"Born and raised in Mobile, with 25 years in construction on this coast. One owner, one crew, two counties — and the roof gets built the way it ought to be built."
Terry James is the owner of Silver Construction and a born-and-raised native of Mobile, Alabama. He has spent 25 years in construction along this stretch of the Gulf Coast — not managing it from an office, but on the roofs and in the driveways, doing the work. That is a distinction that matters more here than it does most places.
Twenty-five years in Mobile means Terry James has been through the storms. He has seen which roofs came apart and which ones held, and he has been on enough tear-offs to know that the difference is almost never the shingle you can see from the street. It is the decking underneath, how it was fastened, and whether anybody bothered to seal it. Those are the parts of a roof that get skipped when a contractor is bidding to be cheapest, and they are the parts Terry James will not skip.
Silver Construction handles roofing built to the FORTIFIED™ standard for coastal wind, full roof replacement and repair, storm and insurance damage work, and concrete — driveways, slabs, patios, sidewalks and aprons. Being able to do the roof and the driveway with the same crew is a genuine advantage for homeowners on larger properties, and it is not something most roofing companies can offer.
Being a Mobile native also shapes how the business runs. Terry James works Mobile and Baldwin Counties and nothing beyond them. These are his neighbors, this is where he lives, and a contractor who is still going to be here in five years behaves differently than one who followed a hurricane into town. When you hire Silver Construction, Terry James is the man who quotes the job and the man who is on it.
Every roof Silver Construction builds gets built on one assumption: sooner or later, a serious storm is going to test it. That is not pessimism on the Alabama coast, it is arithmetic. So the deck gets inspected properly, the fasteners go in properly, and the edges get locked down properly — whether or not anyone will ever see that work again.
The same thinking runs through the concrete. A driveway is mostly the base you cannot see, and a slab poured on bad prep will crack no matter how clean the finish looks on day one. We would rather do the unglamorous part right than come back in three years.
"Do the part nobody sees the same way you do the part everybody sees." — Terry James, Silver Construction
Silver Construction is a local, owner-operated business working two counties, built on 25 years of Gulf Coast construction experience.
From the first phone call to the final cleanup, here is what makes Silver Construction different.
Terry James is a Mobile native who lives and works here. Not a storm-chaser passing through.
Roofs constructed to the FORTIFIED™ standard, aimed at the way roofs actually fail in hurricanes.
No sales organization, no subcontracted crew of strangers. The owner quotes it and the owner works it.
Roof and driveway handled by one crew in one trip — which saves you a mobilization.
25 Years Experience • Alabama License #27001 • Fortified Roofing • Driveways & Concrete • Mobile & Baldwin Counties