Tigard Roof Pros: Roof Replacement, Repair & Inspections
Expert residential and commercial roofing services. A free written assessment of every slope, and a quote that stays good long enough to think it over.
Licensed with the Oregon Construction Contractors Board, bonded and insured·Written assessment with photographs of every slope, hired or not·Quotes hold their price so you are never asked to decide the same day·Tigard, Washington County and the west side of the Portland metro
Tigard Roof Pros handles roof replacement, roof leak repair and roof inspections across Tigard and Washington County, on asphalt shingle, standing seam metal, concrete tile and low-slope membrane. We work on single-story ranch roofs, two-story subdivision roofs, and the attached and cottage-cluster housing Tigard's residential code now allows on lots that used to hold one house.
Most of what we quote in this city is not urgent, and we would rather you knew that up front. A shingle roof here announces itself years ahead: granule sediment in the gutter trough, cupped tabs on the south-facing slope, a soft spot at a valley, staining on the sheathing under the ridge. That warning is time you can spend getting the number right.
Oregon is unusual in that the building code is uniform in every city, so the rules governing your re-roof read the same in Tigard as in Beaverton, Sherwood or Newberg. Replacing a roof covering sits on the state's own permit-exempt list. Tearing off to new sheathing does not. That one line explains most of the distance between one bid and the next one you collect.
Our Roofing Services in Tigard, OR
Roof Replacement
Replacement is the one roofing decision in this city that almost never has to be made this week. A shingle roof gives years of notice, and the money you save by using that notice is larger than any discount a salesman will offer you.
Roof Leak Repair
A leak in Tigard is usually a penetration problem, not a field problem. The shingles between the holes are rarely what failed.
Storm Damage Restoration
Storm damage is a real category here and a small one. Western Oregon gets wind events and it gets falling limbs, but it does not get the convective storm damage that drives this trade across most of the country.
Hail Damage Roofing
This page is here mainly to talk you out of something. Damaging hail is close to absent in western Oregon, and the most useful thing we can tell a Tigard homeowner is that a hail claim here is far more likely to be wrong than right.
Wind Damage Roofing
Wind is the one weather category that genuinely damages roofs on this side of the metro, and it arrives from the south. Winter frontal systems track up the Willamette Valley, and the hardest gusts here come immediately ahead of and behind those fronts.
Roof Inspections
Of every page on this site, this is the one that matters most. Because most re-roofs in Tigard are permit-exempt, no building inspector ever sees them, which means an inspection you arrange yourself is the only independent look your roof will ever get.
Asphalt Shingle Roofs
Asphalt shingle is what nearly every pitched roof in Tigard wears, and for most of these houses it remains the right answer. The decisions worth having an opinion about are not brand decisions.
Metal Roofing
Metal is a better fit in Tigard than on the kind of sprawling suburban roof it usually gets quoted for, and the reason is geometry rather than weather. Infill housing here produces small, simple, steeply pitched roof planes, and simple planes are precisely where standing seam earns its price.
Tile Roofing
Tile is uncommon in Tigard, and that is exactly why it needs a page of its own. There are enough concrete tile roofs on the west side, mostly on custom homes from the nineties and two-thousands, that owners regularly cannot find anybody competent who is willing to touch one.
Flat & Low-Slope Roofing
Low slope turns up in Tigard on rear additions, over garages, on carports, on mid-century sections of otherwise pitched houses, and on the one and two-story buildings along the main corridors. It is a different trade from shingle work, and it fails in different ways.
Roof Coatings & Sealing
We sell coatings, and this page mostly narrows where they belong. On a low-slope commercial membrane a coating is a legitimate, cost-effective life extension.
Roof Ventilation
Attic ventilation in Tigard is a moisture problem rather than a heat problem, and that changes the entire recommendation. In a cooling climate you ventilate to move heat out.
Skylights
Skylights are worth more in Tigard than in most of the country, and that is a genuinely local argument. This is a cloud-dominated climate with short winter days, and daylight in an interior room is a real change in how a house feels from November through March.
Gutters & Downspouts
Gutters move more water in this city than in almost any market where roofing is a large business. Roughly forty inches of rain a year, concentrated into the wet half of the calendar, means the system is loaded continuously rather than occasionally, and it fails accordingly.
