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A roof emergency at a single family home is one household having a bad night. A roof emergency at a 40-unit community is water crossing unit lines, residents calling you at eleven at night, a board that needs to approve spending it never budgeted for, and a liability question that starts the moment the first ceiling stains. The work of stopping the water is the same. Everything around it is not. Here is how these actually go, and what you can do now to make the next one easie

A leak in January means your roof could not survive four straight months of rain. A leak in September means it could not survive the easy part, and the hard part has not started. The good news is that finding it now is the best case. Everything below can be fixed properly in dry conditions on a normal schedule, which stops being true in about six weeks. Here is exactly what to do, in order, but first is it an emergency?? Call us at 503-936-2476 or fill out this EMERGENCY FORM

Oregon gives you a narrow window every year. Late August through early October is dry, mild, and workable. By the first week of November, we are usually back into steady rain that does not really let up until spring. Everything you postpone during that window gets ten times harder, more expensive, and more disruptive once the weather turns. A minor flashing gap in September is a caulk-and-go repair. That same gap in January is a soaked ceiling, a wet insulation tear-out, and

Keeping your business or buildings safe & Flowing Portland weather is hard on commercial roofs. Forty-three inches of annual rainfall, sustained humidity, freeze-thaw cycles, moss growth, and the occasional wind event combine to age commercial roofing systems faster than most building owners expect. If you own or manage a commercial property in the Portland Metro, your roof is either protecting your investment or quietly costing you money. There is no in-between. Flow Roofing