A Bay Area story: the family behind your roof and gutters for decades.
We’ve been family-owned and family-run since 2002. Nirko is still on the jobs. Tami still answers the phone. And every gutter and every roof still gets done the way we’d want it done on our own home — right.
Who is behind Sunshine Gutters and Roofing?
Nirko and Tami Hadari. Nirko founded Sunshine Gutters and Roofing in 2002 and still runs the crews; Tami runs the office. It's a family company in El Cerrito, serving all nine Bay Area counties with gutter installation, cleaning and repair, and roof installation and repair. Licensed (CSLB #1053780), bonded and insured.
It started with a homeowner who couldn't get a straight answer.
About 25 years ago, Nirko came from New York City to visit a dear friend in the Bay Area. He immediately fell in love with the Bay and decided to stay. In 2002, only in his mid-20s, he jumped into a fixer-upper opportunity and was in critical need of good local skilled professionals. What he found instead was an industry problem: contractors who didn't show up on time — or didn't show up at all. Crews with no license, no training, and no real experience. Sloppy work, vague pricing, and zero transparency about what was needed and what was actually being done.
So he made a decision that became the company's founding principle: "Just do it right."
Show up when you say you will. Get licensed, trained, and insured. Do clean, careful work — and be straight with people about what their home needs and what it doesn't. That was the whole business plan. It turned out to be a rare one.
Sunshine Gutters and Roofing grew the only way a company like that can grow — by reputation. One job done right became a neighbor's referral. A referral became a street. A street became a city, and a city became the entire Bay Area. Thousands of Bay Area homes later, that's still the plan.
Somewhere along the way, the company's best hire happened by marriage. When Nirko met Tammar — Tami to everyone who calls — Sunshine Gutters and Roofing gained more than an office manager. It gained a businesswoman.
Today the division of labor is simple, and it's why things run the great way they do. Nirko runs the field — the crews, the installs, the quality of every job. Tami runs the business — the scheduling, the estimates, the communication that means you actually know when the crews are coming and what it will cost. Together they took a one-man operation and built it into a company serving all nine Bay Area counties — without ever letting it stop feeling like a family business. Because it never stopped being one.
“I started this company because I couldn't find anyone I'd trust on my own roof. That's still the standard: if I wouldn't accept it on my house, it doesn't pass on yours.”
— Nirko Hadari, Founder & Owner
Gutters aren't about rain. They're about everything the rain would ruin.
Twenty-four years in this trade taught Nirko and Tami something most people — and honestly, many contractors — overlook: a gutter system isn't there to stop a water curtain at the roofline. It's there to protect the asset behind it. Your foundation. Your walls. Your roof. The single most expensive thing most families own, defended by a few hundred feet of metal that almost nobody thinks about until it fails.
And in recent years, California taught everyone a second lesson: in fire country, as essential as it is, an entirely open gutter full of dry leaves is a potential ignition point. Wind-blown embers can land up to a mile away, and a debris-filled gutter or roof is exactly where they catch. That's one of the reasons Sunshine Gutters and Roofing installs ember-resistant gutter guards: not just to significantly reduce the ladder-climbing and the clogs, but to close off one of the ways homes ignite in a wildfire.
Water damage
A gutter packed with leaves and needles can't move water away from the house. The rain backs up at the edge of your roof or pours down beside the walls — and water that gets inside means mold and rot.
Foundation
After a good rain, walk around the house. Puddles along the walls, or soil washed out under a downspout, mean the water off your roof is staying by your foundation. It belongs at least five feet away.
Fire
Embers that land on leaves and needles in a gutter put flames right at the edge of your roof. Keeping the gutters clear matters most. Guards help — and the roof above them still needs clearing.
The roof and the gutters are one system — water doesn't treat them as separate, and neither do embers. So when we expanded into roofing, it was a natural continuation of the same job: protecting the whole home, under one standard.
Our roofing division is held to exactly what built our name in gutters — licensed for roofing in its own right, the same integrity, the same craftsmanship, the same straight answers. And the same fire-forward thinking: Class A fire-resistant roofing on every roof we install, ember-resistant vents on request, and assemblies built for what California weather actually does, not what it used to do.
We seamlessly handle the roof and the gutters together under the same company.
We love the Bay Area — the nature, the people, the whole atmosphere of this place. Nirko and Tami are raising their four kids here, with love and pride. Their oldest recently joined the Fire Department, and is now training further as a paramedic firefighter.
That last part isn't a coincidence. Fire safety isn't just a work perspective in this family — it's the dinner-table conversation. It's part of why we put so much effort into something most contractors never bother with: tracking the safety regulations, code changes, grant programs, and insurance benefits available to Bay Area homeowners — and translating them into plain, simple information our neighbors can actually use.
If there's a home-hardening grant in your district, an insurance discount you qualify for, or a new requirement that affects your roof — we want you to know about it, whether or not you ever hire us. That's what being part of a community means.
"Just do it right" isn't a slogan. It's a checklist.
We show up. On time, when we said we would. The thing that frustrated Nirko in 2002 is the thing we refuse to do to you.
We tell you the truth. Including when you don't need a service. If a cleaning will do, we won't sell you a replacement. Honest answers built this company for the long term — we're not trading them for one bigger invoice.
We do it properly. Licensed (CSLB #1053780), bonded, insured, trained — and standing behind every new installation with our 7-year workmanship guarantee.
We leave it better. Clean site, well-documented work, and a clear explanation of what we did and why. You should never have to wonder what happened on your own roof.
Not one license complaint in twenty-four years. And about half of our jobs come from customers who've hired us before — or the people they sent our way.
Credentials
CSLB License #1053780
Licensed California contractor — verify it yourself on the CSLB site: CSLB lookup link
Bonded and fully insured
$2 million general liability, plus workers' comp for every employee
Class A fire-rated roofing systems
On every roof we install. The highest fire-resistance classification
7-year workmanship guarantee
On every new installation
GAF Certified
See our listing on GAF's site
Roof Maxx
We apply Roof Maxx on asphalt shingle roofs
Twenty-four years of doing it right. Let us prove it on your home.
Free estimates. Straight answers. One company for your gutters and your roof.
“Let us shine on your rainy day”