St. Paul, Minnesota
Licensed PVC Roofing in St. Paul, MN
Fryer exhaust runs ten hours a day above a restaurant on the commercial edge of Summit Hill, and the membrane around that fan curb softens first. Grease is the roofing problem nobody budgets for in St. Paul, and it is exactly what a PVC membrane is mixed to shrug off. Orange Exteriors welds PVC commercial roofs onto kitchens, processors and light industrial buildings across Ramsey County: family run, faith based, licensed and insured, and reachable at any hour of any day.
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What Grease Does to a St. Paul Storefront Roof
Most low slope roofs in St. Paul sit behind a storefront parapet or on the flat rear addition tacked onto a building whose street side still carries streetcar era pitch and dormers. Those roofs are small, crowded and awkward to reach, with exhaust fans, makeup air units, refrigeration lines and grease ducts all landing inside a few hundred square feet. Animal fat and kitchen exhaust residue soften and swell many membranes over the seasons, which is why a bakery, a butcher shop or a commissary kitchen gets a different recommendation than a dry storage building. Where the discharge is oily or chemically aggressive we weld PVC. Where it is not, we quote EPDM roofing instead and say so plainly. Knowing which of those two buildings you own is most of what our estimate is for.
PVC Roofing in St. Paul
What a Welded PVC Roof Does for a St. Paul Kitchen
Butcher and Bakery Fats Handled
Animal fat from a meat case exhaust or a bakery oven vent softens membranes that were never mixed for it. PVC keeps its chemistry under that load, so the stained ring downwind of your fan stops being an annual repair line.
Rinse Water and Solvent Vapor
Plating rinse, solvent vapor and processing exhaust chew through ordinary roofing. PVC holds up to that chemistry, so light industrial buildings out toward Lake Phalen get years of service instead of one patch after another.
Every Curb Reflashed by Hand
A St. Paul storefront roof can carry a dozen penetrations in a few hundred square feet. Each grease duct, condenser and vent gets its own welded flashing rather than a bead of sealant that has to be redone every spring.
The Settled Corner Finally Drains
Rear additions on older commercial buildings sink over a century, and water parks in the low corner. Tapered insulation under the new membrane rebuilds the slope so the roof empties toward the drain instead of holding a pond.
Ice That Lingers in the Shade
Downtown roofs shaded by taller neighbors hold snow and ice long after the open field has cleared. Fused laps and sealed terminations give that slow melt nowhere to work its way in as it refreezes overnight.
Light Enough for an Old Deck
A single ply system adds very little weight to a plank deck built in the 1890s, so most buildings take a new roof without structural work. We look at the deck first and say plainly if it needs help before anything else.
How We Run a Job on a St. Paul Block
Heritage Review Comes First
When a building is a designated heritage site or sits in a local heritage district, review comes before the city issues a building permit. We file early and plan the calendar around that review instead of running into it.
Staging From a Narrow Alley
Downtown blocks have no lay down space. We size deliveries to what the alley and the sidewalk permit allow, keep the dumpster off your customer entrance, and clear the loading zone before your deliveries arrive.
We Will Talk You Out of PVC
Not every low slope roof in Ramsey County needs a grease resistant membrane. If your discharge is clean, we say so and price the simpler assembly, which is an easy conversation when the estimate costs you nothing.
Grease Duct Work Coordinated
Hood ducts and fans often have to come off and go back before the membrane can be finished. We book that with your hood cleaning contractor so nobody is standing on the roof waiting on somebody else.
On Ramsey County Roofs Weekly
We work out of Eden Prairie and are on St. Paul and Maplewood buildings most weeks, so a service call is a short drive. Family run, faith based, licensed and insured, rated 5.0 across 217 Google reviews.
What people near St. Paul say
The crew arrived early and spread tarps all around the house to capture every bit of debris. By 3:00 PM, my entire roof was completely finished.
Hazel JamesRoof replacement, Minneapolis, MN 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
St. Paul PVC Roofing Questions
What people in St. Paul ask us about this work. If yours is not covered, call and ask.
Does a butcher shop roof need different detailing than a fryer kitchen roof?
The chemistry differs. Animal fat from meat and bakery exhaust is heavier and cooler when it lands, so it builds a film close to the curb, while fryer vapor drifts farther before it settles. Both attack the wrong membrane, but they change where we thicken the flashing and how wide we run the welded target patches around each fan. We read the plume pattern on your existing roof before writing the detail plan.
What does all the rooftop equipment on a St. Paul storefront add to the job?
Time, mostly. An open field of membrane goes down quickly. A few hundred square feet crowded with grease ducts, condensers, makeup air and refrigeration lines has to be flashed by hand, curb by curb, and that hand work is the slow part of any schedule. It is also where nearly every leak we get called about started, so it is the last place to save hours.
Do the rooftop grease ducts have to come off to reroof around them?
Usually the fans and some duct sections do, because a proper welded curb flashing cannot be tucked under equipment that stays bolted down. We coordinate the lift and reset with your hood cleaning contractor, do that work outside service hours, and never leave a duct opening uncovered overnight. Buildings where equipment truly cannot move get a compromise detail, and we tell you that up front rather than after.
Get Your St. Paul Roof Quoted
Send us the address and tell us what vents onto the roof. We will walk it, check every curb and termination, say whether PVC or something simpler fits the building, and put it in writing at no cost. Call (612) 600-8529 at any hour.
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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
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- Office6600 City West Pkwy Suite 375, Eden Prairie, MN 55344
- HoursOpen 24 hours, Sunday to Saturday
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