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Roofing In St. Louis Park, Minnesota
★★★★★ Rated five stars by most homeowners, Google
St. Louis Park is the Twin Cities' story-and-a-half capital, and those charming 1940s to '50s rooflines hide the metro's trickiest attics. Tight kneewalls, small dormers, minimal ventilation: we've spent 30+ years learning exactly how to roof them so they stop icing up every February.
- Ventilation, ice-and-water protection, and dormer flashing treated as one system.
- Shingle, synthetic, flat, and low-slope roofs, from homes to the commercial corridors.
- Permits pulled and inspections met on every job, including storm-related repairs.
30+ years of Twin Cities roofing · Local crews, start to finish · Experienced with insurance work · MN Lic. # BC630708
Icing Up Every February?
Roofing a story-and-a-half correctly means treating ventilation, ice-and-water protection, and dormer flashing as one system.
The Story-And-A-Half Capital
St. Louis Park boomed right after the war, and its walkable grid filled with story-and-a-half homes, the expandable Cape-style houses that gave young families an upstairs to grow into. Seventy-five years later, those homes in Minikahda Vista, Texa-Tonka, Elmwood, Sorensen, and Birchwood are the city's signature, and their roofs are a specialty trade.
Here's why: a story-and-a-half puts finished living space directly under the roof deck. The slanted ceilings and kneewall attics leave almost no room for insulation or airflow, so heat leaks into the roof, snow melts unevenly, and ice dams form on the eaves and above the dormers, right where the bedrooms are. A crew that just swaps shingles hasn't fixed anything. Roofing these homes correctly means treating ventilation, ice-and-water protection, and those small dormer flashings as one system. That's the job we've done across the inner-ring suburbs for three decades, plus the ramblers of Aquila and Oak Hill, the newer infill going up across the city, and the flat roofs of the West End.
Full Roofing Services In St. Louis Park
The four things every St. Louis Park home eventually needs, from one accountable local team.
Roof Repair
Ice-dam leaks over kneewalls, dormer flashing, valleys, vents, and chimneys, diagnosed at the true source and fixed correctly, not caulked and forgotten.
Roof Replacement
Tear-off-to-deck systems engineered for story-and-a-half attics: full ice-and-water coverage, ventilation solved for cathedral-tight spaces, premium shingles to spec.
Roof Installation
Roofing for the additions and pop-tops SLP loves: dormers, second-story expansions, and infill new builds, flashed and vented correctly from day one.
Roof Inspection
A photographed, straight-answer evaluation for a home sale, an ice-dam post-mortem, or a suspected hail hit.
Flat Roofs & The West End
St. Louis Park isn't only pitched shingles. The West End, Excelsior & Grand, and the Highway 7 and Louisiana corridors carry mixed-use, retail, and multifamily buildings with flat and low-slope roofs, and Minnesota flat roofs hold snow load all winter, then pond meltwater every thaw. We repair and replace TPO, EPDM, and modified-bitumen systems for building owners and property managers across the city.
Storm, Hail & Insurance In St. Louis Park
When hail crosses the inner-ring suburbs, SLP's older shingles show it fast, and the city explicitly requires permits on storm-related roof repairs, which tells you how much post-storm work (and post-storm shoddiness) this town has seen.
We inspect honestly and tell you whether you actually have damage before you call your insurer. If there is damage, we document it and write our own itemized estimate for the work. We talk to your adjuster about two things: what is damaged, and what it costs to fix. Then we pull the permit and restore the roof ethically, with no inflated claims and no deductible games.
That Is Where Our Lane Ends
We do not represent you, adjust your claim, or negotiate on your behalf. You own the claim. If your carrier denies it, we stop, we hand you everything we have documented at no charge, and what happens next is yours to decide.
St. Louis Park Neighborhoods We Serve
- Minikahda Vista & Browndale: story-and-a-halfs and Tudors on the Edina border, judged from the curb.
- Texa-Tonka, Sorensen & Birchwood: the post-war heart of the city, where ice-dam-proofing is half the job.
- Elmwood & Wolfe Park: older homes beside the newest apartments, near Excelsior & Grand.
- Aquila, Oak Hill & Shelard Park: ramblers, split-levels, and townhomes to the west.
- The West End & Highway 7 corridor: flat-roof commercial and multifamily.
Nearby, we also serve Edina, Hopkins, Golden Valley, and the Minnetonka Boulevard corridor into Minnetonka, plus southwest Minneapolis via the Minneapolis & Hennepin hub.
Permits & Inspections In St. Louis Park
Roofing in St. Louis Park is permitted and inspected through the city's Building & Energy department at 5005 Minnetonka Blvd., including required permits for storm-related repairs. We pull the permit, meet the inspector, and build to code on every job; that paper trail protects you, so we treat it as part of the service.
Why St. Louis Park Homeowners Choose Right Away Construction
- Story-and-a-half fluency. Kneewall attics, cathedral slopes, dormer flashing: we solve the ventilation puzzle these homes actually have, not the one a spec sheet assumes.
- Every roof in the city. Shingle, synthetic, flat, and low-slope, for homes, condos, and the commercial corridors. One accountable team.
- Local crews, start to finish. No storm-chasers.
- Experienced with insurance work, and clear about the limits. We know what adjusters look for. We document the damage and write our own itemized estimate, and we do not represent you, adjust your claim, or negotiate on your behalf.
The Standard, Not The Goal
At Right Away Construction, five-star service is the standard, not the goal.
St. Louis Park Roofing FAQ
Yes. The city's Building & Energy department requires permits and inspections for roofing, explicitly including storm-related repairs. We handle the paperwork and the inspection on every job.
Because your bedrooms live right under the roof. Slanted ceilings and kneewall attics leave little room for insulation and airflow, so escaping heat melts snow that refreezes at the eaves. The lasting fix comes at re-roof: full ice-and-water protection plus ventilation designed for exactly this framing. We can also advise on safe roof snow removal in heavy winters.
Yes, and ideally as one thought. Our carpentry crew handles the structural side of dormers and pop-tops, and we flash and vent the new roofline into the old one correctly so the seam never becomes a leak.
Yes. TPO, EPDM, and modified bitumen, repair through full replacement, for owners and property managers across SLP. Commercial roofing.
Yes. Free for homeowners with a reason to repair or replace. Formal inspections for a sale, insurance, or a commercial building are typically paid.
Free Roof Evaluation
Get A Straight Answer On Your St. Louis Park Roof
An ice-dam post-mortem, a suspected hail hit, or a flat roof that ponds every thaw: tell us what you are seeing. We'll diagnose it at the true source and give you the honest evaluation and the clear proposal.
- Ventilation solved for kneewall attics, not just new shingles.
- We pull the permit and meet the inspector on every job.
- Free for homeowners with a reason to repair or replace.
Done the right way. Right away.
We answer the phone at 612-255-9605 during the day, and we call back the same day when we miss you.
St. Louis Park Roofing, Done The Right Way.
From a Texa-Tonka story-and-a-half to a West End flat roof, Right Away Construction gives you the honest evaluation, the clear proposal, and roofing that finally beats the ice dams.