Want the best cedar shake shingles in Portland? We got ‘em!
Better quality cedar shakes mean 80% lower maintenance over the life of your roof.
It’s taken us 25 years but we did it! We have worked hard enough and smart enough to get big enough to get the best mills in Canada to make us our own top quality cedar shakes! This is a huge blessing for all involved. A real win-win situation. The standards are nothing short of perfection. What this means to you is that we are skipping all of the middle men! Those middle men markups traditionally add up to $30 to $70 per square for a homeowner. With our new Canadian sourcing, we can bring absolute top-quality cedar shake shingles to Portland and supply them to our customers for just a little more than all the others offer lower grade crappy shakes. It’s a beautiful thing! Continue Reading…
Goodbye and Good Luck to Holli!
It was tough saying good-bye to Holli. She was with us for 2 ½ years and was a key team member at our central command position, fielding phone calls and formatting estimates. She was always professional and always helpful with everything we asked of her.
But, she’s young and she wants to grow and learn so much more than our company can possibly teach her. So, she’s off to new challenges and we wish her the best success. It was a pleasure to have you with us Holli!
-Patrick D. Morin,
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Roof Life Radio - July, 2008
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Seamless Gutters with a Lifetime Warranty: Believe it!
How does Roof Life of Oregon offer a lifetime warranty on gutters? Aren’t all rain gutters the same? What makes a gutter system by Roof Life so good?
The trick is to put together quality gutter components that complement each other and then work to together to outperform the competition.
We gently remove your old, worn out gutters to well-placed ground tarps. This eliminates any possible mess to your yard. We break down your old gutters and recycle them. We then start fresh with the best metal or aluminum we can find. We have it pre-painted or primed at the factory. We form it to your desired style on site, using cutting edge metal fabrication machines. Next, we precisely measure each cut to best fit your home. We back caulk every joint with an elastic gutter compound that’s watertight. This creates a perfect seamless gutter system.
We then install the gutters using a hidden clip system and a stainless steel type S 2-inch screw. It has a very aggressive bite and will hold the gutter firmly in place. Metal will expand and contract, pulling and pushing most gutter attachments past their ability to hold. Our design will allow the gutter to move and never stress our attachment. The net result is a lifetime perfect fit and performance for you to enjoy.
In addition to the performance of our hidden clip system, our gutters also offers to you an unmatched profile. A smooth long seamless profile to enhance the exterior of your home.
How about a downspout that resists clogging up? It is so frustrating to have downspouts that do not work. Your Roof Life gutter system features downspouts with fewer metal screws protruding into the spout. This results in a cleaner flow for the rain water and any debris washing down. It also makes them easier to clean.
Rain Gutters have come a long way since yours were installed. Give us a call at 503-925-0125 or fill out our form for a free gutter inspection and replacement estimate today!
Tired of Cleaning Gutters?
I hear it a lot from my customers: “I’m so sick and tired of cleaning out my rain gutters. I love the trees, but man, what a mess they make out of my gutters! My gutters are too high for me to reach and I need some help. Why do my downspouts always plug up?”
When it comes to gutter debris issues we hear it all, as a roof maintenance company, we are called on to do a lot of your dirty work. Cleaning your gutters is just one of them. We don’t mind, until you start complaining about how much you see us! That’s when I knew I had to go out and find a solution.
Good looking, long term gutter debris protection is the solution. I believe Rain Flow USA is currently the best gutter guard on the market. I like it because it’s affordable, out of sight from the ground and of course it works. The manufacturer warrantees it for 20 years and produces different shapes and sizes that will fit any type of gutter you may have, including round, copper, aluminum and seamless.
Call us today to have your gutters inspected. We’re at 503-925-0125.
In Roofing, Quality is Never an Accident
The lowest bidder put the roof on your home when it was built. That’s how they do it in production homes. The guy who can do it the fastest and the cheapest wins.
Unfortunately for home owners who need to replace their roof, a lot of replacement roofing contractors follow the same line of thought. Sell the re-roof for a cheap price and then cut every corner in the book. Fast is the standard rule for these guys, and most times, important details are overlooked for the sake of the almighty dollar. Quality is a choice. We don’t even bid on new construction, because we won’t compromise the amount of quality required as a trade-off in speed, skill and durability.
“Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.“
Good Roofing Materials - Lousy Installation
Here is another low bid re-roof project where the homeowner got the short end of the stick. Of course, they thought they were getting a smoking hot deal. This 1st picture is of a roof on the weather side dormer on the front of a home valued at over $900,000. It was recently completed in the Alameda District of Portland, Oregon. The weather side of a home in Portland means it faces southwest. All of our serious wet weather comes from that direction. This is not a wall to cut corners on!
We had reroofed a neighbor to this home and also got a chance to make a presentation on this project. We ended up not getting the chance to serve them. They did get a short educational presentation made by the one and only Tony St. Pierre. They chose to use another well-known roofing company in Portland, known for being one of the cheapest Roofing Contractors in town. The contractor decided that it would be too much effort to flash this front dormer sidewall.
Instead, they decided to shove the high-end shingles (Camelot by GAF/ELK…top quality) under the siding trim board without any flashings! (GAF/ELK, the manufacturer, would “pass a brick” if they saw this type and kind of installation.)
Roof Leak Clues: The Single Nail in the Key Way
In 1995, an unknown roofer placed a solitary nail right in the middle of this roof’s drain area. From the ground, it looks like just a bunch of roofing up there, and as long as it’s not leaking you feel pretty good about everything. But that nail was in a key way. That’s the roofing term for the space between the cedar shakes. It’s a very important part of a cedar roof…in getting water off your roof and into the drains. When it rains, your shake roof traffics all the water through these areas. So, when the idiot disguised as a roofer nailed that single nail into a key way 12 years ago, he set a very expensive series of events into motion. It’s almost unbelievable what this nail did.