Gresham Roof Pros: Roof Replacement, Repair & Storm Damage
Expert residential and commercial roofing services. Free written inspections across Gresham, Troutdale, Fairview and east Multnomah County.
- CCB-licensed, bonded and insured Oregon roofing contractor
- Free written inspection with slope-by-slope photographs
- Emergency response after gorge wind and freezing-rain events
- Residential and commercial, from one pipe boot to a full membrane re-cover
Our Roofing Services in Gresham, OR
Roof Replacement
Replacing a roof in Gresham is a scheduling problem before it is a materials problem. The calendar decides how well the new roof survives its first winter, and almost nobody is told that when they collect their three bids.
Roof Leak Repair
Ask a Gresham homeowner when the ceiling stain appeared and the honest answer is rarely during ordinary rain. It turns up on the two or three nights each winter when the wind is roaring out of the gorge.
Storm Damage Roof Restoration
A gorge wind event does not look like a storm on the news. There is no rain, no thunder, often no cloud at all.
Hail Damage Roof Repair
Most people who reach this page end up being advised not to file. Gresham sits in a basin that produces very little damaging hail, and the honest answer tends to disappoint people who have been told otherwise by somebody knocking on doors.
Wind Damage Roof Repair
Wind damage here has a compass bearing. In most of the country the damaging wind can arrive from anywhere.
Roof Inspections
The useful roof inspection in Gresham happens in October, before the first hard east wind, and it is ordered by exposure rather than by convenience. An April inspection tells you what survived.
Asphalt Shingle Roofs
Asphalt shingle is what most of Gresham is roofed with and it is the right material for nearly every house here. The question worth arguing is not whether to use it.
Metal Roofing
Metal makes sense on some Gresham buildings and not on others, and the deciding factor is usually the eave and rake detail rather than the panel sitting between them. We steer owners away from metal more often than we quote it.
Tile Roofing
Tile is uncommon in Gresham and we will start by saying it is usually the wrong material for a house here. Where we do work on it, it is almost always concrete tile on a home that was framed to carry the weight.
Flat & Low-Slope Roofing
Low-slope work in Gresham is mostly commercial, mostly single-ply, and mostly decided by two questions. Where does the water go when a drain runs slow, and what happens when that water freezes where it sits.
Roof Coatings & Sealing
We turn down more coating work than we accept. A coating is a genuinely good product inside a narrow set of circumstances, and most of the roofs people ask us to coat in Gresham fall well outside it.
Roof Ventilation
Attic ventilation in Gresham has to survive a condition most ventilation was never drawn for: a steady, high-velocity wind arriving on one side of the house and staying there for hours. Most attics in this town are ventilated for a calm day.
Skylights
Skylights earn their keep in a place that spends most of its winter under cloud, and Gresham qualifies. The decisions worth arguing over are which slope they land on and how the head flashing is put together.
Gutters & Downspouts
The governing load on a Gresham gutter is not heavy rain. It is the weight of glaze ice after a freezing-rain night, and that is what pulls gutter runs off fascia across this side of the metro.
Fascia & Soffit
Fascia and soffit read as trim and act as structure. They carry the gutter, they feed the attic its intake air, and on this side of the metro they take the pressure of an east wind directly on their underside.
Chimney Flashing
No part of a roof generates more leak calls than a chimney, and the cause is nearly always identical. Somebody sealed a joint instead of building one.
Emergency Roof Tarping
The most useful thing we can tell you about emergency tarping in Gresham is that the middle of a gorge wind event is the wrong moment to attempt it. The second most useful thing is that a good tarp is built rather than thrown.
Commercial Roofing
Gresham's commercial roof stock is mostly low-slope: light industrial along the freight corridor, retail strips on the arterials, schools, and a good deal of tilt-up with mechanical equipment sitting on top of it. Almost none of it is shingle and a great deal of it is neglected.
Insurance Claim Help
We are roofers rather than public adjusters, and Oregon keeps those two roles separate. What we can do is document a roof properly and explain in plain language what the adjuster is actually deciding when they climb your ladder.
Gresham Roof Pros is a licensed, insured roofing contractor in Gresham, Oregon, handling roof replacement, leak repair, wind and storm damage, flat and low-slope membrane, metal panel, gutters, skylights and chimney flashing for homes and commercial buildings across east Multnomah County.
Most of what we install is architectural laminate asphalt shingle over cap-nailed synthetic underlayment, fastened six nails to the shingle inside the printed nail zone and rated under ASTM D7158. We also build standing seam and screw-down metal, mechanically attached TPO and EPDM on low-slope decks, continuous-run aluminum gutter, deck-mounted skylights and let-in chimney counterflashing. Low-slope decks get their drainage tested before any membrane is priced or ordered.
What shapes all of it is where Gresham sits. This is the east edge of the metro, at the mouth of the Columbia River Gorge, and the wind that damages roofs here arrives cold, dry and from one bearing in the middle of winter, sometimes with rain freezing on contact behind it. Everything we specify on an east elevation follows from that. That is the argument the rest of this site is built on.
What Gresham Customers Say
Lost the east end of our ridge in a January wind night. They photographed the whole thing with the direction marked before touching it, which the adjuster ended up leaning on. Repair, not a replacement, and they said so up front.
Called about hail after a door knocker told us we had it. They ran test squares on all four slopes, showed us the gutter faces were untouched, and said it was not hail. Then fixed the two boots that were actually leaking.
Three bids and theirs was the only one that wrote down the nail count and where starter strip was going. Waited until July to do the tear-off because they said a winter install would not seal. Roof went through the next east wind fine.
