Gresham Roof Pros provides professional roofing services in Damascus, OR — Clackamas County, population 11,050. From roof replacement and roof leak repair to insurance claim help, our insured team serves Damascus homes and businesses.
Damascus property owners near the Oregon Route 212 corridor, the Southeast Sunnyside Road corridor count on Gresham Roof Pros for roofing contractor in Damascus. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Gresham to every job in Damascus, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (855) 774-8159 for a free roofing estimate in Damascus, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Roofing in Damascus, OR
On 13 June 2020 a tornado touched down in Damascus just south of Highway 212 between Southeast Tong Road and Southeast 232nd Drive. The National Weather Service survey found five trees snapped or uprooted, three vehicles crushed by a poplar, and, in its own words, no structural damage to homes, roofs, windows or outbuildings. That is the whole roofing storm history here.
We publish it because it is the single most useful thing an owner in Damascus can know. When a door-knocker tells you a tornado came through and your roof needs replacing, the record he is pointing at is a survey that specifically recorded no roof damage. Ask him for the date. Then ask him what the survey said.
Damascus voted itself out of existence in 2016 and is unincorporated Clackamas County again, which simplifies the paperwork rather than complicating it. The county handles structural, mechanical, plumbing and electrical review here, all four under one roof. Most of our incorporated towns split those between two agencies, so this is the least confusing address in the service area.
The housing tells one very clear story. Nearly 36 percent of homes in Damascus were built in the 1970s, the heaviest single-decade concentration of any town we cover, and 95 percent are single-family detached with no recorded units in buildings of three or more at all. Fifty-year-old roofs and outbuildings on large rural parcels, street after street.
That decade matters for what sits under the shingles. A 1970s deck in this county is often skip sheathing or thin plywood that has taken two roofs already, and Oregon's code will not let you go over a third. Section R907.3 requires a full strip where there are three or more applications, or where the existing roof is water soaked.
Long metal-roofed shops sit beside the houses on most of these parcels, and exposed-fastener panel is most of what we maintain out here. Gasketed screws on the windward run give up first, every time, and the correct answer is usually a re-torque and a gasket schedule rather than the coating somebody quoted you last spring.
Rain out here runs well above the airport figure everyone quotes. Estacada, on the same side of the county, normals at 58 inches a year against 36 at Portland International, and the Oregon Route 212 corridor sits between them. Scope drainage and fastener corrosion first here, and treat wind as the second argument rather than the first.
About Damascus, OR — and why local matters here
Damascus sits in Clackamas County with a population of roughly 11,050, close enough to Gresham that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include the Oregon Route 212 corridor, the Southeast Sunnyside Road corridor.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Damascus properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Clackamas County, and a roofing contractor who works the area weekly already knows what fails locally and what holds up. That is the difference between a bid and an accurate bid.
Getting a free estimate in Damascus
Call (855) 774-8159 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Damascus, usually within a couple of days. You get a written, itemized free estimate with materials and scope spelled out — no verbal ballpark, no pressure, and no charge whether you hire us or not.
We also serve Boring, OR and the rest of east Multnomah County. Everything starts at the Gresham Roof Pros homepage.
Roofing work we do in Damascus, OR
Gresham Roof Pros covers the same range of work in Damascus that we do in Gresham — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- 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.
- 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.
See the full list of Gresham services, or call (855) 774-8159.
Popular services in Damascus: Roof Replacement and Roof Leak Repair.
We also serve Boring, OR and east Multnomah County.