Mounds View roofing starts with an attic that breathes

Mounds View sits at the northern edge of Ramsey County, bounded by Spring Lake Park and Blaine to the north, Shoreview to the east and New Brighton to the south, with Highway 10 and Interstate 35W running through it. It is a compact city built almost entirely between the early 1950s and the early 1970s: ramblers, split entries and small two stories on regular lots, with neighborhoods around Silver Lake, Long Lake and Bel Air. That uniformity is useful, because it means the roofing problems here are consistent and predictable. Roofs R Us has worked Mounds View since 2000. Our shop in Blaine is about ten minutes north.

What makes a Mounds View roof its own job

The city was platted quickly and built out on compact lots, and that geometry still drives the work. Houses sit close together, driveways are short, and there is rarely a clean staging area, so a tear off here needs the dumpster placed thoughtfully and the neighboring property protected before anything comes off. Roof shapes themselves are simple: a straight gable or a shallow hip with short runs and modest square footage. That simplicity is genuinely good news on price. It also means a small roof plane carries a small attic volume above it, and a small attic punishes a ventilation mistake much faster than a large one does.

Additions are the second theme, and they are everywhere on this housing. Over sixty years these homes picked up dormer pops, garage conversions, three season rooms off the back and entry roofs added at the front door. Each of those created a new junction between a new roof plane and an existing wall, and those junctions were very often sealed rather than flashed. Sealant lasts a handful of Minnesota winters. What it leaves behind is water tracking into a rim joist or a wall cavity where nobody looks until the drywall stains.

Third is water on the ground rather than on the roof. Lots near Silver Lake and Long Lake sit low, the grade frequently runs back toward the house, and the original gutters were modest to begin with. Once a downspout backs up, the overflow lands at a foundation that has no room to shed it. Rotted fascia and a damp basement wall often begin as a roof drainage problem two or three seasons earlier. On shallow entry and porch roofs it is worth measuring the pitch before anything else. Asphalt shingles are permitted at 2:12 and steeper. Slopes from 2:12 up to, but not including, 4:12 require double underlayment. Below 2:12, use a roof covering approved for that slope, often a membrane system. Add on sections here regularly sit on the wrong side of that line.

Storm and hail work in Mounds View

Mounds View is named directly in the record. National Weather Service storm reports for July 28, 2025 log a large tree, roughly eighteen inches in diameter, brought down near 85th Avenue and Spring Lake Road in Mounds View. The same evening the NWS logged an eight to ten inch tree snapped north of Coon Rapids and branches broken along Highway 65 north of Blaine. On June 19, 2026 a hail line crossed just south of here and produced measurements from one inch up to two inches through Roseville, Falcon Heights and Little Canada, with half dollar hail at Columbia Heights. Storm reports for June 19, 2026 are public too.

An eighteen inch tree coming down a few blocks away says the wind was real. It does not say what happened to your shingles, and neither does a hail report from the next city. Hail outcomes turn on stone size and hardness, the wind driving them, which product is on the roof, the quality of the original install and the age of the covering. Hardness, wind, the shingle product, the original workmanship and the age of the covering all decide it. What hail leaves ranges from stripped granules through a bruised mat to a torn surface, and most of it is invisible from the yard. Wind mostly leaves creases, which do not leak until they crack through in a later freeze. Both want a set of eyes on the roof. The inspection is free and the photographs are yours.

Roofing services in Mounds View

Soffit, fascia and attic ventilation

On a small attic volume this is the work that decides the roof's life. Reopening intake buried under blown insulation, adding baffles at the eave, and replacing fascia that softened behind a gutter which has been spilling for years.

Roof replacement in Mounds View

Stripped to bare boards so the decking can actually be seen, soft sections swapped, membrane at eaves and valleys, intake and exhaust put right together, then an Owens Corning system registered for coverage to 50 years. A simple roof on a compact lot is a straightforward job, and we tell you the schedule when we quote it.

Roof repair on additions and add on roofs

Dormer pops, three season rooms and entry roofs sealed where they should have been flashed. We open the junction, cut in real step flashing, and put the section back in the system its measured pitch actually calls for.

Ice dam removal

Steam rather than chipping, so the shingles come through it intact. Then the airflow and air sealing work that keeps it from returning next winter.

Seamless gutters and lot drainage

Formed in your driveway with no joints, sized to the roof feeding them, and routed so a low lot near Silver Lake sheds water away from the foundation rather than into it.

Mounds View streets and ZIP codes we cover

We work the neighborhoods around Silver Lake and Long Lake, the Bel Air area, the streets off Highway 10 and County Road H, and the blocks along Silver Lake Road toward New Brighton. Spring Lake Park, Shoreview, New Brighton and Blaine all sit within minutes. Mounds View mail runs through 55112, with 55126 covering the Shoreview side.

Get a Mounds View roof estimate

Call (612) 282-8092 or send the form. The roof gets walked, you keep the photographs, you get a plain answer, and the price is written first. Acorn Finance can spread the cost at a fixed rate up to 100,000 dollars and out to twenty years, subject to credit approval.