Fascia & Soffit
Fascia and soffit are the place a roof problem quietly turns into a carpentry problem, and here it turns fast. Wet fir and hem-fir trim held against a saturated gutter through a winter does not last, and by the time you notice, the damage is older than you think.
Chimney Flashing
Chimney flashing is the most common leak source we find on Tigard houses after pipe boots, and it is nearly always the same failure. Somebody sealed the joint instead of flashing it.
Emergency Tarping
We do emergency tarping, and we get fewer calls for it here than most roofing companies in the country do. That is worth saying plainly, because if you found this page in a panic, the odds are decent that you have more time than you currently think you do.
Commercial Roofing
Commercial roofing in Tigard means one and two-story buildings rather than towers. Tilt-up and light industrial along the freeway corridors, strip retail on the highway, medical and office suites, and increasingly the shared low-slope roofs that mixed-use infill has added to residential blocks.
Insurance Claim Help
Most roofs in Tigard get replaced with the owner's money rather than an insurer's, which is the opposite of how this service works in hail country. Understanding why will save some readers from filing a claim they should not be filing at all.
Why Tigard Chooses Tigard Roof Pros
- ✓We tell you which side of Oregon's permit-exemption line your roof sits on, in writing, before we price it. That single distinction is where most of the spread between competing bids actually comes from.
- ✓A permit-exempt re-roof is never seen by a building inspector, so we photograph the bare deck the moment the tear-off is done and send it to you before any underlayment covers it up.
- ✓We quote access as its own line. Skinny-lot infill, shared flag drives and second dwellings have taken the boom-truck approach away from a lot of older lots here, and hand-carrying material is real labor that belongs on paper.
- ✓We do not chase weather events, and nobody from this company is going to knock on your door. Damaging hail is close to absent west of the Cascades, and any roofer who tells you otherwise after a thunderstorm is selling something.
- ✓If a repair is the right answer we write the repair number down and let you leave with it. Roughly half the roofs we look at in this city are not ready to be replaced.
- ✓We schedule replacements into the dry stretch from late June to September and hold the price until then, rather than pushing a February tear-off that costs you more and gets a worse result.
About Tigard Roof Pros in Tigard, OR
Tigard Roof Pros is a roofing crew that works the west side of the Portland metro, from the Tigard triangle out through Washington County and south into Yamhill. We hold an Oregon Construction Contractors Board license, carry the liability limit our endorsement requires, and put the CCB number on every written estimate so you can look it up before you talk to us again.
The work is mostly unglamorous and we prefer it that way: tear-offs and re-lays on asphalt shingle, deck repair where somebody's recover hid a soft spot for a decade, valley and sidewall flashing, ventilation that got buried when the attic was re-insulated, standing seam on the smaller and simpler roof planes that infill housing tends to produce, and single-ply membrane on flat sections and small commercial buildings.
Here is when you should not hire us. Where a roof still has years in it and the fault is a single flashing or one pipe boot, do not buy a replacement from anybody, ourselves included.
If a contractor is at your door after a storm insisting the damage is urgent, insurable and only visible today, that is a reason to slow down rather than speed up. And if you want the job done in January because a salesman said prices rise in spring, wait for the dry window instead.
Service Areas
Tigard Roof Pros serves Tigard, OR and surrounding communities including:
How It Works
A Written Assessment Before a Number
We walk every slope we can stand on safely, put a pole camera on the ones we cannot, and open the attic hatch. You get photographs of what we found and a plain description of the deck, the flashings and the ventilation, whether or not you hire us.
We Tell You Which Side of the Permit Line You Are On
Replacing a covering and tearing off to new sheathing are two different jobs under Oregon's exemption list, and they price differently. We say which one your roof needs and why, so you can read the other bids you collect against the same standard.
Scheduling Into the Dry Window
December averages more than seven inches of rain here and August averages well under one. If your roof can wait, we book it into summer, hold the price, and give you a written repair to carry the roof through the wet months in the meantime.
Tear-Off, Deck Inspection, Then a Walk
Nobody inspects a permit-exempt re-roof except us, so we photograph the bare deck before the underlayment goes down and send it to you the same day. At completion we walk the perimeter with you, magnet-sweep the lot and leave the tear-off photos with the invoice.
