Pro24 Contracting repairs and replaces roofs, siding, windows and gutters in Farmington. The city has two clearly different housing generations, an old downtown core and a large newer ring around it, and they call for different work. Call 612-235-8696 and we will come look at yours.
A governor once vetoed this town into waiting
Settlement started in Empire Township in the early 1850s. An 1856 newspaper article explained the name plainly: the place was rightly named, it said, because it looked like a village of farms. Farmington tried to incorporate in 1868 and 1869 and got pocket-vetoed by Governor William Marshall, reportedly at the urging of a postmaster who did not want the tax increase. It finally incorporated as a village on February 12, 1872, the second municipality in Dakota County.
A National Register downtown
The Farmington Historic Downtown Commercial District is on the National Register, and the Daniel F. Akin House is listed individually. The Dakota County Fairgrounds and Dakota City Heritage Village, with its twenty-two buildings from the early 1900s, sit here too.
Roof and siding work on a building of that age is about matching what is already there. Original profiles, existing trim reveals and flashing details that were shaped on site. We say up front when a house needs that treatment, because it changes the estimate and it is a bad thing to discover halfway through.
The newer ring, and one build era
Farmington had 5,940 people in 1990. It reached 12,365 by 2000, 21,086 by 2010 and 23,632 by 2020, which is close to a quadrupling in thirty years. The subdivisions from that surge sit out from the old center, and their roofs are bunched into a narrow band of build years.
Roofs bunched like that come due together. If neighbors on your street are getting quotes, yours is likely within a couple of years of the same conversation, and a written condition report now beats an emergency call in February.
Flat farm ground, and the Vermillion River through it
Farmington sits on flat to gently rolling glacial till at about nine hundred feet, which is exactly the ground the 1856 description was talking about. The Vermillion River runs through the city with a trail system along it connecting downtown to the newer neighborhoods.
Open farm ground means the wind reaches these roofs without much in the way. We fasten with six-nail patterns and high-wind-rated shingles on exposed roofs rather than the four-nail minimum, because the rating on the bundle only holds if the roof was nailed to match it.
Storm damage and the claim after it
Dakota County takes its share of hail and wind. We inspect and photograph damage with a reference scale in frame and write it up in a form an adjuster can act on. If a claim is already filed we will meet the adjuster at the house. Our storm damage and insurance claims pages set out how it runs.
Call 612-235-8696 or use the contact page with the address. We also work north of here in Burnsville and in Inver Grove Heights, and the full list of cities is on the service areas page.