Four men, three trucks, and a 1960s ranch.

"I came home from Iraq in 2009, did framing for two years for a guy named Pat Honeycutt, then started Hewitt Roofing out of my driveway because I wanted to be on a roof at sunrise and home for supper with my wife."

Me — Dale.

I'm Dale Hewitt. I'm forty-one. I grew up in Mars Hill, North Carolina, and I served with the 82nd Airborne for four years, two deployments — I came home in 2009, didn't talk about it much then and don't talk about it much now. What I'll say about it is that being on a steep-pitch roof at six in the morning with my own crew, in my own county, is the kind of work I came home to find.

I met Bethany at Mars Hill University when I was twenty-two and she was twenty. We got married in 2008 in a little church in Spring Creek. Caleb came along in 2014, Hannah in 2016, Lily in 2019. We live in a 1960s ranch on Reems Creek Road that I'll never sell.

I did framing for two years after I got out, for a builder out of Madison County named Pat Honeycutt. He's the one who handed me my first roofing job and told me to keep my mouth shut and watch the old hands until I understood what they were doing. By the end of 2008 I'd worked on about a hundred residential roofs, and I had my NC General Contractor license by spring of 2009. Hewitt Roofing started in our driveway with one used Ford F-150 and a stack of GAF shingles I bought on terms from Bost Lumber.

The first ten jobs were all neighbors — Reems Creek Road, Ox Creek, up into Spring Creek. The first year I grossed about $96,000 and slept on the couch most nights because my back was destroyed. I'm better at the work now and the back is fine. We do about 78 roofs a year these days. I've installed something like 1,100 since 2009.

Wesley — brother-in-law, first hire, 2009.

Wesley Pruitt is Bethany's older brother. He logged in Madison County for eight years before he came on with me in May of 2009 — he says he switched because his knees were going and roofing was kinder on the knees, which is a thing only a logger would say. Wesley knows every back road in Madison County and every cousin of every customer.

He runs the second crew when I'm meeting with a homeowner. He's the one I send up first when the roof is steeper than 9/12 because he's lighter on his feet than I am at this point.

Coy — journeyman, 2014.

Coy Sumner grew up in Marshall. He started with us at twenty-two — his uncle was one of my first ten customers — and just finished his GAF certification last year. Coy is the quickest hands on the crew and he runs the nail guns better than anyone I've worked with.

Devon — apprentice, 2018.

Devon Lattimore is twenty-six. He came on at nineteen, right out of A-B Tech's construction program. He'll be a journeyman by next summer and he'll be the third guy on the crew who can run a tear-off without me standing over him. Devon is the one who notices the things — the soft spot in the decking I missed, the flashing that's not quite right, the place a roof is going to leak in three years if we don't catch it now.

Bethany — Sunday afternoons on the books.

Bethany teaches fourth grade at Weaverville Elementary. On Sunday afternoons after church she sits at the kitchen table with her laptop and the week's invoices, and that's how Hewitt Roofing has handled its books since 2009.

If you call the number on this site between seven in the morning and five in the afternoon Monday through Friday, you'll usually get me. If I'm on a roof you'll get my voicemail and you'll hear back inside an hour. If you call on a Sunday between two and four, you might get Bethany, and she'll write down everything you need and I'll call you back Monday at 7am.

"I've installed about 1,100 roofs in Buncombe and Madison counties since 2009. The ones I did in the first year are still up there. So am I."

What we use.

We install three asphalt-shingle product lines. GAF Timberline HDZ is the default — 30-year architectural, the workhorse, the one we have on our own house. CertainTeed Landmark Pro is the upgrade for customers who want a slightly heavier shingle and the StreakFighter algae warranty. Owens Corning Duration Storm is what we install on homes that have already taken hail damage or sit in an exposed ridge — it's impact-resistant (Class 4) and it usually qualifies for a homeowners-insurance discount.

I install those three because they're the three best asphalt shingles you can buy in 2026, and because GAF's, CertainTeed's, and Owens Corning's warranty paperwork doesn't fight me when I file on behalf of a customer five years later. We also use ice-and-water shield in the valleys and at the eaves, GAF FeltBuster synthetic underlayment, and Boral Stone-Coated steel ridge cap where the design calls for it. That's the entire materials list. We don't carry anything else.