Murphy Roofing and Construction · About the company
Since 2012, Derek Murphy's crew has hauled the trailer from Kennebeck Avenue to roofs across eastern South Dakota and western Minnesota.
★★★★★Since 2012·5.0 · 11 Google reviews·Free estimates
Fourteen years in
White, South Dakota is not a big place, and that is the point. In a town this size, and in every town within a tank of diesel, the roof you did last summer is your billboard. Derek Murphy has been building that billboard since 2012.
The work runs wider than most outfits this size: house re-shingles one week, a three-story apartment complex or a quonset full of machinery the next, snow routes when the state ices over. Different roofs, same habits. Show up, keep the owner informed, clean the site like it was never a job site.
Their Facebook page says it plainest: "If you are looking at getting a new roof. Call Murphy Roofing and Construction at (605)690-6115 for a FREE estimate." No slogan-writer touched that sentence. It is just how they talk, and the eleven five-star reviews suggest it is how they work.
On site
From the archive
These four frames come straight off the crew's own camera roll, before this site or any of those eleven reviews existed. A sign that went into a yard before the reputation followed it. A trailer running its lettering on a stop out past town. Two of the crew finishing a ridge line. And an early commercial roof, done for a golf clubhouse.
How the crew works
Owner on the phone
The number on the logo card is Derek's. Questions get answered by the person whose name is on the trailer.
Leave it cleaner
Cleanup is mentioned in four of their eleven reviews. That does not happen by accident, it happens by habit.
Weather-tested
Wind, hail, and hard winters are the local curriculum. The crew inspects after storms and clears snow until spring.
Any roof that pays honest work
Farmhouse, apartment block, storefront, pole barn. If it has rafters and weather over it, they will quote it.
Planted in White, South Dakota in 2012. Parked in front yards two states wide ever since.
The reputation
These are the themes pulled straight from Murphy Roofing and Construction's real, public Google profile: cleanup, wind damage repair, respectful staff, workmanship. No invented quotes, just what the eleven reviewers keep saying.
5.0 · 11 Google reviews
These four chips come straight from Google's own keyword tally on Murphy's profile, not handpicked quotes.
Cleanup
The most repeated word across their reviews. Yards raked, debris gone, nothing left in the grass for a mower or a bare foot to find.
Comes up in 0 of the 11 reviews
Wind damage repair
Storm work that got handled fast, including a wind-damage patch reviewers say was turned around in a single day.
Named in 0 of 11 write-ups
Respectful staff
A crew that treats the homeowner and the property like they would their own. Reviewers mention Derek keeping them informed while the job ran.
Called out in 0 of the 11 reviews
Workmanship
Straight courses, tight details, roofs that look right from the street and hold up when the wind tests them.
Shows up in 0 of 11 reviews
Every estimate starts the same way: Derek comes out, gets up top, and tells you what the roof actually needs. Free, and no pressure either direction.
Call or text
(605) 690-6115
On every job
Free estimates · Finance available