Residential roofing for the Pacific Northwest.
The residential division is the largest at Cascade — about sixty-two percent of revenue and roughly two hundred and eighty jobs a year. It is the division most homeowners encounter first. Marcus Pruitt has run it since 2014.
The work splits, roughly, as follows: sixty-four percent asphalt shingle (Owens Corning Duration Storm, GAF Timberline HDZ, CertainTeed Landmark Pro), twenty-one percent Western red cedar shake, eleven percent natural slate, and four percent standing-seam metal. We do not do flat residential roofs — those are commercial work, and we send them to the commercial division. We do not do apartment complexes from this division — those are multi-family work. And we do not do tax-credit historical restoration from here either — June Tanaka’s historical division handles that scope.
What this division does is install and replace pitched residential roofs in Pacific Northwest neighborhoods, from a fourteen-thousand-dollar asphalt re-roof on a Salem mid-century to a one-hundred-and-forty-four-thousand-dollar natural slate roof on a Lake Oswego English cottage. We talk to every homeowner about the material the home was meant to wear.
Asphalt shingle done as well as it can be done.
Most Pacific Northwest homes are best served by an architectural asphalt shingle, properly ventilated, properly underlaid, and properly flashed. We install three lines: Owens Corning Duration Storm (the highest-wind-rated mainstream shingle on the market, SureNail technology, fifty-year material warranty), GAF Timberline HDZ (the most-installed architectural shingle in North America, LayerLock backing, fifty-year material), and CertainTeed Landmark Pro (a hundred-and-thirty-mile-per-hour wind rating, fifty-year material).
The Cascade workmanship warranty on asphalt is twenty-five years labor, in writing, and we honor it. The roof is installed by a Cascade W-2 crew, never by a subcontractor. We replace the underlayment (synthetic, not felt), the ice-and-water shield in the valleys and at the eaves, the drip edge, the pipe boots, and typically the ridge vent. We do not just nail new shingles over the old ones.
In the Pacific Northwest, a properly installed architectural asphalt shingle roof, on a properly ventilated attic, with a moss-treatment regimen every three years, will last twenty-eight to thirty-four years. Without moss treatment, the same roof will last seventeen to twenty-two. This is the material conversation we have with every asphalt customer.
The material the Pacific Northwest was meant to wear.
Cedar shake is what we are best known for. Wyatt Olafsson runs every cedar job. We install Western red cedar Cedar Shake & Shingle Bureau Certi-Split #1 Grade hand-split-and-resawn shakes, twenty-four-inch length, half-to-three-quarter-inch butt thickness, sourced from three Canadian mills we have used since 2008. The shake field is laid with a five-to-five-and-a-half-inch exposure on a properly ventilated underlayment. Galvanized stainless ring-shank nails. Copper drip edge where the homeowner wants the upgrade.
Cedar shake performs uniquely well in this climate — its natural oils repel water, its open lapping allows the underlayment to dry between rainfalls, and a properly installed cedar shake roof routinely lasts forty-five to sixty years in Lake Oswego. The cost is roughly three times the cost of asphalt, but the lifespan is roughly twice as long and the architectural register is incomparable.
We do not install untreated cedar within fifteen miles of the coast — salt air shortens its life materially. For coastal homes we recommend CCA-pressure-treated cedar with a copper drip edge, or we steer the conversation toward natural slate.
Natural slate. Buckingham Virginia or Vermont Glendyne.
Natural slate is the longest-lasting residential roofing material available. We install two quarries: Buckingham Virginia black slate (the standard for Pacific Northwest historical work, dense, low-water-absorption, available in twenty-four-by-twelve-inch standard and graduated-coursing sizes) and Vermont Glendyne semi-weathering gray-green (the more cost-effective option, slightly higher water absorption, suitable for non-coastal installations).
Slate is laid on a thirty-pound felt underlayment over an ice-and-water shield, on a roof deck sheathed in one-inch tongue-and-groove (not OSB or plywood — slate is heavy and OSB is not the right substrate). The slate is hung on copper slate hooks or copper nails. Every penetration is flashed in copper, hand-soldered.
A properly installed Buckingham slate roof in the Pacific Northwest will last seventy-five to a hundred and twenty years. We have done four restorations of Pacific Northwest slate roofs over a hundred years old — the slate itself was fine; the copper flashings had failed.
Standing-seam steel. Twenty-four-gauge Galvalume.
Standing-seam steel is the right material for mountain homes (Bend, Hood River, the Cascade foothills), homes with significant snow load, and the small set of contemporary residential designs that call for the look. We install twenty-four-gauge Galvalume-coated steel, mechanically seamed, eighteen-inch panel width, Kynar 500 PVDF finish in slate-gray, weathered-copper, or matte-black. Snow guards in the eave courses where the building inspector requires them.
