Roofing Services in Somers, MT
Somers gives a roofer two jobs in one town: lake-side conditions and genuinely old houses. The community sits at the north end of Flathead Lake off US-93, where Highway 82 cuts east toward Bigfork, and it began life as a company lumber town. The Somers Lumber Company mill ran here from the early 1900s until 1949, and some of the housing built for mill workers is still standing and still lived in. That history matters when you are replacing a roof, because what is under the shingles on a century-old house is a different conversation than on a 2005 build. We handle both, from our shop near Kila, with a drone survey opening every estimate.
Reroofing houses from the mill era
Somers was built as a company town, and houses from that era often carry plank decking, multiple old shingle layers, and framing that predates any modern code. None of that rules out a great new roof, but it changes the work. We plan tear-offs on older Somers homes expecting surprises: soft boards near historic leak points, skip sheathing that needs overlay before architectural shingles go down, and ventilation that never existed and needs to be created. We price the known work up front, tell you what the contingencies are before we start, and show you photos of anything we find once the old roof is off. On a house that has stood for a hundred years, the goal is a roof that respects the next fifty.
North shore weather, from lake damp to snow load
The north end of Flathead Lake collects moisture. Shaded and north-facing slopes in Somers hold damp longer than roofs in open valley farmland, which encourages moss and algae growth and slowly degrades shingles that never get a chance to dry. Winter adds standard Flathead snow load and the freeze-thaw cycling that builds ice dams at the eaves of under-ventilated houses. Our answer is consistent: algae-resistant shingle lines, real intake and exhaust ventilation, and ice barrier detailed generously at eaves and valleys. On newer homes above the lake, the same drone survey that documents an old mill house maps hail and wind wear precisely enough to settle repair-versus-replace questions with photos instead of guesswork.
Somers sits where our west shore and Bigfork routes meet, minutes from the Kalispell work our flagship page describes, so it slots naturally into our weekly territory.
About twenty-five minutes from our shop, through Kalispell and south on US-93 to the north shore.