Recent Projects Across Washington County
What Tigard Customers Say
I called expecting to be told I needed a new roof, because the last two people who looked at it said so. Instead I got photographs of three bad boots and a valley, a repair quote under a thousand dollars, and a note saying to plan on replacement in about six years. They were right.
The other two bids were four thousand dollars apart and neither would explain why. These guys walked me through the difference between a recover and a tear-off with new sheathing and which one my house actually needed. Once I understood that, the bids made sense and I could pick on merit.
Our neighbor built a second unit right up the side yard, so there was no way to get a lift in. They quoted the hand-carry as its own line instead of hiding it or acting surprised on day two. Crew was quiet, the street stayed clean, and they sent deck photos before they covered anything.
Someone knocked after a hailstorm in June and told us we had a claim. Tigard Roof Pros came out, got on the roof, and said there was no impact damage anywhere and that filing would likely be denied. They charged nothing for the visit. That is the reason we used them a year later.
Commercial Roofing in Tigard and Across Washington County
Tigard's commercial roof area is not downtown high-rise; it is one and two-story tilt-up and light industrial along the Highway 217 and Interstate 5 corridors, strip retail on Pacific Highway, medical and office suites near Washington Square, and the shared-roof buildings that middle-housing and mixed-use infill have added to the residential fabric.
Most of it is low-slope membrane over metal or wood deck, much of it is decades into its second or third covering, and almost none of it needs to be replaced in the month a leak first shows up.
We survey, core where the assembly is unknown, and give building owners a repair path and a replacement year rather than a single take-it-now number.
- ✓60 and 80 mil TPO, fully adhered and mechanically attached
- ✓EPDM repair, seam re-work and full membrane replacement
- ✓Two-ply SBS modified bitumen, granulated cap sheet
- ✓Core cuts to identify existing assemblies before pricing
- ✓Roof drain, overflow and internal scupper repair
- ✓Curb, pitch pan and rooftop unit flashing rebuilds
- ✓Annual and semi-annual maintenance with photographic reports
- ✓Standing seam and structural metal on low-rise commercial
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a re-roof in Tigard need a building permit?
Often not. Oregon's statewide exemption list covers replacing a roof covering where the replacement weight stays within thirty percent of the roof's required live load design capacity and the covering is not required to be fire resistant. Applying roofing after all the old covering is stripped and all new sheathing is installed is on the permit-required side. We tell you which description fits your roof before we quote it, and the City of Tigard Building Division will confirm it.
Are the roofing rules different in Tigard than in Beaverton or Tualatin?
No, and that is genuinely unusual. Oregon's building code is uniform statewide and cities cannot enact different requirements on the same matters without state authorization. In most of the country the answer to a re-roof question changes at the city line. Here it does not, so there is no advantage to shopping jurisdictions and no reason to accept the claim that your city has some special rule a contractor alone knows about.
What month should I schedule a Tigard roof replacement for?
Late June through September. Self-adhered membranes and shingle sealant strips both want warm, dry deck temperatures, and a tear-off exposes your sheathing for at least part of a day. Winter work is possible and we do it when a roof genuinely cannot wait, but it costs more in tarping, staging and lost days. If you are reading this in February, you are early in the best possible way.
Could I have hail damage on my Tigard roof?
Almost certainly not. Hail large enough to bruise asphalt shingles is a rarity west of the Cascades; one-inch hail has been reported only a few dozen times in western Oregon since 1950, and the great majority of Oregon hail falls east of the crest. If someone knocks on your door after a thunderstorm and tells you your roof is hail damaged, get a second opinion before you sign anything or let them file on your behalf.
Can a second layer of shingles go over the first one?
Sometimes, and it is the cheaper path when it works. The code stops you at three applications, so a roof already carrying two layers has to come off. It also stops you where the existing covering is water-soaked or badly deteriorated, and where that covering happens to be slate, clay or cement tile.
The real limit is usually the deck: a recover hides the sheathing instead of letting anyone look at it, and on an older Tigard roof that is a trade we would think hard about.
Why do two roofers quote wildly different prices on the same house?
Three reasons, in order of size. One is scope, meaning recover against tear-off against tear-off with new sheathing. The second is access: if a boom truck cannot reach your eave because the side yard now holds a second dwelling, a fence line or a shared driveway, every bundle is carried and that is real labor. The third is what happens when rot turns up. Ask all three questions of every bid and the spread usually stops being mysterious.