Standing-seam steel installed correctly will last fifty to seventy years in the Pacific Northwest. The Kynar finish carries a thirty-year manufacturer color warranty. The fastening system is concealed — no exposed-fastener panels, ever.
We do not install standing-seam steel within ten miles of the coast unless the homeowner accepts the corrosion risk — saltwater eats Galvalume faster than the manufacturer’s spec sheet admits.
A new roof is a 25- to 60-year decision, depending on the material. We try to talk to homeowners about it on that horizon, not on the horizon of the next storm or the next claim. The least expensive material is rarely the least expensive over thirty years.
— Henrik LindqvistAbout insurance claims.
The Pacific Northwest is not a hail market, so most of our residential work is not insurance-driven. About eight percent of our annual residential jobs are insurance claims — typically wind damage from a Columbia Gorge windstorm, occasional ice-dam damage in Bend, occasional fallen-tree damage from a winter storm. We handle the insurance claim end-to-end when one applies. We do not chase storms. We do not canvass neighborhoods after a weather event. We will refer you to a friend who runs a storm-specialty operation if your claim is complex enough to need one.
Six weeks, beginning to end.
Site visit
Sixty to ninety minutes, in person, with Henrik or a senior estimator. On the roof, on the ground, in the attic, in the gutters. Photographs. Measurements. Material samples brought.
Written proposal within five business days
One page. Material, scope, schedule, price, warranty. No phone follow-up unless you ask for one.
Material order
Ten to twenty-one days for asphalt. Six to twelve weeks for specialty materials. Deposit at material order; we hold the schedule for you.
Installation
Typically two to five working days for residential; a single working day for a standard asphalt re-roof. Crew arrives at 7 a.m., cleans up the site every evening.
Final walkthrough
With the foreman. Photograph documentation. Warranty paperwork in your hands. Magnetic sweep of the lawn for nails. Gutters cleaned out.
The twelve-month follow-up call
Cascade calls to ask how the roof is performing. Twelve months later, again. This is the call most roofers do not make.
Questions homeowners have asked us.
Do you do asphalt re-roofs on smaller homes, or only the high-end work?
Yes — about sixty-four percent of our residential volume is asphalt shingle, ranging from twelve-hundred-square-foot bungalows to forty-five-hundred-square-foot homes. We are not a specialty-only firm. The residential asphalt division subsidizes the rest of Cascade — and it is run by a foreman, Marcus Pruitt, who has been with the firm since 2007 and treats a fourteen-thousand-dollar asphalt re-roof with the same seriousness as a hundred-and-forty-thousand-dollar slate restoration.
How long is a Cascade residential project from first call to completion?
Typically six weeks. First call to site visit is one to three weeks (longer in the spring and summer). Site visit to written proposal is five business days. Material order is ten to twenty-one days for asphalt, six to twelve weeks for specialty. Installation itself is two to five working days for residential — sometimes a single working day for a standard asphalt re-roof.
What manufacturers’ warranties do you stand behind?
GAF Master Elite Golden Pledge (fifty years material, twenty-five years workmanship) on Timberline. Owens Corning Platinum Protection (fifty years material, twenty-five years workmanship) on Duration Storm. CSSB shake warranty (thirty years material) on Certi-Split #1 Grade cedar. And the Cascade workmanship warranty — twenty-five years labor on every roof we install, in writing, regardless of material.
Can I see roofs you’ve done in my neighborhood?
Yes. We have installed roofs on roughly twenty-three hundred Pacific Northwest structures since 2003. We will give you three references in your zip code on request — homeowners who have agreed to be on the reference list and who do not mind a phone call from a prospective customer.
Do you finance, or do you require cash on completion?
We accept thirty-three percent at material order, thirty-three percent at the start of installation, and the remainder on completion. We do not offer in-house financing. Your bank or credit union typically finances at lower rates than a roofing contractor could.
What happens if I have a problem with the roof in year 18?
Call Astrid. She still works here. Cascade has had two ownership-transition conversations in twenty-three years (Henrik to Astrid, gradually, since 2016); we have no plans to sell to a private-equity rollup. The workmanship warranty is honored for the duration of the original installation crew’s tenure — and the crew that installed your roof in 2026 will, statistically, still be at Cascade in 2044.
Tell us about your home. We’ll come look at the roof.
A Cascade site visit is a sixty- to ninety-minute conversation in person, with no obligation and no high-pressure follow-up. Marcus or Henrik will be on the roof.