Manchester Premium Roofing: Roof Replacement, Repair & Storm Damage
Expert residential and commercial roofing services. Paid written inspections, and a scope you approve before anything opens.
- Building permit pulled on every job in a town that issues one
- Written scope and the adopted code edition on your contract
- Paid inspections, and the written report is yours to keep
- Liability and workers' comp certificates sent by the carrier
Our Roofing Services in Manchester, NH
Roof Replacement
A replacement here is a paperwork problem before it is a carpentry problem. New Hampshire licenses no roofer and many towns near us never inspect the work, so what you signed is the only record of what was promised.
Roof Leak Repair
Most Manchester leaks are not holes in the field. They are a joint where the roof meets something else, and on this housing stock that something else is usually brick, an addition built at a different date, or a valley where two eras of roof were married together.
Storm Damage Restoration
After a storm the pressure to sign something is the real hazard. Manchester gets a wave of door knocks within a day of any serious wind, and the contracts that get signed on a doorstep are written to be hard to leave.
Hail Damage Roofing
Hail claims go wrong here for a specific reason: most of what gets pointed at on a Manchester roof is not hail. It is foot traffic, blistering, mechanical damage from a ladder, or the ordinary granule loss of a covering that has done its twenty years.
Wind Damage Roofing
Wind takes a Manchester roof apart at its edges. The rake, the eave, the ridge and the first three courses above a gutter are where uplift concentrates, and a roof with a sound middle can lose its perimeter in one night.
Roof Inspections
Our inspections are paid, the fee is not credited toward work, and the written report is yours. That arrangement exists so that our finding is allowed to be that your roof is fine, which a free inspection can never honestly be.
Asphalt Shingle Roofs
For most Manchester houses asphalt shingle remains the sensible covering, and the decisions worth arguing over have nothing to do with brand. They concern the standard a shingle is tested to, the way it is nailed down, and what its warranty genuinely promises.
Metal Roofing
Metal is a genuinely good roof on the right Manchester house and a poor purchase on the wrong one, and the deciding factor is usually the building rather than the budget. Long uninterrupted slopes suit it.
Tile Roofing
Expect this page to talk you out of buying. Tile is an excellent covering where it belongs, and southern New Hampshire does not belong on that list.
Flat & Low-Slope Roofing
Almost every low-slope roof we touch in Manchester is attached to a steep-slope one. Rear ells, porch roofs, dormer tops and the flat deck over a kitchen addition are where these houses leak, and they are usually the part a replacement quote treats as an afterthought.
Roof Coatings & Sealing
We will not coat an asphalt shingle roof, and on most of the inquiries we get for this service our recommendation is to spend nothing at all. That is an odd thing for a page to say, so here is the reasoning rather than just the refusal.
Roof Ventilation
Ventilation is the part of a roof that gets sold by feeling and should be sold by arithmetic. There is a number in the code for it, it is easy to calculate, and almost nobody puts it on a quotation.
Skylights
We remove more skylights than we install, and on an older Manchester house that is usually right. A skylight is a hole in the one surface of your building whose entire job is not having holes in it, and its service life is far shorter than the roof around it.
Fascia & Soffit
Fascia and soffit work here is mostly carpentry on old growth timber, and the standard offer to wrap it all in aluminum coil is usually wrong. The wood on these houses is denser and better than what would replace it, and it is generally sound apart from its ends.
Chimney Flashing
The chimney produces more leaks in Manchester than any other part of a roof, because it is the one place a moving timber roof is tied to rigid old masonry. Get that junction wrong and the quality of everything else stops mattering.
Commercial Roofing
Commercial work in Manchester splits into two populations that need different thinking. There is nineteenth-century brick, much of it along the river and converted to offices and apartments, and there is late-twentieth-century single-story building along the highway corridors.
Insurance Claim Help
We document, we scope, and we meet the adjuster on site. Negotiating the claim itself is not ours to do, and a roofer volunteering to run it for you is offering something that ought to worry you rather than reassure you.
Manchester Premium Roofing installs and repairs shingle roofs, standing seam metal and low-slope membrane systems across Manchester and the towns around it, along with the flashing, ventilation and chimney work that decide whether any of it lasts. Most of what we do is tear-off and replacement on houses that have already been re-roofed once or twice.
