Bloomington roofing for two very different halves of one city

Bloomington is Minnesota's largest suburb, stretched along the Minnesota River in southern Hennepin County, and it is really two cities with two roofing problems. East Bloomington is a dense postwar grid, largely 1950s and 1960s ramblers on modest lots with simple gable roofs. West Bloomington, out around Bush Lake, Hyland and the Normandale corridor, filled in through the 1970s and 1980s with bigger, more complicated houses on wooded lots. Add the commercial spine near the airport and the Mall of America and you have three distinct kinds of work in one city. Roofs R Us has done all three since 2000.

What goes wrong on Bloomington roofs

On the east side, the postwar ramblers are simple roofs that have already been through two or three coverings. The problem is almost never the shape and almost always the air. Those houses predate any real attention to intake at the soffit, and the retrofits since have usually added a ridge vent or a couple of box vents without opening the eave. Exhaust without intake pulls air out of the living space rather than through the attic, which does nothing for the shingles and a lot for the heating bill. It also produces the ice ridge along the front eave every February. Intake gets checked before anything gets quoted on that side of town.

The other east side finding is layered roofs. Plenty of these homes carry two or three courses of shingle stacked on a plank deck. Layers hold heat, hide soft sheathing, and make hail damage far harder for anyone to assess properly. A tear off to bare deck with the soft boards replaced is the only way to know what you are covering.

West Bloomington has the opposite profile. Bigger roof areas, steeper pitches, more valleys, and heavy mature tree cover on the Bush Lake and Hyland side. Those trees shade north slopes into permanent damp, drop litter that packs valleys, and drag limbs across shingles in wind. The 1970s and 1980s builds here also introduced vaulted ceilings and bonus rooms over garages, and those cavities are where Bloomington ice dams begin. There is no real attic above them, so warm air sits against the deck, melts snow from underneath, and the water refreezes at the cold overhang. Baffles, intake and air sealing solve it. More shingles do not.

Storm and hail work in Bloomington

The most useful verified measurement near Bloomington is from July 28, 2025, when the National Weather Service logged a 60 mph gust measured at Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport on the city's eastern edge and a 59 mph gust measured just east of Richfield. Straight line wind in that range lifts and creases tabs on roofs that are otherwise sound, and creasing is the damage homeowners miss because it does not leak right away. Hail is the other exposure, and it is harder to read: it strips granules and can fracture the mat underneath, and that damage does not necessarily announce itself the week of the storm.

Straight line wind in the range this side of the metro sees will lift and crease tabs on roofs that are otherwise sound, and creasing is the damage homeowners miss because it does not leak straight away. Hail is harder to read still. Two roofs on one block can come through the same storm differently, because hardness, wind, product, workmanship and age all feed into it. What shows up afterwards runs from stripped granules through a bruised mat to a torn surface. We inspect free and you keep the photographs.

Roofing services in Bloomington

Roof replacement in Bloomington

A full strip to bare boards, decking swapped wherever it has gone soft, membrane laid at the eaves and in every valley, attic airflow corrected, and an Owens Corning system on top with coverage available to 50 years. We tell you the schedule for your roof when we quote it.

Ice dam removal and the vault problem

Ice comes off with steam rather than a chisel, then we address the cause. On a west Bloomington vault or bonus room that means baffles, soffit intake, and sealing the bypasses feeding warm air into the roof deck.

Roof repair in Bloomington

Wind creased tabs, worn valleys, failed pipe boots and chimney flashing. On the east side there are also plenty of nail pops and older repairs done with sealant where flashing belonged.

Commercial and low slope roofing

Flat and low slope work along the airport and Mall of America corridor, scheduled so the building keeps operating while the roof is replaced.

Seamless gutters sized for the roof

Rolled on site with no joints. The larger west Bloomington roofs usually want six inch trough and oversized downspouts to keep snowmelt off the foundation.

Bloomington neighborhoods and ZIP codes we cover

We work the east Bloomington rambler grid, the Penn and American Boulevard district, the Oxboro and Nine Mile Creek neighborhoods, the wooded streets around Bush Lake, Hyland Park and Normandale, and the commercial corridor toward the airport and the Mall of America. Bloomington mail runs through 55420, 55425, 55431, 55437 and 55438, and we work Richfield, Edina and Eagan right next door.

Get a Bloomington roof estimate

Call (612) 282-8092 or send the form. The look costs nothing, the photo report belongs to you, and the number is locked in writing before work starts. Acorn Finance can carry it at a fixed rate, up to 100,000 dollars and terms out to twenty years, subject to credit approval.