Exterior Services · Minneapolis And The Twin Cities
Exterior Remodeling In The Twin Cities, Done From The Sheathing Out
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New siding over soft sheathing is expensive wallpaper. It photographs beautifully and it keeps failing quietly behind the finish.
Your roof gets the attention. Your siding, gutters, trim, windows and paint are what keep weather out of the other ninety percent of the wall. Right Away Construction does exterior remodeling across the Twin Cities the way carpenters do it: open the wall, find out what water has actually been doing, rebuild the structure, and only then put the new surface on. One local team, accountable for all of it, from the roofline to the foundation.
- Carpentry-first on every exterior job. Rot rebuilt, not covered
- Multiple crews of our own, including a carpentry crew. No subcontracted strangers on your walls
- You see photographs of what we found behind the old siding, not just the finished shot
Licensed MN BC630708 · GAF Certified Contractor · Insured and bondable
Where Does Your Project Start?
Most exterior projects turn out to be bigger or smaller than the homeowner assumed. Tell us what you are looking at and we'll tell you which one it is.
Start Here
Start Where You Actually Are
Something Is Failing
Peeling paint, soft trim, a wasp nest in the soffit, a gutter that pulled away, siding that cracked in a cold snap. Small exterior failures are almost always water telling you where it has been getting in.
Planning A Whole-Exterior Project
Siding, gutters, paint, windows, maybe the roof, all in one season. This is the version that costs less per square foot and looks better when it is finished, because it gets planned as one wall instead of four projects.
We Took Storm Damage
Hail does not stop at the roofline. It dents steel and aluminum, fractures vinyl and fiber cement, and crushes gutters, and those losses usually ride along with the roofing claim.
Not sure which one you are? Call 612-255-9605. Describe what you are looking at and we will tell you what it usually means.
Every Exterior Service We Offer
Everything outside the roofline, from one accountable local team. Each one opens to the honest materials, the process, and real photographs of our work on Twin Cities homes.
Sized, pitched and hung the way roofers do it, built for Minnesota snow melt and downpours, with the fascia repaired before anything hangs on it.
Prep-first painting with Sherwin-Williams and Benjamin Moore products. Paint lasts exactly as long as the preparation underneath it, so that is where the hours go.
Additions And Decks
Master-carpenter additions, dormers, porches and decks, tied into the existing roof and siding so the new work reads as original.
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And the work that ties it together. Fascia, soffit and trim carpentry, exterior wall repairs, storm and hail damage to siding and gutters, and the flashing details where the roof hands off to the wall. Those are not separate line items on a separate invoice. They are the job. Trim and fascia repair that starts at the roofline is handled through Roof Repair.
Looking for roofing instead? Start at All Our Services, or go straight to Roof Replacement or Roof Repair. Managing an apartment, condominium or HOA property? Start at Multifamily.
The Wall Is A System, The Same Way The Roof Is
Everybody understands that a roof is more than shingles. Almost nobody applies the same thinking to a wall, which is why so much exterior work in this market is a new surface installed over an unsolved problem. Here is what is actually back there.
Layer 1. The Sheathing
The structural skin of the house. When water gets behind the cladding and stays, this is what softens. You find it by pulling the old siding off, not by looking at the outside of it.
Layer 2. The Water-Resistive Barrier
The layer behind the cladding whose entire job is to catch what gets past the surface and send it back out. Siding is not waterproof and was never meant to be. Water gets behind every cladding material on earth; the question is whether it has a path back out or a place to sit.
Layer 3. Flashing And The Drainage Plane
Head flashing over windows and doors, kick-out flashing where a roof edge meets a wall, sill pans, and the laps that have to run in the correct direction. Kick-out flashing is the single most commonly missing detail we find, and the single most reliable cause of a rotted wall cavity behind an otherwise perfect-looking house.
Layer 4. The Cladding
Fiber cement, engineered wood, steel, vinyl, cedar. The layer everybody shops on, and the layer least likely to be why the wall failed.
Layer 5. Trim, Fascia And Soffit
The carpentry that finishes the assembly and holds the gutter. Soft fascia means gutters pulling loose, and gutters pulling loose means more water in the wall, which means softer fascia. That loop is why the two trades belong on the same crew.
Before and After - New Horizontal vinyl lap siding.
Old siding removal, window still present.
Siding installed, back garage window removed.
Water always wins eventually. Good exterior work is not about stopping it, it is about giving it somewhere to go.
Carpentry First. The Rot Gets Fixed, Not Covered
Most exterior companies are installers. They are good at putting a surface on quickly, and they are not equipped, staffed or priced to deal with what is behind it. So when they find soft sheathing on a Tuesday, the options are to stop the job or to keep going. You can guess which one usually happens.
