Rooftop Power is a roofing company as much as a solar company. Our own licensed crews replace and repair roofs across Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut, and because we also install solar, we build roofs that are ready for whatever you put on them next. Roof-only jobs are welcome, with no solar pitch attached.
A New England roof takes salt air, wind, ice dams and freeze-thaw cycles that age shingles faster than a warranty chart would suggest. When yours is due, we strip it to the deck, repair whatever the tear-off reveals, and rebuild the whole system properly, not just the top layer you can see from the ground.
That means ice and water shield along the eaves and valleys, synthetic underlayment across the field, architectural shingles rated for our wind zones, correct ridge and soffit ventilation, and flashing detailed for the way water actually moves on your roof. A roof is an assembly. Skip a layer and it is the layer you skipped that leaks in February.
You get a straight inspection first. If a repair honestly buys your roof several more years, we say so and we quote the repair. If it is genuinely replacement time, we show you the photos and the evidence, not a fear pitch. The same crew that inspects it is the crew that builds it, and we back the workmanship in writing.
Solar panels last 25 years or more. The roof underneath them has to keep pace. Mount an array on shingles that have five or six years left and you are signing up to pay a crew to pull every panel off, replace the roof, and set the panels back down, a job that can run into thousands of dollars and weeks of scheduling once your roof finally gives out.
That is the single most avoidable mistake we see in this market. A cheaper installer will happily bolt panels onto a tired roof to close the sale, because the reroof problem lands on you years later, long after their truck has left. We look at the roof before we look at the array, every time.
If your roof has plenty of life, great, we design around it and leave it alone. If it does not, we tell you before anything is signed, and we handle both trades so the panels only ever get installed once. Getting the roof right first is not an upsell. It is the thing that protects the solar investment sitting on top of it.
Here is the trap homeowners fall into. They go solar on an aging roof through one company, then a few years later hire a second company to reroof, and a third to remove and reinstall the panels. Three contractors, three schedules, and finger-pointing the moment a leak shows up because nobody owns the whole assembly.
Because Rooftop Power runs its own roofing crews and its own solar crews, we sequence the work as a single project: new roof first, then the array, on one timeline, under one point of accountability. The people who flash your roof are the same company as the people who penetrate it for the mounts, so the two trades are actually designed to work together instead of blaming each other.
Already have panels on a roof that needs work? Our removal and reinstallation service takes the panels down safely, replaces the roof beneath them, and resets the array, all handled in house so the electrical and the roofing stay coordinated from start to finish.
For the large majority of New England homes, architectural asphalt shingles are the right call, and they are what we install most. They handle our wind and temperature swings well, carry strong manufacturer warranties, come in a range of profiles and colors, and give solar a clean, uniform plane to mount to. Modern architectural shingles are a real step up from the flat three-tab strips of a generation ago, both in look and in lifespan.
That said, not every roof is asphalt. Some homes have low-slope or flat sections over additions and porches that need a membrane rather than shingles. Others carry metal, slate or tile for architectural reasons. During the inspection we tell you honestly what your roof is, what it needs, and where a different material or a membrane detail is the correct answer instead of forcing shingles onto a slope they do not belong on.
When solar is part of the plan, material matters even more, because the mounting approach changes with the roof type. We flag that up front so the roof and the array are specified together, not discovered to be incompatible halfway through the job.
Rooftop Power holds a Rhode Island General Contractor license, number 42278, and a Massachusetts Construction Supervisor license, number 155831, and we are licensed to work across Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut. We carry a BBB A+ rating and thousands of completed projects behind us, so the company standing on your roof is one you can look up, not a crew of day-labor subs a broker rounded up for the week.
The roofers, electricians and solar installers on your job are Rooftop Power employees. That is not a slogan, it is the reason accountability actually exists here. When one company designs the roof, builds it, and answers the phone afterward, there is no subcontractor to disappear and no warranty gap between trades to fall through.
It is also why so many of our reviews name the actual crew. People remember a team that showed up on time, protected the property, and did the work right, and they tend to hire the same company again for the solar, the battery or the next roof.
Every roof starts with a real inspection, not a windshield glance. We get up on the roof, check the field, the valleys, the flashing, the penetrations and the ventilation, and we photograph what we find so you are looking at the same evidence we are. From there you get an honest scope: repair, replacement, or in plenty of cases, nothing yet.
Once you approve the work, we pull the required building permits with your city or town and schedule around the weather, because a roof opened up ahead of a storm is a roof done wrong. On install day the crew protects your landscaping and siding, tears off, inspects and repairs the deck, and rebuilds the system layer by layer.
When it is finished, we magnet-sweep the yard and driveway for nails, haul away the old material, and leave the property clean. Where the town requires a final building inspection, we see it through, and you get your warranty documentation in writing rather than a handshake.
A roof here is judged in January, not July. Ice dams form when heat escaping through an under-ventilated attic melts snow that refreezes at the cold eave, backing water up under the shingles. We fight that with balanced ridge-and-soffit ventilation and a generous run of ice and water shield along the eaves and valleys, the two details that most often separate a roof that stays dry from one that leaks every thaw.
Wind is the other test. Coastal Rhode Island and the Massachusetts and Connecticut shorelines take gusts that peel back an improperly nailed or under-rated shingle in a hurry. We install shingles rated for our wind zones, nailed to the manufacturer’s spec, with flashing detailed for the direction weather actually comes from, so a nor’easter does not turn into a repair call.
Doing it right the first time is what makes a roof last its full rated life instead of aging out early. That matters for any home, and it matters even more when a 25-year solar array is going to live on top of it.
Plenty of our roofing customers are not going solar at all, and that is completely fine. Roofing is a full trade at Rooftop Power with its own crews, and a roof-only quote comes with no solar pitch bolted onto it. If solar ever does make sense for you down the road, the roof will already be ready for it.
For the homeowners who are thinking beyond the roof, a new roof is the natural moment to plan the rest, because the trades coordinate best when they are sequenced together rather than bolted on later. These are the services our roofing customers most often pair with the work.
New roof under existing panels, taken down and reset safely as one project.
Learn MorePair the new roof with an array and finish both trades in a single pass.
Learn MoreOptions to spread the cost of a roof or a full roof-and-solar project.
Learn MoreNot every roof problem is a full replacement, and we will not pretend otherwise to sell one. Missing shingles after a nor’easter, a flashing leak around the chimney, a cracked pipe boot, ice-dam damage at the eave: our roofing crews handle repairs across all three states with the same standard we bring to a full tear-off.
We document what we find with photos, fix the actual source of the problem rather than smearing sealant over the symptom, and tell you honestly where the roof stands overall. Sometimes the straight answer is a hundred-dollar repair that buys you years, and sometimes it is that the roof is genuinely near the end. Either way, you get the evidence and the real scope so you can plan the work instead of panicking into it.
Working with Rooftop Power has been exceptional. From the beginning everyone at RTP kept me informed at every step. When a hiccup happened it was addressed immediately and resolved.
The installation crew was punctual, respectful, and left the job site spotless. I was particularly impressed with their attention to detail from the first consult to the final inspection.
Had a great solar experience with Rooftop Power from start to finish. We ended up getting a new roof and electrical upgrade for the install and used RP for both.
A free inspection with photos and an honest scope, whether that is a repair, a full replacement or nothing at all. Call 401-298-8040.