and acreage are two different jobs
Gentry is a small town surrounded by farmland, and roughly half of what we do here is not on a quarter-acre lot.
In town, the housing is modest and mostly straightforward: simple gable and hip roofs, single storey or storey-and-a-half, on older stock where the recurring themes are age, previous layovers and original wood soffit and fascia that has taken water from a failing gutter for years.
Out on acreage, the work changes. Longer runs, more exposure, outbuildings and shops alongside the house, and frequently metal roofing rather than asphalt. Exposed-fastener metal panels are common on rural Benton County buildings and they age in a specific way: the neoprene washers under the screws harden and shrink, the screws back out slightly, and the roof begins leaking at hundreds of individual points rather than in one place. Re-screwing a metal roof with larger-diameter fasteners is a genuine repair with years in it, and it is a fraction of the cost of replacement. We will tell you when that is the right call.
Exposure, and what open country does to a roof
Without the tree cover of Bella Vista or the older parts of Rogers, Gentry roofs get more sun and considerably more wind. The two effects pull in different directions and both matter.
More UV means shingles on south and west slopes age faster — the same roof frequently looks a decade older on one plane than another. More wind means shingles lift at rakes and ridges on exposed elevations, and lifted shingles rarely look damaged from the ground. After a straight-line wind event out here it is worth having someone actually get on the roof.
The upside of open country is gutters: with fewer overhanging limbs, they stay far cleaner than anywhere under Ozark tree cover, and gutter guards are usually not worth the money on a Gentry town lot.
Hail
Gentry sits in the western part of the same hail corridor that runs across Benton County. Storm cells moving in from Oklahoma frequently cross here first, which is worth knowing for a practical reason: a storm that hit Gentry an hour before it hit Bentonville is the same storm, and the claim documentation is the same exercise.
Permits
Work inside the city limits is permitted through the City of Gentry. A great deal of Gentry-addressed property sits outside the limits and falls under Benton County instead — more than in most towns we work, because of how much of the area is rural. We confirm which applies to your address.
What we do in Gentry
- Roof replacement and repair on houses, shops and outbuildings
- Metal roof repair, including re-screwing exposed-fastener panels
- Wind and hail damage inspection with insurance documentation
- Siding replacement in vinyl, LP SmartSide and fiber cement
- Seamless gutters and downspouts
- Soffit, fascia and trim repair
- Exterior and interior painting
- General contracting on additions and rebuilds
Free estimates. Call (479) 799-2022.