Screw-down metal on the shop was weeping at half the fasteners. They re-torqued and replaced the windward run rather than selling me a coating, and told me which year to expect the rest to need doing.
Why Gresham Chooses Gresham Roof Pros
- ✓Every inspection starts on the east elevation, because that is the side the gorge wind loads and the side most crews walk last.
- ✓The written scope names the fastening pattern - nail count, nail zone, starter strip at rakes as well as eaves - so you can hold us to it on site.
- ✓Cold-season installs get their rake and ridge courses hand-sealed instead of left to a sealant strip that will not bond until spring.
- ✓We will tell you in writing when a hail claim is not a hail claim, before you file it and put it on your loss history.
- ✓We do not coat asphalt shingles at all, and we will not apply any coating outside the short summer window when it can actually cure.
- ✓Storm photographs record the compass direction of the damage, because direction is what separates a wind claim from a wear denial.
About Gresham Roof Pros in Gresham, OR
Gresham Roof Pros works Gresham, Troutdale, Fairview, Wood Village, Happy Valley and the rest of east Multnomah County and northern Clackamas County. Residential and commercial, from a single pipe boot through full tear-off and replacement, plus the gutter, soffit, ventilation and flashing work that actually decides how long a roof lasts.
We build around one local fact. The wind that damages roofs on this side of the metro comes down the Columbia River Gorge from the east in the cold half of the year, and the weather service summary for Portland describes the same pattern: easterly winds during the cold dry spells, and freezing rain over the eastern metro when rain falls into that cold air. Every choice we make on an east elevation follows from it.
If the lowest bid on the block is your deciding factor, we are the wrong firm. We will not reach that number by dropping to four nails, skipping starter strip at the rakes, or leaving tired counterflashing under new shingles. Do not hire us to file a hail claim we do not believe in, or to coat an asphalt shingle roof, because we will refuse both in writing.
How It Works
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Free Inspection, East Elevation First
Every slope we can stand on safely gets walked, beginning on the side that faces the gorge, testing sealant bond by hand on the first courses, lifting ridge cap at the east end and checking fasteners for back-out. Then the penetrations, then the attic from underneath with a light.
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A Written Scope You Can Compare
You get quantities, materials by name, and the fastening pattern spelled out: nail count, nail zone, where starter strip runs, which flashing is being replaced rather than reused. Three bids are only comparable when all three say what they are actually doing.
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Installed to the Printed Instructions
Shingles go down the way their maker's application sheet says, because that document is what a material warranty is measured against. Deck gets photographed before it is covered, and cold-season work gets its rake and ridge courses hand-sealed rather than left to sunlight.
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Photographs, Warranty and a Follow-Up
You finish with before-and-after photographs by slope, the workmanship warranty in writing, and a note of anything we saw but did not do. We come back after the first hard east wind of the winter to look at what we built.
Commercial Roofing in Gresham and Across East Multnomah County
We maintain and replace low-slope roofs on light industrial buildings along the freight corridor, retail strips on the arterials, schools, medical offices and tilt-up warehouses with mechanical equipment sitting on top of them. The east wind reaches a rectangular building at its corners and windward perimeter first, so that is where our fastening rows tighten and where our inspections begin. Property managers get a roof file rather than a sales proposal.
- ✓Mechanically attached and fully adhered TPO, EPDM and two-ply modified bitumen systems
- ✓Tightened fastening rows through corner and perimeter uplift zones
- ✓Drain, sump and overflow scupper testing before any membrane is quoted
- ✓Tapered insulation to drain dead-flat areas rather than coating around them
- ✓Curb, condenser and duct penetration flashing checked with the equipment fasteners
- ✓Twice-yearly maintenance visits with a photographed written log per building
- ✓Roof files with area, assembly, age, remaining life and repair-versus-replace numbers
- ✓Night and weekend tear-offs with staged loading so tenants keep trading
Service Areas
Gresham Roof Pros serves Gresham, OR and surrounding communities including:
Recent Projects Across east Multnomah County
Frequently Asked Questions
Why does my roof only leak when the wind is out of the east?
Because a shingle roof sheds falling rain easily and horizontal rain much less well. An east wind drives water up under the butt edge, past the head lap and around flashing that was detailed for gravity, so the leak appears on gorge wind nights and vanishes in ordinary rain.
Is a permit required to reroof a Gresham house?
A tear-off and reroof is permitted work in Oregon, and your contractor should be the one pulling it and scheduling the inspection. Ask to see the permit number before the dumpster arrives. Anybody offering to skip it is telling you something useful about the rest of the job.
Should I be worried about ice dams here?
Not really, and we will talk you out of buying protection against them. Ice dams need sustained snow cover on a warm roof. Portland averages about four days a year with measurable snow and rarely more than a couple of inches. Our winter roof problem is glaze ice from freezing rain, which loads gutters rather than backing up under shingles.
When is the best time of year to replace a roof in Gresham?
May through September. Shingles seal themselves with a heat-activated adhesive strip that needs sun to bond, and until it bonds the shingle is held only by its nails. A roof finished in high summer is sealed in days. One finished in January may sit unbonded through the entire east wind season.
Does my roofer have to be licensed in Oregon?
Yes. Construction contractors must be registered with the Oregon Construction Contractors Board, and the endorsement they hold sets the surety bond and liability insurance they have to carry. The board publishes a public license search, so you can check any bidder in about a minute before you hand over a deposit.
The east wind took part of my ridge. Is that an insurance claim?
It might be, and it might be under your deductible. Wind damage from a single event is generally covered where wear is not, so the evidence that matters is direction, pattern and date. We photograph all three before touching anything, then tell you plainly whether the repair costs less than the deductible.