Roofing In Minneapolis & Hennepin County

Minneapolis is an old, leafy, lake-filled city, and every part of that shows up on the roof. The housing stock skews early-1900s: bungalows, four-squares, Tudors, and stuccos with steep, complex rooflines that a cut-rate crew shouldn't be walking. The city's famous tree canopy, around the Chain of Lakes, Minnehaha Creek, and the Grand Rounds, is beautiful. The downside: it drops constant debris, holds moisture and shade-driven moss on north slopes, and drops limbs in every windstorm.

Layer on Minnesota's weather (spring hail, straight-line wind, and the freeze and thaw cycle that builds ice dams along older, under-ventilated eaves) and you get roofs that fail in predictable, local ways. We build and repair for exactly those conditions.

The four things every Minneapolis home eventually needs, from one accountable local team.

Minneapolis takes the same hail and wind as the rest of the metro, and the older the roof, the more a storm can shorten its life without an obvious leak. We inspect honestly and tell you whether you actually have damage. If you do, 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. No inflated claims, no deductible games.

Hennepin is the state's largest county, and we roof its suburbs as readily as the city:

A 1912 roof is not a 1995 roof. Steeper pitches, original decking, cut-in valleys, and period materials all take experience, along with the right safety and technique, to do correctly. We're comfortable on the roofs many companies quietly decline, and we'll match materials and detailing to the home rather than force a one-size shingle onto a house that deserves better.

On slate, here's our honest line: we install and replace modern slate (synthetic and newly quarried, with modern, up-to-code methods) and repair modern slate systems. Repairing an original, historic slate roof is its own craft; if that's what you have, we'll say so and point you toward dedicated classic-slate specialists. We also perform certain maintenance on other classic roof systems, and we're glad to take a look. (Considering a lifetime-grade roof? See Lifetime Roofs.)

Roofing in Minneapolis is permitted and inspected through the city's Minneapolis Development Review Department and the Community Planning & Economic Development Department. They specifically ensure each roof is completed according to code, which is especially important because our climate carries specific ice-and-water and ventilation requirements. We pull the permit and schedule the inspection so you never have to. Always build to code, not around it.

From a Northeast bungalow to a lakeside home in the southwest, Right Away Construction gives you the honest evaluation, the clear proposal, and roofing done correctly, all by crews that live here.