New Malarkey Highlander Roof Installed in College Grove

This College Grove home got a full roof replacement using Malarkey Highlander shingles in Natural Wood - and the finished result speaks for itself. It's a warm, earthy tone that works perfectly against the dark brick exterior and white trim. The kind of color choice that looks intentional, not just practical.

Here's what we were working with on day one - old shingles stripped down to bare decking across every plane of a complex, multi-pitch roof. A job like this has a lot of angles, valleys, and transitions to work through. Each one is a potential weak point if it's not done right. We make sure every inch of that deck is clean and properly prepped before anything else goes on top.

After the tear-off, we laid down a full layer of synthetic underlayment across the entire roof - that bright green you see is Malarkey's StormBreaker Plus, a self-adhering, high-performance underlayment designed to give the home a watertight barrier before a single shingle is nailed. It's the layer most homeowners never see, but it's doing a lot of the heavy lifting when storms roll through.

The Malarkey Highlander is a solid laminate shingle - Class 4 impact rating, which matters in Tennessee where hail and severe weather are a real thing. The Natural Wood color has that dimensional, wood-shake look without any of the maintenance headaches. It's a good product on a house like this, where the exterior details deserve something that can keep up aesthetically and structurally.

What we ended up with is a roof that fits this home - clean ridge lines, tight valleys, and a color profile that pulls the whole exterior together. A property this well-kept deserves a roof that's built to last, and that's exactly what this homeowner got.