Jordan, Minnesota
Insured Asphalt Roofing in Jordan, MN
Down on the Sand Creek valley floor, the old houses in Jordan were built before soffit venting was a thing anyone did. Put a ridge vent on a roof like that with no intake below it and you have made the attic worse, not better. Up on the east side, near 920 feet, the problem flips: those roofs breathe fine and take wind the old core never sees.
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Venting is part of the roof, not an extra
On a closed eave with no soffit to work with, intake has to be created. Depending on the house that means cutting edge vents in above the fascia, or fitting baffles where a knee wall leaves no channel above the insulation, and it gets decided from inside the attic before the estimate is written, not from the driveway. Skip it and the new shingles cook from below and the ice dams come back the first January. The tear-off itself on these houses tends to turn up decades of repairs: tar smeared over a flashing that should have been replaced, and a stack boot fixed with caulk. All of it comes off. Owners who have already done this once and do not want to do it again ask us about metal roofing for the rear slopes, and on a house like that it is worth pricing.
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What an old Jordan roof needs at replacement
Intake cut in where no soffit exists
A house from the 1890s has a closed eave and nowhere for air to enter. Edge vents let into the deck above the fascia give the ridge something to pull from, which is the whole point of venting a roof.
Ice dams treated at the cause
Membrane at the eave manages what a warm deck creates. Fixing the airflow is what stops it happening. On the valley floor houses we do both, because one without the other is half a repair.
Knee walls and half stories accounted for
A story and a half leaves almost no room above the insulation for air to move. Baffles or a different assembly get specified for those slopes rather than pretending a ridge vent will sort it out.
Two elevations, two different specs
Downtown sits near 770 feet and the east side stands about 920. A bluff top roof gets fastening and edge detail built for wind that a sheltered valley block simply does not get.
An old house handled like one
Ladders and staging go off the brick, not against soft lime mortar, and the tear-off comes off in sections rather than landing on the roof in a lump over a plaster ceiling.
Bath fans vented through the roof
Retrofit fans in these houses often just dump into the attic, which soaks the deck from underneath every winter. While the roof is open, that duct gets run out through a proper cap.
How we handle the old core and the bluff
We go in the attic first
The vent scope cannot be written from the ground. We look at the underside of the deck, the depth of the insulation and whether any air is moving, and the estimate follows from that.
Venting written into the scope up front
Whatever intake work the house needs is on the estimate before the first shingle comes off. It is not a phone call from the roof on day two asking for more money.
Narrow downtown streets planned around
Dumpster placement, delivery and where the crew parks get sorted before the day, so a block of buff brick storefronts and one lane of traffic keep working while we do.
The number does not drift
This is a family run and faith based company, and that shows up in the estimate. Nothing changes without us showing you what we found and getting a yes before we carry on.
Intake first, shingles later
If the shingles have years left and the real trouble is intake and insulation, we would rather do that smaller piece now and the roof when it is actually due.
What people near Jordan say
We live in Eden Prairie. Orange did an excellent job on our siding replacement and provided great customer service all the way through.
Thomas DeSutterSiding replacement, Eden Prairie, MN Fantastic guys to work with, did an excellent job of fixing our siding. You can tell it’s a high integrity company. Definitely recommend.
Carolyn MillerSiding repair 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
Roofing questions we hear in Jordan
What people in Jordan ask us about this work. If yours is not covered, call and ask.
My old house in Jordan has no soffit vents. What can you do?
We create intake at the eave. On a closed eave the usual fix is a vent let into the deck just above the fascia, running most of the length of each side, so the ridge vent has somewhere to draw from. Where a knee wall or a shallow rafter leaves no channel above the insulation, baffles go in first.
The last roofer tarred over my flashing. Does that have to come off?
Yes, all of it. Tar smeared across a chimney flashing or a stack collar hides the joint it was covering and holds water against the deck, and no new shingle lies flat over it. At tear off it comes off with everything else, the flashing underneath gets replaced rather than resealed, and you see the spot it was hiding before anything covers it again.
Will a new roof stop the ice dams on a hundred year old house?
Only if the air and the insulation get fixed with it. Ice and water membrane at the eave keeps meltwater out of the house, which matters, but the dam itself is made by heat escaping through the ceiling and warming the deck. Add intake, seal the attic bypasses, and the dam gets smaller every winter.
Get the roof and the venting quoted together
We will come out, get up in the attic, and give you one scope that covers the shingles and the intake, with photographs of what is actually going on above your ceiling.
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