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Roofing in St. Louis Park
St. Louis Park was largely built in one burst after the Second World War, and its roofs are reaching their second or third replacement together.
A city built in eight years
By the St. Louis Park Historical Society's count, about 60 percent of the city's homes were built between 1946 and 1954, with a record 1,122 building permits in 1950 alone. The city's own housing study describes the stock as mostly Cape Cods and small ramblers. That makes it one of the most uniform housing stocks in the metro, and the roof problems are uniform too.
Cape Cods are small story-and-a-halfs
A Cape Cod is a story-and-a-half house under another name: a steep roof with dormers, and an upper floor that was often left unfinished in 1950 and finished later. Once it is finished, the same ice-dam setup appears as on the older Minneapolis bungalows: heated rooms under the slope, little room for insulation, cold eaves. The dormers add valleys and step flashing on both cheeks, which is where St. Louis Park Capes most often leak.
Ramblers are the easier roof
The ramblers, with one floor under a low gable or hip roof and a full attic above, are among the simplest roofs in the metro to replace and to fix for ice dams. Insulation and air sealing reach every corner. The usual issues are age, wind damage on exposed blocks, and hail.
St. Louis Park Cape Cod or rambler due for a roof? Call for a free look before the fall calendar fills.
ZIP codes covered 55416 · 55426
St. Louis Park questions
Who issues roof permits in St. Louis Park?
The City of St. Louis Park, not Minneapolis. Check its building permit rules before work begins; the licensed company normally pulls the permit.
Can dormers be added during a reroof?
They can, but that is structural work with its own permit and design, well beyond a reroof. Plan it separately.
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Get a quote in St. Louis Park
Say what you are seeing: a stain, ice at the eaves, shingles in the yard. A local roofing company will reply and arrange a look, usually within a few days, sooner for an active leak. Answered Mon–Sat · leave a message after hours and you get a call back Or call (651) 381-5283 if it is leaking now; a person picks up faster than a form gets read.