Standard Roofing has two birthdays, and Scott Davis can give you either one.
The first falls in the early 1960s, when a previous owner started the company. The second is 1977. “We bought the company from him and my family has owned it since 1977,” Davis says. The company’s own site counts from the later date. Asked for a round figure, Davis puts the business at “approximately 50 years.”
His stepfather, Thomas, owned the company until he died in 2023, and Davis took over. He did not arrive from outside. “I’ve been working for the company all my life,” he says. He runs it without partners.
The company works out of 6199 Third Street in San Francisco. It covers the city and reaches north into Mill Valley, Sausalito and other Marin County towns. Its crews work on shingle, tile and slate, and on flat roofs of modified bitumen and tar and gravel. The site names the local conditions they plan around: fog, wind, steep pitches, Victorian-era buildings and a permitting process it calls strict.
An inspection ends in a written report of three to six pages, with photos, repairs ranked by urgency and an estimate of how many years the roof has left. The company also takes emergency calls around the clock.
Some customers go back a long way. One homeowner, writing in 2024, said Standard had put on his current roof 17 years earlier. He called the company back to replace a decaying downspout, clean the gutters and look over the roof, which needed only minor repairs. Davis fit him into a busy schedule, he wrote, and the crew left the site clean.
Davis describes the company’s standing plainly. “That’s our reputation,” he says. “We’ve been around for a long time and do high quality roof work.”
As for what comes next, now that the name on the business is his, he answers in two words. “Grow it,” he says.