We are carpenters before we are anything else. Josh is a master carpenter who has been building since the 1990s, and we run a carpentry crew alongside the roofing crews for exactly this reason. Structural repair is not a change order that ruins our week. It is Tuesday.
- We open the wall before we price the finish, wherever the evaluation gives us reason to
- Soft sheathing, rotten fascia, failed window bucks and damaged framing get rebuilt and flashed correctly before any new panel, gutter or coat goes on
- You get photographs of what we found and what we did about it, so the invisible work is not invisible to you
- The number for structural repair is discussed before the work starts, not discovered afterward
Before. Northeast Minneapolis.
After. Same property, whole exterior.
Minnesota earns this discipline. Freeze and thaw pries at every seam, ice loads pull at every fastener, and summer sun cooks the south face while the north face stays damp all week. A wall built for this climate lasts decades. A wall installed over problems just hides the receipts until somebody else has to open it.
One Team, One Proposal, One Accountable Finish
From the roofline to the foundation. Tell us what you are seeing and we will give you a straight read on it, in writing, with photographs.
Why Exterior Remodeling In The Twin Cities Works Better With One Team
Siding rarely travels alone. It arrives with fascia and soffit carpentry, with gutters that have to be hung after the siding rather than through it, with windows that have to be flashed into the wall as one continuous system, and with paint wherever wood stays in the picture.
When one accountable local team owns all of those layers, they integrate. The flashing agrees with the siding. The gutters agree with the fascia. The colors agree with the roof. And there is one phone number to call in year six.
Hire four separate low bidders and you get four warranties that all point at each other on the day the wall leaks.
Nobody is lying to you in that scenario. It is genuinely difficult to tell whose layer failed when four different companies installed four layers that were supposed to work as one.
Should You Do The Roof And The Siding At The Same Time?
Often, yes, and here is the honest reasoning rather than the upsell version.
When Doing Them Together Is Genuinely Better
- The drip edge to gutter to fascia handoff and the roof to wall flashing get built correctly in one pass, by one crew, instead of being inherited by whoever comes second
- Kick-out flashing gets installed where a roof edge dies into a wall, which is close to impossible to add correctly later without pulling siding back off
- Colors get chosen as a set, in daylight, against each other
- You mobilize the site, the dumpster, the staging and the disruption once instead of across three summers
- The second trade does not pay a premium for working around the first trade's finished work
When Phasing Is The Better Call
- The roof is failing now and the siding has five good years left. Do not spend money early to make a schedule tidy
- Cash flow is the real constraint, and phasing keeps the whole project happening instead of half of it happening
- One elevation is the actual problem and the other three are fine
We will tell you which one your house is. If your project is really a whole-exterior project we will plan it that way, with one crew, one proposal and one accountable finish. If it is not, we will say that too, and we will sequence it so nothing we do this year has to be undone next year.
Roof, siding and deck planned and built as one project. Roseville MN.
Exterior Materials, Compared Honestly
Category level here, and the detail lives on each child page. There is no single correct material for every Twin Cities house, and anyone who tells you otherwise sells one thing.
Fiber Cement
Dense, dimensionally stable, holds paint well and shrugs off Minnesota freeze and thaw. Heavier and more labor-intensive to install correctly, which is exactly why installation quality matters more than the brand on the box. Cut and fastened wrong, it fails as fast as anything else.
Engineered Wood
Lighter than fiber cement, real wood texture, faster to install, forgiving on complex elevations. Its weak point is cut ends and unsealed edges, so it rewards a crew that finishes details rather than races through them.
Steel And Aluminum
Excellent longevity and the strongest hail performance in the cladding category, though it dents rather than cracks, which shows. Common on this market's mid-century housing and worth considering where hail is the primary concern.
Vinyl
The most cost-effective option and still the most common cladding in the metro. Quality varies enormously between products, and the difference shows up in cold-snap brittleness and in how the panels look after ten summers. We install quality vinyl and we will tell you plainly where the line is.
On Gutters
Seamless aluminum is the default and the correct default for most homes here, sized and pitched to the roof area feeding it rather than to a standard. Steel is available where hail or ice loading justify it. Guards are a real product category with real limitations, and we will tell you which situations they help and which they do not.
On Paint
We use Sherwin-Williams and Benjamin Moore products. Preparation is the whole job. Scraping, sanding, priming bare wood and treating chalking or chalky surfaces before a brush touches finish paint is what separates a coating that lasts eight years from one that lasts three, and it is not visible in the finished photograph, which is precisely why so many companies skip it.
On Windows
Insert replacement keeps the existing frame and is the faster, less invasive option when the frame is sound. Full-frame replacement takes the window down to the rough opening and is the only correct choice when the buck or the sill has been getting wet. Any company that only ever recommends one of the two is not evaluating your house.
