Ten Lakes Roofing

Roofing across the Twin Cities suburbs

A free connecting service linking homeowners with local roofing providers. Describe the roof and what you are seeing, and you will be pointed to someone who covers your area.

A roof almost never quits in the middle. It quits at the transitions. Six places a roof gives way. The one everyone checks is No. 2, the shingle field — the other five do most of the failing.
Garage Point 1 — ridge caps 1 Ridge caps — fatigued by the annual swing Point 2 — the field of the roof 2 The field — snow load and age Point 3 — valleys 3 Meltwater runs under the snowpack in the valleys Point 4 — flashing 4 Flashing — chimney, and where a lower roof meets a wall Point 5 — vent boot 5 Vent boot Point 6 — eaves and ice dams 6 Eaves — ice builds where attic heat escapes

A roof almost never fails in the middle

It fails where it meets something else — a wall, a chimney, a vent, another roof plane, or the open edge at the eave. That is why the first useful question about any leak is not what the shingles look like, but what is nearby.

The work

Ten suburbs, one winter

Ten cities around the Twin Cities — from the postwar ramblers of the north metro to the newest plats out east, all of them working through the same five-month season and the same February.