St. Paul, Minnesota
Skilled Brava Tile Roofing in St. Paul, MN
Real slate is still on plenty of roofs in St. Paul, and when it finally delaminates the owner has to decide whether the framing under it wants another hundred years of stone. Brava composite tile is the usual answer on Summit Hill and Highland Park: the same multi width slate look, molded color, and a fraction of the weight on a steep streetcar era roof.
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Steep pitches and cut up valleys drive the labor
On a cut up St. Paul roof the tile itself is the simple part. Crews spend their days on the valleys, the shed and gable dormer cheeks, and the short eave returns where a heated knee wall sits inches above a narrow soffit run. That is where ice dams start, so we strip to deck, look at the sheathing under the old slate or asphalt, and run ice and water membrane well past the inside wall line before a single tile goes down. Brava cuts clean on a saw, which matters where valleys stack up. If the house is a designated heritage site or sits inside a local heritage district, Heritage Preservation review comes before the permit, and we plan the color and profile around that. Owners weighing a heavier profile can also look at our clay tile roofing work, though on old frames the lighter composite usually wins.
Brava Tile Roofing in St. Paul
What composite slate does on an old city roof
Slate look, framing friendly weight
Old slate runs heavy on a hundred year old frame. Brava lands closer to asphalt, so a story and a half house takes the same look without a structural review of every rafter.
A profile that suits the district
Multi width slate courses read right next to the originals on Summit Hill. That matters if the house sits in a local heritage district, where what the roof looks like from the street is the whole question.
Membrane past the knee wall
Heated knee wall space sits right above a narrow soffit run on these dormered upper floors. We run ice and water membrane well inside that warm wall line, not just the first course at the eave.
Valleys built for dormer runoff
Shed and gable dormers dump everything into short, cut up valleys. We line them and set the tile courses so water leaves the roof instead of tracking sideways under the field.
Nothing sliding off in a thaw
Real slate delaminates and lets go after enough freeze and thaw cycles, usually over a walk or a porch roof. Composite tile does not spall, so the ground under the eave stays clear.
Steep roof staging earned once
Getting crews and material safely onto a steep Highland Park roof is most of the setup. Doing that once, for a covering meant to stay up for decades, is the argument for tile on these houses.
How we work on St. Paul roofs
We read the deck before pricing
We get into the attic and onto the roof first. Sheathing under old slate is often plank with gaps, and that changes the deck work before any tile is ordered.
We plan around Heritage review
If your address is a designated heritage site or falls in a district, that review comes before the building permit. We build the color and profile choice around it rather than after.
Samples held up on the roof
Color reads differently at forty feet in daylight than it does in your hand. We put the tile on the roof and look at it from the sidewalk with you.
The estimate lists hidden work
Deck repair, membrane coverage, flashing metal and dormer detail are written down before we start, so nothing gets discovered halfway through the tear off.
Free estimate, no pressure after
The estimate is free and there is no obligation attached to it. We are a family run, faith based company out of Eden Prairie, working these older neighborhoods year round.
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St. Paul tile roof questions
What people in St. Paul ask us about this work. If yours is not covered, call and ask.
Does a Brava tile roof need Heritage Preservation review in St. Paul?
If the house is a designated heritage site or sits inside a local heritage district, yes. Heritage Preservation review happens before the city issues a building permit, and it looks at what the roof will look like from the street. We choose the profile and color with that in mind and get the paperwork moving early, but the decision belongs to the commission.
Can a 1920s St. Paul house carry composite tile without new framing?
Almost always. Brava weighs a fraction of what real slate or clay does, close enough to asphalt that the existing rafters are not usually the issue. What we do check is the sheathing. Plank decks with wide gaps, or boards softened by an old leak at a dormer valley, get replaced before tile goes down.
Will a new tile roof stop the ice dams over my dormers?
No, and any roofer who says otherwise is selling. Ice dams come from heat leaving the house into the roof deck, which on these upper floors means the knee wall space above a narrow soffit. Tile with proper membrane keeps the backed up water out of the ceiling. Fixing the dam itself means air sealing, insulation and venting.
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Tell us the block and the roof, dormers, valleys, whatever is failing up there. We will come out, get on the roof, and put numbers to it. Free, and no obligation.
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