Hail Does Not Stop At The Roofline
The Twin Cities took at least four documented severe-weather events in 2026 alone, including two-inch-plus hail in northern St. Paul on June 19. Most homeowners file the roof and never think about the wall, and then discover three years later that the dented steel, the fractured vinyl and the crushed gutter were part of the same loss and the claim is long closed.
We document exterior damage the way carriers actually need it: every elevation photographed, damage circled on the photographs, and the exterior scope written alongside the roofing scope rather than as an afterthought.
We work inside clear limits here, and they are worth stating plainly. We document, we communicate, and we refer. We are not a public adjuster, we do not represent you, and we are not permitted to interpret your policy or tell you what it covers. We never inflate a scope, and we never offer to absorb, waive or rebate a deductible, which in Minnesota is illegal and means your insurer is not obligated to consider that company's estimate at all. What we can do is document the exterior thoroughly enough that you and your adjuster are looking at the same building. Whether to file is your call. What is covered is your insurer's.
Before. Blaine MN.
After. Siding, paint and roof, one project.
Why Twin Cities Homeowners Choose Right Away Construction For Their Exterior
- The rot gets fixed, not covered. Standing policy on every exterior job, not an upsell that appears on day three.
- One accountable team for the whole envelope. Siding, gutters, windows, trim and paint that agree with each other, and one number to call afterward.
- Installed to manufacturer specification. Clearances, fastening patterns and flashing details are what keep a material warranty real. Most warranty denials are installation denials.
- Hail-metro material judgment. We have watched every one of these materials take a Minnesota storm. That experience comes with the evaluation.
- Local crews, start to finish. Multiple crews of our own, including carpenters. No subcontracted strangers on your walls, and no door knocking.
- Sixty years between our leaders, licensed MN BC630708, insured and bondable, and the license is verifiable by anyone at the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry lookup.
Detached garage siding and roof, Minneapolis MN.
At Right Away Construction, five-star service is the standard, not the goal.
See the work on our project gallery, or meet Josh and Lewis on our about page.
Exterior Remodeling Questions, Answered
Yes, and it is usually the smarter way to do it. One crew sequences the work so the layers integrate, one proposal covers it, and you set the site up once. You also get one company accountable for the finished wall instead of several pointing at each other.
We fix it. Our crews do structural carpentry every week, so soft sheathing, rotten fascia and failed window bucks get rebuilt and flashed correctly before any new siding, gutter or coat goes on. You will see photographs of what we found and what we did about it.
Often yes, sometimes no, and the answer depends on your house rather than on our calendar. Doing them together builds the roof-to-wall and roof-to-gutter details correctly in one pass and mobilizes the site once. Phasing makes more sense when one system is failing now and the other has years left. We will tell you which one you have.
All of it. Dented steel and aluminum, fractured vinyl and fiber cement, crushed gutters and torn screens. Those losses typically belong to the same claim as the roof, which is why the exterior needs documenting at the same time rather than three years later.
Insert replacement keeps the existing frame and is faster and less invasive when the frame is sound. Full-frame takes the window down to the rough opening, which is the only correct choice when the buck or sill has been getting wet. A company that only offers one of the two is not evaluating your house.
It depends almost entirely on preparation and on which elevation you are looking at. South and west faces take the sun and fail first. Properly prepared and primed work in Sherwin-Williams or Benjamin Moore products holds up for years longer than a coat rolled over chalking wood, and the difference is invisible on day one.
It depends on the scope and the city. Siding replacement and window replacement can trigger permitting requirements that vary by jurisdiction across the metro, and the rules differ between Minneapolis, St. Paul and the suburbs. We handle permitting on the work we do and we will tell you what your project needs before it starts.
Yes, through a third-party financing partner, so a whole-exterior project can be handled on a budget that works. We will walk through the options at your evaluation.
Yes. Josh is a master carpenter and additions, dormers, porches and decks are the work he came up in. Call 612-255-9605 to talk through a project.
Find Out What Is Actually Behind Your Siding
Tell us what you are seeing. One of our people will walk the whole exterior, look at the places water gets in rather than the places it shows, and give you a written proposal that names the materials, the carpentry and the numbers. Pick the option that fits your house and let us get you on the schedule.
- If the wall is sound and this is a paint job, we will say so
- You get photographs of what we found behind the old siding, not just the finished shot
- Local crews, start to finish. Done the right way. Right away.
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The Minnesota Hail And Insurance Claim Guide
Hail damages siding and gutters too, and most homeowners never claim it. What actually counts as damage, what your insurer will ask for, and the two Minnesota statutes that disagree about your deadline. Name and email, and we will send it.