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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ridge vent — exhaust at the peak, matched to intake at the eaves so the attic can breathe.
Architectural shingles — nailed to the shingle maker's printed pattern, which can ask for more nails than the code minimum.
Starter strip — the sealed first course at the eaves, so wind cannot get under the edge.
Synthetic underlayment — the second line of defense if water ever gets past a shingle.
Ice-and-water shield — self-sealing membrane at the eaves and valleys, where ice dams back water up.
Drip edge — metal along the edge that steers water into the gutter, not behind it.
Roof deck — walked board by board; soft or rotten sheathing is replaced first.
Rafters — the frame the whole roof sits on.
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.
Storm damage to a roof is often invisible from the ground.
How a claim actually goes
We inspect first. If there is no real damage we tell you so, and you have not filed a claim you did not need.
You call it in. It stays your claim and your policy. We never file on your behalf.
We document the damage. Every slope photographed and a written, line-item scope, yours to send your insurer.
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.
We build it. You pay your deductible. Nothing else, and no one here is going to offer to eat it for you.
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
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
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
The install
One dedicated crew start to finish. Landscaping tarped, site tidied daily, magnet run over the yard before we pull out.
4
After we leave
Warranty registered with the manufacturer, finished photos sent, and a phone number that still gets answered in year six.
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.
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.