Jordan, Minnesota
Licensed Metal Roofing in Jordan, MN
Ventilation decides most metal roof jobs in Jordan, more than wind or hail does. The houses on the Sand Creek valley floor were framed before anyone built a soffit vent, and a steel panel over an unvented deck will sweat on its underside all winter. Up on the east side near 920 feet the problem flips to wind. Two towns, one street map.
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Venting comes before the panels do
On the old core, tearing off is the easy part. What takes the conversation is intake air. Those houses have narrow eaves, no soffit vents and often blown insulation packed to the roof deck, so before we set a single panel we work out whether the attic can be vented properly or whether the assembly has to be built to run without it, with a high temperature underlayment and a sealed deck. Skip that and the first cold snap prints frost on the underside of the steel. Downtown, in the historic district, standing seam is a period correct roof on those buff brick buildings, and it sheds onto a public sidewalk, so snow retention is not optional. Owners of the larger homes on the bluff sometimes ask us about luxury roofing and how metal compares on that kind of house.
Metal Roofing in Jordan
What steel does for an old Jordan roof
Air moving under the steel
A panel over a sealed, unvented attic collects frost on its underside every cold snap. We either open intake and ridge venting properly or build the assembly to run without an air space, deliberately.
Snow held above the sidewalk
Downtown buildings drop straight onto public walkways. Retention bars along the eave keep a winter release from landing on the sidewalk below, which matters more on the district block than it does out on a farm.
Ice pressure off narrow eaves
Valley floor houses have short overhangs and warm decks, so ice builds at the edge. Metal plus a full ice barrier at the eave gets water over the edge instead of backing it up into the wall.
A profile that suits the block
Standing seam is a period appropriate roof on nineteenth century buff brick. We keep rib spacing and color in step with the district instead of putting a farm building panel on a historic storefront.
Chimneys that could come out instead
Plenty of these houses carry a tall brick chimney that nothing has vented through in forty years. If yours is out of use, we will say so, because a stack nobody needs is just a joint in the roof waiting to be maintained forever.
Underlayment rated for what sits on it
Steel gets hot and holds it, and a standard felt under a dark panel does not enjoy that for long. We run a high temperature underlayment made for metal, which matters more here than usual because on some of these attics it is the last layer standing between the panel and the plaster.
The way we work on these houses
We fix the attic before the roof
Metal on a bad attic is a moisture problem waiting to happen. We look at intake, insulation depth and bath fans first, and say plainly what has to change.
We work with the district review
Buildings in the Jordan Historic District come with expectations about how a roof looks from the street. We plan the profile and color with that in mind rather than after the fact.
We keep the door downstairs open
On a downtown building the shop below still has to trade while we are up there. We protect the entry, keep the walk in front of it clear and bring the old roof down where customers are not standing.
Family run and faith based
We are a family business and we work like one. That shows up in how we talk to an owner about an old house, and in what we are willing to recommend against.
We roof the commercial buildings too
Along with houses we do commercial low slope roofing and metal buildings, so a shop or storefront downtown is not an odd job for us to take on.
What people near Jordan 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
Jordan metal roofing questions
What people in Jordan ask us about this work. If yours is not covered, call and ask.
Will a metal roof sweat in an old Jordan house with no soffit vents?
It can, and that is the thing to solve first. Warm indoor air reaching a cold steel panel condenses on the underside and drips into the insulation. On the valley floor houses we either create real intake at the eave and exhaust at the ridge, or build a sealed assembly designed to work without an attic air space.
Will an 1880s house carry a metal roof?
Almost always, and usually more comfortably than what is up there now. Steel panel weighs less than the asphalt that comes off, so the roof gets lighter, not heavier. What we do look at on a house this old is what earlier layers already did to the framing, and whether a rafter or a ridge has taken a set. That is a look in the attic, not a reason to rule metal out.
Our building has a flat section at the back. Can that be part of the same job?
Yes. We do commercial low slope work alongside the residential side, so a seamed panel on the front and a membrane over the flat back section can be one job with one crew and one person answerable for the joint between them. That joint is the part worth getting right, and it is the part that goes wrong when two outfits meet in the middle of a roof.
Start with the attic, then the metal
Have us out to look at the venting and the deck on your Jordan house before you decide on a roof. The estimate is free and we will tell you what we find.
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