New Hampshire licenses no roofers, and the permit answer is the opposite of what people assume. Every one of the towns we serve HAS a building department. What varies is that six of them - including the largest and best-staffed - publish an explicit written exemption for re-roofing, while several small rural towns charge a fee and inspect.
The state building code still binds your roof, and the statute puts meeting it on your contractor, so the written scope is the only thing holding the job to a standard.
So we work the other way round from most companies. The condition report comes first and you pay for it, the scope names materials by standard and fastening by pattern, and the code edition is printed on the contract. You approve all of it before a single shingle moves. If the honest answer is a repair, or nothing at all, that goes in writing too.
What Manchester Customers Say
Three bids and theirs was the only one that named the shingle by standard instead of by brand, listed the nail pattern, and gave me a per-sheet price for decking before anyone was on the roof. Nothing changed on the final invoice.
Paid for the inspection expecting to be told I needed a roof. Got a report saying the field had about six years left and two flashings needed attention. They did the flashings and left. I have the file if I need it later.
Our chimney had leaked through two previous repairs. They explained why grinding a channel into the old mortar had been the wrong move both times, set the flashing differently, and it has been dry through two winters.
I called about a coating and was told plainly why it was the wrong purchase, including what its warranty would and would not have covered. I spent less than half what I had budgeted, on the flashing that turned out to be the actual fault.
Why Manchester Chooses Manchester Premium Roofing
- ✓We tell you plainly that New Hampshire issues no roofing license, then show you the three things about a contractor you actually can verify here.
- ✓The warranty is written before the sale, not handed over at the end, because the statute reads that document to decide whether your complaint counts as a defect.
- ✓Our inspections are paid and the written report belongs to you, so our finding is allowed to be that your roof needs nothing this year.
- ✓Where a roof meets old brick we set flashing into a raked joint and repoint in soft lime mortar, and we will not run a grinder through a wall that cannot take one.
- ✓We say which towns near Manchester will actually inspect this work and which will not, so you know whether anyone but us is checking.
- ✓We refuse coatings on steep-slope shingle roofs and we explain the warranty arithmetic that makes them a bad trade rather than just calling them a gimmick.
About Manchester Premium Roofing in Manchester, NH
We are a Manchester roofing company working the city and the towns around it, mostly on houses built long before anyone here thought to inspect a roof. The work is ordinary enough: tear-offs, leak diagnosis, flashing, ventilation, low-slope membrane on rear ells and porches. What we do differently is put all of it on paper first.
That habit comes from where we work. New Hampshire licenses nobody for this trade, the towns around us split roughly evenly between requiring a re-roof permit, exempting one outright and publishing nothing at all, and the statute that governs a dispute reads the contractor's own written warranty first.
Massachusetts is minutes from our southern towns, not an hour, and it registers residential contractors with a guaranty fund behind them - so which side of that line you are on changes what backstop you have.
So we will say plainly when we are the wrong call. Where a roof still holds five sound years, we would rather sell the paid inspection and a date to look again than a replacement nobody needed. If your leak is a chimney problem, you want a mason before a roofer. And if you are shopping purely on price, someone will beat us, because a written scope costs money to honor.
How It Works
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A Paid Inspection With a Written Report
We charge for the inspection and do not credit it against the work, which buys us the freedom to tell you your roof is fine. You get the photographs and the written condition of every slope, the flashings and the attic, and the report is yours to keep or to hand to another contractor.
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A Scope You Read Before You Sign
The proposal names the shingle by ASTM standard rather than by brand, the fastener length and pattern, the flashing metal and gauge, and what happens if the deck underneath is worse than it looks. Unit rates for the unknowns are agreed in advance, because on a house from the 1910s there are always unknowns.
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Permit Pulled, Code Edition Named
We pull the permit where the town issues one and write the adopted edition of the state building code onto the contract. In the surrounding towns that varies more than anyone expects - six of them exempt re-roofing outright, several small ones charge a fee and inspect, and twelve publish nothing either way - so we tell you which situation your address is in rather than letting you assume an inspector is coming or that none is.
