Plymouth, Minnesota
Careful Metal Roofing in Plymouth, MN
Debris is what makes the case for metal on a wooded lot in Plymouth, and the roofline is what complicates it. These plans are cut up: multiple valleys, dormers, a prominent front gable and hips running in three directions. Standing seam is at its best on long simple planes, and this is the opposite of that. It can still be the right roof here, for reasons that have more to do with what falls out of the trees than with panel runs.
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What the trees do to a valley
On a Bass Lake or Medicine Lake house the roof spends half the year under something. Needles and leaves pack into the valleys, hold water against the deck and rot it out from underneath, which is exactly where we find soft sheathing when we tear these roofs off. An open metal valley lets that debris wash through instead of trapping it, and on a shaded lot that is the strongest thing metal has going for it. The roofline is the argument on the other side. Valleys, headwalls and dormer cheeks are each hand-bent metal and each a place water can get in, so a chopped roof takes hours a simple one never does. Sometimes the honest answer is metal on the front gable and porch with asphalt behind. For a different conversation, our luxury roofing sits at the top end of what we install on houses like these.
Metal Roofing in Plymouth
What metal fixes on a cut-up roofline
An open valley instead of a woven one
A shingle valley is woven shut and gives needles something to hook on. Metal valley pans are formed and left open, so what the trees drop travels down and out with the water rather than composting against the deck all fall.
Nothing for damp shade to eat
Roofs under mature trees stay wet longer and grow moss along the north side. A metal panel gives that growth nothing to root into and sheds the damp faster once the sun does reach it.
Metal where it earns its keep
On some houses we put standing seam on the front gable, the porch and the lower roofs, and keep asphalt behind. You get the look and the wear where it counts, without paying for panel runs measured in feet.
Deck checked at every valley
Soft sheathing hides under valley metal and nobody sees it until tear-off. We probe and cut back to sound wood at each valley before panels go on, since metal will not bridge a spongy deck.
The gutters still need thinking about
Metal moves debris off the plane faster than shingles do, which means more of it arrives in the gutter. On a lot with mature trees we look at gutter size and screening as part of the roof, not as something to sort out next spring.
Clearance from overhanging limbs
Branches that rub a panel will wear the finish and drop debris right back into the valley you just cleared. We flag which limbs need trimming before the roof goes on.
Our approach to a complicated roof
We clear the roof before we look at it
In October a wooded roof is under an inch of needles and nothing about the valleys or the flashing is visible. We blow it off before we look, because a quote written over a layer of debris is a guess dressed up as a number.
We will tell you to keep asphalt
If your roofline chops metal into short runs and the value is not there, we say so. Talking someone out of a metal roof happens more often on this side of the county.
We bend trim on site
Valley, headwall and rake metal gets formed to the angles actually on your roof. Stock pieces almost fit, and almost fitting is how water gets behind a piece of flashing.
We walk the roof with photos
Before anything is quoted you see what the valleys look like, where the deck feels soft and what the flashing is doing. Most homeowners have never seen their own roof up close.
We quote both ways
You get standing seam and a good asphalt system written up side by side, so the comparison is yours to make rather than ours. Both estimates are free and neither obligates you.
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Cut-up rooflines, common questions
What people in Plymouth ask us about this work. If yours is not covered, call and ask.
My Plymouth roof has six valleys. Is standing seam still worth it?
It depends on where you put it. Every valley, hip and dormer wall adds hand-bent flashing and cuts panels into short runs, so a chopped roofline costs more per square than a simple one. Many owners here put metal on the front gable and porch, where it is seen and where debris collects, and keep asphalt on the rest.
Do pine needles and leaves cause trouble on a metal roof?
Less than on shingles, but they do not disappear. Debris still gathers at the bottom of a valley and behind a chimney, and a shaded roof stays damp longer. Metal gives it a slick surface to move on and no rough texture to grip, so a rinse or a blower pass once a year usually keeps things clear.
Can standing seam go over the shingles already on my house?
We do not do it that way. Everything comes off so we can see the deck, and on Plymouth houses the deck under the valleys is the part most likely to be soft. Covering wet sheathing with metal traps the problem instead of ending it. Clips also need sound wood, not shingle layers, to hold in wind.
Have us look at your valleys
We will get on the roof, photograph the valleys and flashing and tell you whether standing seam suits this roofline or only part of it. Free, and nothing to sign.
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