Roofing Contractor in Lowell, MA

Senco Home Services is a licensed roofing contractor that replaces roofs in Lowell, MA. We've done roofing work in the city, and the housing here is a different job from the suburbs around it: older, and often split into apartments. This page covers what a roof replacement looks like on a Lowell building. For our full process and materials, see the main roofing page.

Roof Replacement on Lowell's Pre-War Housing

Census data puts the median year built for Lowell housing at 1942, and about half the city's housing units are in buildings from before 1940. A roof on a building that old has usually been replaced more than once, and each round leaves something behind: a second layer of shingles, a patched section of deck, flashing reworked around a chimney. We tear off to the deck, replace what's soft or rotted, and put down new underlayment, ice barrier, flashing and CertainTeed shingles. If the damage looks limited, our Lowell roof repair crew can look first. To see a number for your roof, get a free roof quote.

3-Tab, Architectural & Luxury Shingle Options

The shingle you pick changes how the building looks from the street and how long the roof lasts. We'll walk you through the three CertainTeed lines and install whichever fits the building and the budget.

Two-Families, Three-Families and Multi-Unit Roofs

About a quarter of Lowell's housing units are in two-family and three- and four-unit buildings. A pitched roof over three apartments is the same residential job as a single-family roof, with more people underneath it. Once your job is on the calendar, you'll know the dates in time to let your tenants know. Flat or low-slope sections, and full commercial buildings, fall under our commercial roofing page.

Free Roof Inspections in Lowell

Before we quote a Lowell roof, we look at the shingles, flashing, decking and attic ventilation, not only what's visible from the sidewalk. The inspection is free, whether you end up needing a full replacement, a smaller repair, or nothing yet.

Local Roofing, Not a Call Center

Lowell's Roofer, Ten Minutes Up Route 38

Senco is based at 1150 Main St in Tewksbury. Follow Main Street north and it becomes Rogers Street at the Lowell line, about 5 miles and 10 minutes from the shop. Parts of Belvidere and South Lowell were Tewksbury land until 1888 and 1906.

We work across all eight of Lowell's neighborhoods: the Acre, Back Central, Belvidere, Centralville, Downtown, the Highlands, Pawtucketville and South Lowell. A roof on Christian Hill in Centralville, one in the Highlands and one in Pawtucketville can be three very different jobs, and we quote each building on its own.

Lowell requires a building permit for roofing. It comes from the Division of Development Services at City Hall, 375 Merrimack Street, 2nd floor, Room 55 (978-674-4144), and the fee is based on the total cost of the job. We pull it for every Lowell roof replacement. If your building is in one of the Lowell Historic Board's 11 districts, we check with the board's staff, on the same floor of City Hall, before we order shingles.

Lowell sits in the same 50 psf ground-snow-load column as Tewksbury in the state building code, and it's under the same statewide ice-barrier rule. Every Lowell roof gets the same ice-and-water shield and sealed flashing we'd put on our own.

Tewksbury is home base, and we cover the cities and towns around it:

• Tewksbury · HQ
• Billerica
• Wilmington
• Andover
• North Andover
• Chelmsford
• Lowell
• Dracut
• Reading
• North Reading
• Burlington
• Methuen