About Portland ME Roof Pros: Licensed Roofing Pros in ME
Portland ME Roof Pros works Portland, South Portland, Westbrook, Scarborough, Falmouth and Cape Elizabeth, out through Gorham and Windham to Bridgton, and south to Saco and Arundel. Residential replacement and repair, standing seam metal, low-slope membrane, ventilation, gutters, and the fascia, soffit and cornice work at the roof edge that decides what a job in this city actually costs.
The reason we organize the business around that edge is arithmetic rather than ideology. The American Community Survey puts roughly 47 percent of Portland's housing at 1939 or earlier, against about 24 percent across Cumberland County as a whole. On buildings that old the trim carries pre-1978 paint, and both the federal renovation rule and Maine's own statutory duty to prevent releasing lead change what the job is the moment enough of it is disturbed.
Some jobs are not ours to take. A small patch on a roof with four good years left is a two-hundred-dollar handyman call and we will tell you so. A historic slate or copper restoration belongs to a specialist trade and we will give you a name rather than pretend.
And if your paint film is continuous and the wood behind it rings solid, the right spend on your cornice this year is nothing at all, which we will write on the estimate before we leave.
If you have a roofing project in Portland, the fastest way to get a real number is a free on-site estimate. See every Portland service we handle, check whether we cover South Portland, ME and the rest of southern Maine, or go back to the Portland ME Roof Pros homepage to start. You can also reach us directly on (844) 511-2320.
Credentials
- License: Maine issues no state roofing or general contractor license. What actually governs residential work here is Title 10, chapter 219-A, the Home Construction Contracts Act, which requires a signed written contract above $3,000, caps the deposit at one third of the price, and fixes the warranty wording. We work to it on every house and we say plainly that no license number exists to show you.
- Insurance: General liability and workers' compensation in force; ask and the carrier emails your certificate straight to you, which is a different thing from a photocopy handed over on a clipboard
- Association: EPA Lead-Safe Certified firm under the federal renovation rule, which EPA administers directly in Maine, with renovator training taken through a Maine DEP-listed provider
- Warranty: a written workmanship warranty on top of the statutory warranty that section 1487 obliges us to print inside your contract
How Portland ME Roof Pros works
How a job with Portland ME Roof Pros runs, start to finish
Site visit first, always. We measure, look at the real condition of the work area, and ask what you are actually trying to solve — then you get an itemized free estimate in writing with materials, scope and a realistic date on it.
Once the work starts, the same crew stays on the job until it is done. We protect the surrounding area, clean up daily, and tell you the moment something under the surface changes the plan, because the alternative is a surprise invoice and nobody wants that conversation. a written workmanship warranty on top of the statutory warranty that section 1487 obliges us to print inside your contract backs the finished work.
What we will not do
We do not quote a roofing job over the phone, take deposits before a written scope exists, or bid work we are not set up to do properly. If your project needs a different trade, we say so and point you at someone who does it well. Losing a job is cheaper than doing one badly in Portland.
Where Portland ME Roof Pros works and who we work with
Portland, ME first, then the surrounding communities of southern Maine: South Portland, Westbrook, Scarborough, Gorham, Windham, Falmouth, Cape Elizabeth, Yarmouth and more. Each of those has its own page with local detail rather than a copy of this one.
Work splits roughly between homeowners and commercial property — offices, retail, restaurants, apartment complexes and HOA boards across southern Maine. Start with the Portland services, the Portland ME Roof Pros homepage, or just call (844) 511-2320.
Why Portland Chooses Portland ME Roof Pros
- ✓Every estimate carries two numbers, the covering and the painted roof edge, because in this city they are governed by different rules and only one of them behaves predictably
- ✓The report opens with your build year pulled from the City of Portland assessor's record, not guessed from the sidewalk by somebody looking at your clapboards
- ✓We are not lead inspectors and never pose as them; Maine law reserves identifying a hazard to a licensed inspector or risk assessor, and our reports say so in those words
- ✓Sound paint over sound wood gets left alone, and we will hand you a written estimate stating that the correct spend on your cornice this year is nothing
- ✓Intake ventilation goes in at the eave beneath the starter course, so nobody cuts sixty feet of slot into your painted soffit to satisfy a net-free-area calculation
- ✓We never ask for more than a third of the price up front, because that is the ceiling Maine's statute sets and we do not request exceptions to it
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: