Andover, Minnesota
Complete EPDM Roofing in Andover, MN
The first warm week of April is when the calls start: an owner walks the flat roof behind the parking lot in Andover, finds the winter ponding finally gone and a lap lifted open where the rubber shrank back all season, and realizes that membrane went down when the building was new. Orange Exteriors installs, recovers and repairs EPDM across Anoka County, and we answer the phone at any hour.
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Thirty Years On From Andover's First Rubber
Andover built out fast through the 1980s and 1990s, and the low slope roofs that went up with those contractor shops, small office blocks and municipal outbuildings were almost all black EPDM. Thirty some years later the field membrane is often still watertight while the details have quietly given up: shrinkage pulling at the perimeter, laps sealed with early adhesives now open at the ends, pitch pockets dried hard, and curb flashings cracked by decades of Anoka County temperature swing. So the honest first question here is not replacement, it is whether the rubber is dry underneath. When the insulation tests dry and the deck is solid, a fully adhered or mechanically attached recover over the old sheet spares everyone below the mess of a full tear off, and on some Andover roofs roof coatings make more sense than either. We take cores, map the wet areas and tell you plainly which of the three your building actually needs.
EPDM Roofing in Andover
What New EPDM Changes For An Andover Building
Shrinkage That Stops Pulling At The Edges
Thirty years of contraction has drawn the old sheet back from its terminations, which is what opens laps at the ends first. New rubber set with primer and cured cover tape starts square and holds its dimensions at the perimeter.
Puncture Resistance Under Dying Oaks
Oak wilt keeps thinning the bur and northern pin oaks standing over rooflines here, and dead limbs land hard on rubber. We spec a heavier membrane and add walkway pad beneath the obvious drop zones.
Crickets And Taper Behind The Curbs
Ponding is what ends an EPDM roof early. We reslope with tapered insulation, set crickets behind curbs and open the drains and scuppers so March meltwater leaves rather than sitting on the seams.
Less Downtime Inside The Building
A recover keeps the deck covered every night, so whoever works under it stays open. No dust dropping through the ceiling grid, no bare roof over inventory, no weather scramble halfway through the job.
Abandoned Curbs And Conduit Dealt With
Most Andover low slope roofs carry rooftop units, gas lines, exhaust curbs and abandoned conduit stands. Penetrations are where leaks begin, so we rebuild each one with target patches and pourable sealer.
Every Detail Photographed As Built
We photograph the cores, the deck condition and every finished detail, which is exactly what an adjuster wants when the next Anoka County hail or straight line wind event turns into a claim.
Why Andover Owners Call Orange Exteriors
Cores Answer It, Not The Calendar
A thirty year old rubber roof gives up very little from the ladder. We cut cores, check whether the insulation is wet, and give you a recover or tear off answer backed by what came out of the roof.
Staging Built For Andover Acreage
Large parts of Andover are still unsewered rural residential on lots near two and a half acres, with gravel drives, private wells and septic fields. We plan crane and dumpster placement so nothing heavy crosses a drainfield.
Our Office Picks Up Overnight
We are open twenty four hours, seven days. If a seam splits during a January cold snap or a limb comes through the membrane overnight, our Eden Prairie office picks up and gets a dry in crew moving.
Family Run, And We Answer For It
Orange Exteriors is family run and faith based, licensed and insured, rated 5.0 from 217 Google reviews. Nobody hands your Andover job off to a crew that never saw the cores come out.
Damage Shown Detail By Detail
Wind and hail claims on low slope roofs get denied over vague documentation. We meet your adjuster on the roof, show the damage detail by detail, and write the scope in language a carrier will accept.
What people near Andover say
Orange Exteriors fixed a minor leak that involved replacing flashing and a few shingles blown off our roof. Timely, quality work. Great ideas to keep our roof going long term.
Jim ThomasStorm damage repair From sales to construction crew to upper management, they helped make an insurance battle a breeze. This is the best contractor interaction I have ever had.
Jim NormanRoof replacement Orange Exteriors did an excellent job with my new roofing install. Very professional, on time and hard working crew. Completed the job in one day.
Dick JohnsonRoof installation
EPDM Questions From Andover
What people in Andover ask us about this work. If yours is not covered, call and ask.
Is the rubber on my Andover building likely to be original?
Most of Andover's low slope commercial stock went up during the growth years of the late 1980s and the 1990s, so the rubber over it is commonly thirty to thirty five years old. Field membrane that age can still be sound while the perimeter, laps and curb flashings are completely finished. We core the roof to tell those two conditions apart.
When is a tear off unavoidable on an Andover roof?
It depends on moisture. If the cores come back dry and the deck is solid, a recover over the existing EPDM is usually the right call in Andover, and it keeps the building covered every single night. If the insulation is saturated, or two roof systems are already stacked up there, code and common sense both point to a tear off.
Do modern seam tapes handle the swing better than 1990s adhesives?
Yes, and it is why older Andover roofs fail at the edges first. The sheet contracts hard in subzero weather and relaxes again in July heat, pulling at every lap and termination bar season after season. Modern seam tapes over properly primed rubber handle that cycling far better than the adhesives used on 1990s installations.
Have Your Andover Roof Cored First
Call (612) 600-8529 any hour, any day. We will core your Andover roof, photograph the details, and put a recover scope and a tear off scope in front of you, free and with nothing owed if you decide to wait a season.
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Tell us what is going on with your roof, siding, windows, or gutters. We will take a look and give you a straight answer, including when the answer is that you can wait.
- Phone(612) 600-8529
- Emailadmin@orange-exteriors.com
- Office6600 City West Pkwy Suite 375, Eden Prairie, MN 55344
- HoursOpen 24 hours, Sunday to Saturday
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