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Portland roofing · Cumberland, York & Sagadahoc counties

Portland Roofing, Built for Maine Winters.

Roof replacement, leak repair and storm damage from Kittery and the York County beaches to Casco Bay, Brunswick and the Sebago Lake towns. It starts with a free inspection that photographs every slope.

  • Free photographed inspection
  • Photo report for your insurer
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Free roof inspectionEvery slope photographed
Storm damagePhotos for your insurer
Written, line-item quotesMaterials named by brand
Cumberland, York & Sagadahoc64 towns & jurisdictions
Roofing services

Everything a roof needs, from one roofing company.

One trade: roofs. Replacement, repairs, storm damage, gutters and flat roofs across greater Portland and southern Maine, from the islands of Casco Bay to the lake towns and the York County coast.

Two workers nailing new cedar shingles onto a roof from a scaffold

Full roof replacement

Complete tear-off to the deck, rotten sheathing replaced, then architectural shingle or standing-seam metal put back the way the manufacturer specifies.

  • Ice-and-water at eaves and valleys
  • Synthetic underlayment, not felt
  • Ridge vent with matched intake
  • Deck inspected board by board
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Repairs & leak tracing

A stain on the ceiling usually starts somewhere else entirely. We trace it to the actual entry point instead of caulking the nearest suspicious thing.

  • Flashing, boots and pipe collars
  • Valley and chimney leaks
  • Wind-lifted and missing shingles
  • Emergency tarping
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Storm damage

We document the damage slope by slope and photograph every lifted, creased or missing shingle, so nothing the storm did gets missed. The report is yours to send your insurer, and the claim stays yours.

  • Free post-storm assessment
  • Every slope photographed
  • Photo report you can send your insurer
  • Written, line-item scope
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Gutters & drainage

Seamless aluminum formed on site, hung at the right pitch, with downspouts that actually move water away from the foundation.

  • 5" and 6" seamless
  • Hidden hangers, no spikes
  • Leaf protection options
  • Downspout re-routing
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Flat & commercial

TPO, EPDM and modified bitumen for storefronts, warehouses and the flat-over-porch sections residential crews get wrong.

  • TPO & EPDM single-ply
  • Modified bitumen
  • Drain and scupper work
  • Roof-top unit curbs flashed
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Inspections & maintenance

Buying a house, selling one, or just want to know how many seasons you have left. A full photographed report, no sales pressure attached.

  • Pre-purchase roof reports
  • Annual condition checks
  • Post-storm walkovers
  • Remaining-life estimates
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Why homeowners call us

We get on the roof before we give you a number.

We get on the roof, photograph every slope, and send you the report — whether you hire us or not. Then one line-itemed price, with the materials named by brand and product.

  • Every slope and penetration photographed
  • One written price, no surprise change orders
  • Permits pulled by us, never by you
  • Warranty registered with the manufacturer
What goes into a new roof

Eight layers, and each one has a job.

A roof is more than shingles. This is what goes on, from the frame up, when a roof is replaced properly — and what to look for, line by line, in any written quote you get.

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  1. Ridge vent — exhaust at the peak, matched to intake at the eaves so the attic can breathe.
  2. Architectural shingles — nailed to the shingle maker's printed pattern, which can ask for more nails than the code minimum.
  3. Starter strip — the sealed first course at the eaves, so wind cannot get under the edge.
  4. Synthetic underlayment — the second line of defense if water ever gets past a shingle.
  5. Ice-and-water shield — self-sealing membrane at the eaves and valleys, where ice dams back water up.
  6. Drip edge — metal along the edge that steers water into the gutter, not behind it.
  7. Roof deck — walked board by board; soft or rotten sheathing is replaced first.
  8. Rafters — the frame the whole roof sits on.
Icicles and an ice dam hanging from a snow-covered slate roof edge
Storm damage

Around here, the weather is the whole business.

The weather that matters most to a roof here is winter. Portland's normal snowfall is 68.7 inches a season, and its snowiest winter, 1970–71, brought 141.5 inches. The ice storm of January 1998 coated a large part of southern and central Maine in two inches of ice and left 80 percent of the state's people without power. The big coastal storms bring the wind: Portland logged a 69 mph gust on October 30, 2017, and on January 13, 2024 the Portland tide gauge set a new record, 14.57 feet.

Ice damsHeavy roof snow Ice stormsCoastal storms & high winds Fallen limbsEmergency tarping
Thick roll of snow curling off the roof edge of a dark shingled house
Storm damage to a roof is often invisible from the ground.

How a claim actually goes

  1. We inspect first. If there is no real damage we tell you so, and you have not filed a claim you did not need.
  2. You call it in. It stays your claim and your policy. We never file on your behalf.
  3. We document the damage. Every slope photographed and a written, line-item scope, yours to send your insurer.
  4. You compare the estimate. Our scope sits beside your insurer's estimate, so you can see for yourself whether anything is missing. You take them up with your insurer: in Maine, acting for you on a claim for pay takes an adjuster's license or a law license (24-A M.R.S. § 1411), and a roofer has neither.
  5. We build it. You pay your deductible. Nothing else, and no one here is going to offer to eat it for you.
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How it works

Simple, and mostly out of your way.

Four steps, and you know what is happening at each one. No surprise change orders, no crew that vanishes for a week with your deck open.

  1. 1

    The inspection

    We get on the roof, photograph every slope and penetration, and send you the whole set — yours to keep, hire us or not.

  2. 2

    The scope and the price

    One line-itemed proposal with the materials named by brand and product. One number, and it is the number.

  3. 3

    The install

    One dedicated crew start to finish. Landscaping tarped, site tidied daily, magnet run over the yard before we pull out.

  4. 4

    After we leave

    Warranty registered with the manufacturer, finished photos sent, and a phone number that still gets answered in year six.

Two workers using roofing shovels to strip worn asphalt shingles off a house roof
White ice-and-water shield membrane covering the roof of a building under construction
Close-up of new copper ridge flashing nailed over fresh cedar shingles
Worker on a gray standing-seam metal roof watching an electric seaming machine
Credentials

What the law asks of a roofer here.

Maine does not license roofers or home contractors, but it does require a written contract, with no more than one-third down, for any home repair job over $3,000. We carry what each jurisdiction we work in requires.

Service areas

Three counties, town by town.

Every town below has its own page: whether it enforces Maine's building code, who issues the roofing permit, what that office asks for and its own number. Maine has one statewide code, so what changes from town to town is the code office and its rules.

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Gray-green New England cape with a weathered cedar shingle roof and a red door
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Get a straight answer on your roof

Free inspection, a written scope, and photos you keep either way.

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Across the three counties on this site, NOAA's Storm Prediction Center logged 18 reports of hail 1 inch or larger from 2016 through 2025, on 10 days, 1 of them in 2025 alone. Each city and county page counts its own.

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