Roofing & Roof Repair in Portland, Maine

What roofing in Portland involves

• Downtown and peninsula buildings from the 1800s and early 1900s — slate, standing seam, and flat or low-slope roofs over porches, ells and additions
• Dense multi-family housing: triple-deckers and two-family buildings where a roof leak affects more than one tenant
• Off-peninsula neighbourhoods of ranches, capes and split-levels built between the 1940s and 1980s, many still on their second or third roof
• Steep, tall rooflines that need staging rather than ladders, and tight lots where a dumpster has to go on the street
• Coastal wind off Casco Bay that lifts shingle edges and drives rain sideways into details that were fine inland

What goes wrong on Portland roofs

• Ice damming at the eaves on uninsulated or under-insulated attics — the most common winter call in the city
• Failed flashing at chimneys and where additions meet the original roofline, common on Portland's ells and bump-outs
• Old slate roofs with individual broken or slipped slates that can be repaired rather than replaced, if the decking is sound
• Flat and low-slope roofs on porches and dormers that pond water because the pitch was never enough to begin with
• Rotted fascia and rake boards caused by gutters that have overflowed through several winters

Services in Portland