Roofing Contractor in Gardiner, ME

Owners of the older houses around the Common and the downtown blocks, plus families in the newer neighborhoods toward West Gardiner where the lots are generous and the problem largely disappears.

Wet cellars are a common opening line here, and often enough the answer starts at the roof rather than underground.

Drip edge at eaves and rakes so water leaves the deck cleanly, gutters sized for the roof area feeding them, downspouts positioned where they can actually discharge, and extensions carrying water away from the wall.

On a narrow lot the downspout position is a real design decision. Putting one where it dumps onto a neighboring property causes a different kind of problem entirely.

We work on roofs across Gardiner, from the downtown blocks and the streets around the Common and the Oakland historic area, and out through the residential neighborhoods toward Farmingdale, Randolph and Pittston.

Downtown work brings staging, parking and shared driveways into the planning, and the older streets often have mature trees that fill gutters every autumn.

Gardiner roofing runs best from late spring through October, and we would rather install a roof and its drainage together in settled weather than return for the second half in November.

If your cellar takes water every spring, the autumn before is the right time to sort the roof drainage, ahead of the melt rather than during it.

Where the water discharges matters more here because of lot size first. There is nowhere for water to go on a narrow downtown property, so it has to be directed deliberately.

Grade is the second. Many of these lots slope toward the house rather than away, which turns any uncontrolled discharge into a foundation problem.

Trees are the third. The mature street trees around the Common fill gutters quickly, and a blocked gutter in a freeze produces ice where you least want it.

Ask whether gutters and downspouts are included, and where the water will end up. A roof quote that stops at the drip edge has left the important half unanswered.

Then ask about your neighbor's property. Anybody who has not considered it is likely to create a dispute you will be dealing with afterward.

The drainage adds a modest line beside the roof itself, and extensions and proper positioning cost almost nothing beyond the thought.

Set against repeated cellar water or a foundation repair, this is the least expensive part of the whole conversation.