We walk the roof before we price it. We show up the day the deck is dry.
Mike Torres started Ridgeline in 2009 with two trucks and six roofers. Sixteen years later it is thirty-eight roofers on payroll, four manufacturer certifications, and property managers who call before the storm instead of after.
How we got here.
Mike roofed for other companies for eleven years. He saw the pattern: a salesman who never went on the roof, a crew of whoever was available, and a tear-off that found wet insulation nobody had priced. Ridgeline was started to do the opposite: the owner walks it, the crew is ours, and the scan happens before the contract.
The first years were residential and small commercial. By 2014 it was commercial only, with the GAF Master Select certification that let us issue the warranties property managers were asking for. Carlisle and Firestone followed. The maintenance program started in 2018 when a property manager asked us to just look at all of them twice a year.
No subs, no storm chasing
Every roofer on a Ridgeline roof is on our payroll, trained by our foremen, and tied off. We do not bring in out-of-state crews after a storm and we do not sub the labor to make a number. When a monsoon hits, our program clients get a Ridgeline foreman on the phone, not a voicemail.
Where we are going
More maintenance, more industrial, and a crew that stays. Our foremen average nine years with us. The plan is to keep it that way.
Four things you can hold us to.
Walk it before we price it
Scan and cores on every scope. No allowances that grow.
Our own crew
Thirty-eight roofers on payroll. The crew that bid it is on the roof.
Watertight every night
Tear-off sized to the day. Monsoon planned around.
Answer the phone when it rains
A foreman on the 24-hour line. Program roofs first.
Who answers the phone.
Mike Torres
Owner
Mike tore off his first roof at nineteen and started Ridgeline at thirty with two trucks and a crew of six. He walks every commercial roof before it is bid, writes the scope himself, and is the person a property manager calls when a storm hits. GAF Master Select since 2014.
Carlos Mendez
General Foreman
Sixteen years with Ridgeline; runs the field crews and the manufacturer inspections.
Angie Torres
Operations and Service
Runs the maintenance program, the 24-hour line and monsoon dispatch.
Ben Walsh
Chief Estimator
Walks and scans every roof with Mike; writes the scope with the cores in it.
Tell us about the roof.
A Ridgeline estimator replies the same business day. Program clients reach a foreman on the 24-hour line, any time.