Every Roofing Service We Offer in Portland, ME
One team for every roofing job in Portland — from roof replacement to insurance claim help.
Portland ME Roof Pros handles residential and commercial roofing projects across Portland and southern Maine. From roof replacement to insurance claim help, every service below is handled by our own team and backed by our workmanship guarantee.
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Our Roofing Services in Portland, ME
Roof Replacement
A replacement here is two jobs printed on one estimate. There is the field, meaning tear-off, deck work, underlayment and covering, and there is the roof edge, where the drip edge lands on painted rake, fascia and soffit boards.
Roof Leak Repair
Most leaks we get called to in Portland announce themselves outside before they ever reach a ceiling. Paint blisters and peels on the underside of a soffit, or a rake board darkens and holds a fingernail.
Storm Damage Restoration
Storms that damage roofs in this city arrive as nor'easters: a long fetch of wind and rain over many hours rather than a violent twenty minutes. The damage pattern follows.
Hail Damage Roofing
This page mostly exists to talk you out of a claim. Maine sits near the bottom of the national tables for damaging hail, and on the roofs we look at in this county the honest answer to "is this hail?" is almost always no.
Wind Damage Roofing
Wind takes the edge of a roof first, and on a house built before the war the edge is the weakest thing on the building. Rake trim, drip edge and the starter course fail together, and once the first tab lifts the wind has something to hold.
Roof Inspections
An inspection here answers three questions, and the third one is the reason people call us rather than a general home inspector. How much life is left, what will it cost when it goes, and does the work you are contemplating cross into the painted trim.
Asphalt Shingle Roofs
Asphalt covers most roofs in Portland and it should. It is the cheapest square foot on the market, it handles this climate, and on a house whose real problem is the trim at the edge, spending the covering budget on something exotic is money in the wrong place.
Standing Seam Metal Roofing
Metal has real traction in Maine, for defensible reasons. A concealed-clip standing seam panel in Kynar will outlast three asphalt roofs, it sheds rather than absorbs, and it has no exposed fastener to back out over thirty winters.
Tile Roofing
We will service tile in Portland and we will almost never recommend installing it. That is not a taste judgment.
Flat & Low-Slope Roofing
The thing that sets the price of a low-slope roof in Portland is not its area. It is the length of wall it dies into.
Roof Coatings & Sealing
We sell fewer coatings than any roofer we know, and the reason is that most of what is sold as coating in Maine goes onto the wrong building. It belongs on sound commercial single-ply and on weathered metal.
Roof Ventilation
Every fleet of roofers in the country gives the same ventilation advice: add ridge vent, cut the soffits open for intake, done. On a Portland house built before the war, half that advice is wrong and the other half is often physically impossible.
Skylights
A skylight is a roofing job on the outside and a very different job on the inside, and in Portland's older houses it is the inside that decides whether we recommend one at all. The interior threshold in the federal renovation rule is six square feet per room, not twenty.
Gutters & Downspouts
Portland has two kinds of gutter and they are not the same product. There is the hung aluminum trough that most houses have now, and there is the original built-in trough formed into the cornice itself, which a surprising number of older buildings here still have under the paint.
Fascia, Soffit & Cornice
The other pages here lean on this one. On a Portland house the covering is a commodity and the trim at its edge is not.
Chimney Flashing
Chimney flashing is the single most common source of a leak we are called to in this city, and it is almost always because somebody solved it once with a tube of sealant. Sealant against masonry lasts about two winters and gets sold as forever.
Emergency Tarping
Tarping is a holding action and it should be sold as one. The job is to stop water entering tonight, protect what is inside, and leave the permanent repair to be scoped in daylight when the whole roof is visible and nobody is making decisions in the wind.
Commercial Roofing
Commercial work in Portland runs from Old Port mixed-use blocks and converted mill space to Riverside industrial buildings, medical offices and the apartment portfolios that make up much of this city's housing. Two legal lines cut through that list and both surprise owners.
Insurance Claim Help
We are roofers, not public adjusters, and Maine licenses those separately. What we do is give your carrier a scope so specific and so well documented that there is very little left to argue about, and tell you honestly when you do not have a claim worth filing.
What each of our services covers in Portland
Open any service to see exactly what is included before you call.
Roof Replacement
A replacement here is two jobs printed on one estimate. There is the field, meaning tear-off, deck work, underlayment and covering, and there is the roof edge, where the drip edge lands on painted rake, fascia and soffit boards. The field is the predictable half.
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Roof Leak Repair
Most leaks we get called to in Portland announce themselves outside before they ever reach a ceiling. Paint blisters and peels on the underside of a soffit, or a rake board darkens and holds a fingernail. That is water living in the assembly.
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Storm Damage Restoration
Storms that damage roofs in this city arrive as nor'easters: a long fetch of wind and rain over many hours rather than a violent twenty minutes. The damage pattern follows. Edges lift, trim splits, and water is driven uphill under coverings that would shed an ordinary rain.
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Hail Damage Roofing
This page mostly exists to talk you out of a claim. Maine sits near the bottom of the national tables for damaging hail, and on the roofs we look at in this county the honest answer to "is this hail?" is almost always no. What people bring us instead is granule loss, and it looks convincing.
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Wind Damage Roofing
Wind takes the edge of a roof first, and on a house built before the war the edge is the weakest thing on the building. Rake trim, drip edge and the starter course fail together, and once the first tab lifts the wind has something to hold. The reason is unglamorous.
