Hargrove Roofing acquires Method Exteriors, expanding into the New Orleans market.

Hargrove Roofing has acquired Method Exteriors, a New Orleans-based residential and commercial roofing contractor, in a move that establishes the company's first branch in Southeast Louisiana and strengthens its position as a leading provider of roofing services across the Gulf South.

The deal brings together two contractors known for craftsmanship and customer-focused service. Method Exteriors founder Ryan Adler will stay on as president of the New Orleans branch, providing local continuity for the customers, projects, and relationships the business has built in the region.

Why New Orleans.

For Hargrove, the New Orleans expansion is personal as much as strategic. CEO Billy Hargrove called the city another kind of home for himself and the company, recalling the years he spent living off St. Charles in Uptown and cooking at Commander's Palace after college. The market itself is a natural fit for a storm-tested roofing operator: few metros in the country carry the hurricane and severe-weather exposure of Southeast Louisiana, and that exposure drives sustained demand for both insurance-driven repair work and new installation.

Adler framed the combination as a values match. Method Exteriors, he said, was built on relationships, high-caliber workmanship, and serving the communities of Southeast Louisiana the right way — and pairing that with Hargrove's reach creates an opportunity to extend across the region with a team that already understands its people and projects. His longer-term optimism extended to the whole platform: the alignment in values, vision, and long-term approach, he noted, made the partnership an easy decision.

A multi-state platform in the trades.

Founded in Shreveport in 2017 by siblings Billy Hargrove and Mae Hargrove O'Brien, Hargrove Roofing has grown from a single location into one of the larger independent roofing platforms in the South. The company now operates more than 17 branches across five states — Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Tennessee — spanning residential and commercial roofing, new-construction roofing, repair, and storm-damage and insurance-claim work. Its footprint includes Shreveport, Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Natchitoches, West Monroe, and now New Orleans in Louisiana; Austin, Houston, DFW, San Antonio, Tyler, and Texarkana in Texas; plus Tupelo, Mississippi; Little Rock and Northwest Arkansas; and Nashville, Tennessee. The company was recently recognized as one of the top 50 roofing contractors in the nation, ranked 49th.

That scale is the context that makes a transaction like Method Exteriors notable for the broader trades. Roofing has become one of the most active consolidation stories in the residential and commercial service sector, and acquirers increasingly fall into two camps: private-equity-backed platforms assembling regional density, and operator-led companies like Hargrove growing organically and through tuck-ins into adjacent markets. The New Orleans deal is a clean example of the latter — an established multi-state operator entering a new metro by acquiring a respected local business and retaining its leadership rather than absorbing and rebranding it.

What it signals.

For owners of independent roofing businesses across the Gulf South, the Hargrove–Method Exteriors combination is another data point in a steadily consolidating market. Well-run local contractors with strong reputations and durable customer relationships remain attractive entry points for larger operators looking to expand into new geographies — and the willingness to keep founders in leadership roles post-close continues to be a defining feature of how the better strategic acquirers in the trades approach these deals.