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Documented Close-Out
Dated photographs of the bare deck, the underlayment, the fastening and each finished slope, plus the warranty with its exclusions on it. Keep the file. If you ever need it, the statute expects you to describe a problem in detail and hand over the evidence you already hold.
Commercial Roofing in Manchester and Across Southern New Hampshire
Manchester's commercial stock runs from converted brick mill space along the river to strip retail and single-story office on the Route 3 and Interstate 93 corridors, and the two need different things. Brick buildings put the roof against masonry on every side, so the money is in terminations rather than in the field.
Newer buildings are mostly membrane over deck and fail at drains, curbs and edge metal. We survey both the same way, price them line by line, and say when a section can wait.
- ✓Roof surveys with core samples and a drawn plan of every penetration
- ✓Fully adhered and mechanically attached single-ply membrane systems
- ✓Cold-applied and self-adhered modified bitumen where flame is not allowed
- ✓Base flashing and coping details where a roof dies into old brick
- ✓Drain, scupper and overflow work sized to the area actually draining
- ✓Tapered insulation layouts that put slope where the deck has none
- ✓Planned maintenance visits with a written condition record each time
- ✓Work staged around occupied tenancies and posted business hours
Service Areas
Manchester Premium Roofing serves Manchester, NH and surrounding communities including:
Recent Projects Across southern New Hampshire
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Frequently Asked Questions
Does a roofer need a license in New Hampshire?
No. New Hampshire has no roofing contractor license at any level, and the state's licensing office runs no board for the trade. Anyone calling himself a state-licensed New Hampshire roofer is claiming a credential the state never created. Three things can be checked instead: insurance confirmed directly by the carrier, the permit history recorded against your address, and the exact wording of the warranty on offer.
Is a permit required to re-roof a Manchester house?
In the hub city, yes - it runs its own building department and a re-roof is permitted work, so we pull it. Across the other towns the pattern is the reverse of what people expect. Every one of them has a building department; none lacks the machinery.
SIX PUBLISH AN OUTRIGHT EXEMPTION for re-roofing, and they are the biggest and best-staffed - one says in as many words that no permit is required if you are only replacing roof shingles, another lists replacing residential roof shingles first under NO PERMIT NEEDED, and one requires a permit for windows while expressly exempting roof and siding.
Meanwhile a town of four thousand charges seventy dollars, and three more charge twenty-five to fifty-seven. Twelve are silent, and on those we ask rather than assume. Note also that the section this used to cite was REPEALED on 1 July 2026; the hook is now RSA 155-A:3.
If the code applies everywhere, who actually enforces it on my roof?
In practice, your contract does. RSA 155-A:2, VII makes the contractor responsible for meeting the state building code and states that the municipality is not liable for his failure to do so. Where no inspector is coming, the only record of what was supposed to happen is the scope you signed, which is why ours names sections and standards instead of saying the work will be done to code.
What happens if I have a problem with the roof afterwards?
New Hampshire runs everything through RSA 359-G. Before you can file, you serve the contractor written notice of the claim at least sixty days out, described in enough detail to explain the defect, along with the evidence you hold. He then has thirty days to offer repair or payment, propose an inspection, or reject it. If you skip that step, the court stays your case until you have done it.
Why does my written warranty matter so much here?
Because the statute reads your contractor's written warranty first - but it does NOT leave you with nothing if there is no warranty.
RSA 359-G:2, III goes on to say that if no written express warranty or applicable statutory warranty provides a definition, a construction defect means a matter concerning the design, construction, modification or repair of a residence about which a person has a complaint against a contractor. That fallback is broader than most written warranties.
Massachusetts, which is minutes from our southern towns rather than an hour away, goes further still and registers residential contractors with a guaranty fund behind them. Read the exclusions before you sign rather than after something leaks.
Are Manchester houses old enough for that to matter?
Yes, and the Census bears it out. Of the city's roughly 52,100 housing units, about 14,600 were built in 1939 or earlier - a little over twenty-eight per cent, against under nineteen per cent across the county. Older framing, older decking and older chimneys mean more surprises once a roof is opened, and surprises are exactly what an agreed written scope is for.