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Roof Inspections
An inspection here answers three questions, and the third one is the reason people call us rather than a general home inspector. How much life is left, what will it cost when it goes, and does the work you are contemplating cross into the painted trim. We start on the ground with the assessor's record.
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Asphalt Shingle Roofs
Asphalt covers most roofs in Portland and it should. It is the cheapest square foot on the market, it handles this climate, and on a house whose real problem is the trim at the edge, spending the covering budget on something exotic is money in the wrong place. Our opinion on product is direct.
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Standing Seam Metal Roofing
Metal has real traction in Maine, for defensible reasons. A concealed-clip standing seam panel in Kynar will outlast three asphalt roofs, it sheds rather than absorbs, and it has no exposed fastener to back out over thirty winters. On the right house it is the last roof you buy.
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Tile Roofing
We will service tile in Portland and we will almost never recommend installing it. That is not a taste judgment. It is what happens when you put a covering that weighs eight to twelve hundred pounds per square onto framing that was sized for cedar shingles in 1890.
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Flat & Low-Slope Roofing
The thing that sets the price of a low-slope roof in Portland is not its area. It is the length of wall it dies into. A twelve-by-sixteen membrane with three sides against painted clapboard costs more to detail than a membrane twice its size sitting out in the open.
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Roof Coatings & Sealing
We sell fewer coatings than any roofer we know, and the reason is that most of what is sold as coating in Maine goes onto the wrong building. It belongs on sound commercial single-ply and on weathered metal. It does not belong on a residential shingle roof at all.
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Roof Ventilation
Every fleet of roofers in the country gives the same ventilation advice: add ridge vent, cut the soffits open for intake, done. On a Portland house built before the war, half that advice is wrong and the other half is often physically impossible. The intake half is the problem.
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Skylights
A skylight is a roofing job on the outside and a very different job on the inside, and in Portland's older houses it is the inside that decides whether we recommend one at all. The interior threshold in the federal renovation rule is six square feet per room, not twenty. Six square feet is one shaft opening.
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Gutters & Downspouts
Portland has two kinds of gutter and they are not the same product. There is the hung aluminum trough that most houses have now, and there is the original built-in trough formed into the cornice itself, which a surprising number of older buildings here still have under the paint. Built-in troughs cause the expensive misunderstanding.
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Fascia, Soffit & Cornice
The other pages here lean on this one. On a Portland house the covering is a commodity and the trim at its edge is not. Fascia, rake, soffit, frieze and the eave returns are the assembly that fails, and they are the assembly that carries the paint.
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Chimney Flashing
Chimney flashing is the single most common source of a leak we are called to in this city, and it is almost always because somebody solved it once with a tube of sealant. Sealant against masonry lasts about two winters and gets sold as forever. Done right, two independent metal systems sit there without ever being fixed to one another.
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Emergency Tarping
Tarping is a holding action and it should be sold as one. The job is to stop water entering tonight, protect what is inside, and leave the permanent repair to be scoped in daylight when the whole roof is visible and nobody is making decisions in the wind. A tarp that works has three properties.
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Commercial Roofing
Commercial work in Portland runs from Old Port mixed-use blocks and converted mill space to Riverside industrial buildings, medical offices and the apartment portfolios that make up much of this city's housing. Two legal lines cut through that list and both surprise owners. The first is the renovation rule.
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Insurance Claim Help
We are roofers, not public adjusters, and Maine licenses those separately. What we do is give your carrier a scope so specific and so well documented that there is very little left to argue about, and tell you honestly when you do not have a claim worth filing. That second half comes up more than people expect.
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What Portland property owners ask us
Which roofing services does Portland ME Roof Pros handle?
Everything listed on this page, residential and commercial, across Portland and southern Maine. Work is done by our own crews rather than handed to whoever is cheapest that week, which is the only way the workmanship warranty means anything.
Can I combine more than one service in a single job?
Yes, and it is usually cheaper. Bundling roofing work into one mobilization saves setup, disposal and travel, and it means one crew, one schedule and one written free estimate instead of three contractors blaming each other.
Do you give free estimates for every service?
Every one. We come out, measure, look at the real condition of the work area, and put an itemized free estimate in writing with materials and scope spelled out. No charge, no deposit, and no obligation to book.
What Portland Customers Say
Three roofers quoted our 1908 two-family and all three gave one lump number. These folks gave two, showed us the feet of rake board they wanted to take off and what that changed, and then told us the front cornice was fine and to leave it. We spent less than we had budgeted.
Called about a leak I was sure was the field. They found it at the chimney counterflashing, which somebody had solved with a caulk gun years ago. Cut it into the mortar joint properly, repointed, done in a day. They also told me the roof itself had six or seven years left and did not try to sell me one.
Standing seam over a complicated roof with a lot of trim. What sold me was that they were straight about the metal not getting us out of the fascia work, when the other bid implied it would. Snow retention over both doors was in the base price rather than added later.
We wanted skylights in a 1920s house. They walked the attic, said the ceiling work would be the expensive half, and put in two tubular units through the unfinished space instead for a third of the money. Same light. I appreciated being talked out of the bigger job.
Service Areas
Portland ME Roof Pros serves Portland, ME and surrounding communities including: