Victoria, Minnesota
Quality Cedar Shake Roofing in Victoria, MN
Reaching the roof at all is the first problem on plenty of the houses we work on in Victoria, where walkout and lookout levels are common on rolling ground. An eave at a comfortable height out front can be two stories up at the back. Cedar moves by hand, a bundle at a time, so where the crew can set staging decides how the whole job runs.
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Access and tree cover drive this job
The city's tree preservation ordinance, adopted in 1996, protects significant trees of eight caliper inches or more, and that is not something to discover on tear off morning. We walk the lot first and plan where the dumpster, the lift and the bundles go without dropping a limb or compacting roots inside a drip line. On a wooded walkout it often means carrying cedar up from the low side. The trees matter to the roof itself. A Victoria lot can have a bright south plane above the walkout and a north plane that never leaves the shade, and cedar behaves like two different roofs on one house. We grade each plane before quoting. Hail is the argument against cedar here: the August 9, 2020 storms put tennis ball hail on Victoria, bigger than most of the metro saw. If that decides you, our asphalt roofing page covers what a cedar look alike gives up.
Cedar Shake Roofing in Victoria
Cedar detailed for hillside lots and big trees
Staging planned around the walkout
A roof edge two stories above a sloped back yard is not a ladder job. We plan the lift placement and the tie off points before the first bundle arrives, so nobody is improvising on a hillside.
Protected trees stay protected
Significant trees on the lot are covered by city ordinance, and roots under a drip line do not enjoy a loaded truck. We keep equipment on the drive and haul by hand where we have to.
Snow guards over decks and doors
Walkout houses put doors, decks and stairs directly under a roof edge. Where a plane dumps onto one, we set guards so a winter slab of snow and ice does not come off all at once.
Broken shakes swapped, not the whole roof
Tennis ball hail cracks shakes in patches rather than everywhere. Where the field is sound we pull and replace the broken ones course by course, weave the new shakes in and leave the rest alone.
One roof, two exposures
On this rolling ground the same house can have a plane in full sun and a plane under oaks all day. We spec exposure, spacing and ventilation for each rather than one number for the whole roof.
Valleys sized for trees that stay
Nobody clears a lot like this to save a roof, so the valley has to carry what the oaks and maples drop every fall. We run the metal wide and hold the shake ends back clean, so litter washes down instead of damming against wood.
How a hillside job actually runs
The lot walk comes before the price
Grade, tree line and where a lift can sit all change the labor. We look at that before quoting, so hillside access is in the number instead of arriving later as a change order.
Nothing left in the grass
Cedar tear off throws shakes and nails a long way down a slope. We tarp the fall line, sweep with magnets and walk the low ground before we call it done.
Bundles do not sit in the weather
Cedar that soaks on the ground before it goes up will move once it is nailed. We time delivery to the tear off rather than dropping pallets on the lot a week early.
We flag the tree work early
If limbs have to come back off the roof, we tell you which ones and why before the ordinance question comes up, so you can line up an arborist while we schedule.
An access plan you keep
A cedar roof needs looking at every few years, and on a walkout that is not a stepladder job. We note where a ladder actually sets safely and leave that with you.
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Questions we get on Victoria roofs
What people in Victoria ask us about this work. If yours is not covered, call and ask.
Will the tree ordinance in Victoria hold up my roof job?
Not usually. The ordinance protects significant trees, eight caliper inches and up, and it is mostly a staging question for a roof: where the dumpster sits, where a lift can track, whether roots inside a drip line get loaded. We plan around it during the estimate so the schedule does not move because of a tree.
Is cedar a bad idea in Victoria given the hail we get?
It is a real consideration. Victoria caught tennis ball hail on August 9, 2020, and stones that size split shakes outright. Cedar can be repaired in patches, which asphalt cannot always be, but on a heavily exposed roof in a hail corridor it is fair to ask whether an impact rated material is the better bet. We will lay out both.
Can you get a cedar roof onto a walkout without wrecking the yard?
Yes, with planning. Most of the damage on a sloped lot comes from driving equipment across soft ground. We stage on the drive, run plywood where wheels have to cross turf, tarp the fall line below the tear off and haul bundles by hand on the low side. It takes longer and it leaves the lawn intact.
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We will walk the grade, the tree line and every roof plane, then tell you what a cedar roof on your Victoria house takes to do right. Free estimate, no obligation.
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