Posts Tagged ‘cedar roofing company’
Friday, June 16th, 2017
How to replace a tasty lead cap with galvanized steel The Problem: What is it with squirrels and roofs? They can’t seem to keep their teeth off them. We inspect hundreds of cedar roofs in the Twin Cities area each year. Time after time we find the same types of damage. Lead cap plumbing vent […]
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Posted in Animal Damage, Roof repairs, Roofing, Uncategorized
Friday, April 28th, 2017
What is a Kickout Flashing and Why Do I Need One? The Problem: For example you have just had your home inspected and someone says you need kickout flashings. With this in mind what exactly is a kickout flashing and what does it do? Kickout flashings: Required by Minnesota Building Code, the purpose of a kickout […]
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Posted in Roof Leak, Roof repairs, Roof Restoration, Roofing, Uncategorized
Friday, March 31st, 2017
Stucco Home in Eden Prairie Has Damage That Needed Fixing The Problem:A leaking stucco chimney. The cap of the original chimney had a sloped mortar core with a top coat of stucco (portland cement). Bad idea. We don’t like stucco to be used on horizontal surfaces unless particular steps are taken. Water was leaking down into the […]
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Posted in Chimney Repair, Roof repairs, Roofing, Uncategorized
Friday, March 17th, 2017
Minneapolis hail storms leaves clear evidence behind This is an impact mark from a .75” hail stone on a 3 year old medium hand-split cedar shake roof in Edina, Minnesota. Such hail frequently causes severe damage to cedar shake and shingle roofs. In this case the wood was resilient enough to escape with only a […]
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Posted in Roof repairs, Roofing, Storm damage Repairs, Uncategorized
Friday, January 27th, 2017
Cedar Roof Cleaning Expert Rescues Excelsior Homeowner from Other ‘Expert’ The Backstory: Upon the advice of her realtor, our client hired a roof washing franchise to wash her cedar shake roof. She was about to put her house on the market and a moss-free roof would be a nice touch. The company she hired specialized […]
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Posted in Roof repairs, Roof Restoration, Roofing, Roofing costs and average prices, Uncategorized
Friday, December 23rd, 2016
Fixing a Leaking Chimney, Replacing a Cedar Roof The Problem: This is the community building owned by an exclusive neighborhood association in Orono. For years different roofers were hired to address the leaking chimney (A), only to ultimately fail in their attempts. Their answer, caulk and tar (B). Here is the pesky leak as seen […]
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Posted in Chimney Repair, Roof Leak, Roof repairs, Roofing, Uncategorized
Friday, December 9th, 2016
Remodeling a Bumpout Window With a Bad Leak in Minnetonka The Problem: Imagine you have a window bumpout like the one here (below). The builder was running a little thin on his margin so he skimped on a few details. Now 13 years later, you have rotten siding, soggy millwork, and a roof that leaks. […]
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Posted in Roof repairs, Roof Restoration, Roofing, Roofing costs and average prices, Uncategorized
Friday, November 25th, 2016
Cedar Roof Cleaning Franchise Perpetrates Another Bad Roof Renew Job in Orono The Problem: We lose a hand-full of cedar roof restoration jobs each season to a competitor that likes to include “50 or so” shake replacements in their bid, regardless of the roofs age or condition. It’s extra frustrating when we are called back to […]
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Friday, October 28th, 2016
Roofing Contractor Uses Designers and Carpenters to Help Wayzata Commercial Roofing Client The Problem: We had worked on Craig’s residence a few times over the past fifteen years. He invited us to give him a bid on one of his commercial properties. It had a tired cedar shingle roof with dated treatments around each window. […]
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Posted in Roof repairs, Roof Restoration, Roofing, Roofing costs and average prices, Uncategorized
Friday, October 7th, 2016
Repair Your Chimney or Enhance the Look of Your Exterior The Problem Your chimney is failing, it looks like this, and someone wants $3,200 to fix it. Ouch. The Solution Hire someone with experienced designers on staff who know the difference between concepts like Cotswold and Tudor. It would have been easy enough to simply […]
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Posted in Chimney Repair, Roof repairs, Roofing, Roofing costs and average prices, Uncategorized
Wednesday, September 7th, 2016
Creative Remodeling Contractor Finds Solution to Odd Problem The Problem: A cedar roof restoration client of ours had an old oak tree that added tremendous character to her property. The problem was that over years the heavy limb (right) sank lower and lower and our client kept buying higher and higher vehicles. She couldn’t stand the […]
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Posted in Roof Restoration, Roofing, Uncategorized
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2016
Edina Homeowner Needed Help With This Unusual Handyman Project The Problem: You live on Minnehaha Creek and have this great idea. “I’m going to buy a 400 pound wooden bear”. And then your spouse finds out. Best to get it securely installed so you can start harvesting the praise you’ll need to defend your decision. […]
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Friday, August 12th, 2016
Minneapolis Chimneys Need Caps No Matter What…Here’s Why. The Problem: Is Mother Nature giving your chimney a frost wedgie? We’ve seen it hundreds of times around the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. A masonry chimney with one damaged clay flue and one pristine flue. Most people might assume that the flue that gets used frequently might fail sooner […]
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Posted in Chimney Repair, Masonry, Roof repairs, Roofing, Uncategorized
Friday, July 15th, 2016
How Using a Roof Rake Can Make Ice Dam Problems Much, Much Worse The Problem: You learned your lesson in the winter of 2011 with the epic ice dam outbreak that hit Minnesota. You read up that removing snow from your roof will prevent ice dams. Ice dams get their fuel (i.e., water) from the […]
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Posted in Ice Dam, Ice dams, Insulation, Roof Leak, Roof repairs, Roofing, Roofing costs and average prices, Uncategorized
Friday, July 1st, 2016
Save on Heating Bills and Reduce the Likelihood of Ice Dams in the Twin Cities There are two ways of sealing recessed lights and there are advantages and disadvantages of both. Sealing Recessed Lights Advantages Cheap and fast Blocks warm from leaking through the gap between the fixture body and the ceiling drywall. Disadvantages Does […]
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Friday, June 24th, 2016
Minneapolis Cedar Roof Expert Gives Examples of Cedar Roof Repairs We are often asked about how cedar shake repairs will look compared to the surrounding roof. Here are a bunch of examples of projects where we repaired cedar shake roofs and the differing degrees color variation between new and old cedar materials. If a near […]
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Posted in Roof Leak, Roof repairs, Roof Restoration, Roofing, Uncategorized
Wednesday, May 18th, 2016
Repair or Replace Your Roof…Start First with an Honest Roofing Contractor The Problem: At some point in the life of your roof, regardless what type it is, there will be a time when fixing a few problematic spots will stretch out its remaining life by a few years. You can call a standard roofer, but […]
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Posted in Roof repairs, Roof Restoration, Roofing
Thursday, May 12th, 2016
Staining Your Cedar Shake Roof is Not a Great Idea…Here is Why The Problem: Your neighbor just had some stuff sprayed on his roof and it looks pretty spiffy. It looks almost like a new roof! But here is the problem with pigmented products when applied to cedar shakes: they fade in irregular patterns after […]
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Posted in Roof repairs, Roof Restoration, Roofing, Roofing costs and average prices, Uncategorized