Pro24 Contracting repairs and replaces roofs, siding, windows and gutters in Fridley. We are based in Ham Lake, same county and same highway, so this is regular territory rather than an outlying job. Call 612-235-8696 and we will set an inspection time.
The evening of May 6, 1965
Two F4 tornadoes hit Fridley within two hours of each other. The first touched down at 7:06 in the southwest corner of the city and tracked northeast toward Blaine. The second crossed north Minneapolis into Fridley between 8:14 and 9:02 and kept going through Mounds View to Centerville. The Fridley Terrace trailer park was flattened, the Melody Manor subdivision around 71st and University was largely destroyed, and one in four homes in the city was damaged or destroyed. Golf ball to baseball sized hail fell across the metro on and off from six that evening until midnight.
It is the reason older residents here talk about roofs the way people in other suburbs talk about lawns. This city has already had the argument about what a roof is worth.
A city that filled in and then stopped
Fridley had 3,796 people in 1950, 15,173 in 1960 and 29,233 in 1970. Then it leveled off and stayed there: 30,228 in 1980, 29,590 at the 2020 census, a little over 30,000 today.
That shape matters more than the raw number. The bulk of Fridley's houses went up inside one twenty-year window, which means the roofs, the attic insulation and the ventilation were all specified to the same era's standard and are all coming due around the same time. The question on most houses here is not whether the roof is aging. It is what the last covering was hiding.
Ice dams on a 1960s attic
Attics built through the 1950s and 1960s were insulated and vented to the standard of their day. Warm air leaks up out of the house, melts snow high on the roof, and the meltwater runs down and refreezes at the cold eave until it backs up under the shingles and finds the ceiling.
Heat cable treats the symptom. The repair that holds is air sealing the bypasses in the attic floor, balancing intake and exhaust ventilation so the roof deck actually stays cold, and carrying ice and water shield far enough up from the eave and through the valleys to cover the freeze line. If a Fridley roof is coming off anyway, that is the cheapest moment there will ever be to correct it.
Fridley requires a permit for a reroof
The city requires a building permit for a roof replacement, applied for through its online portal and inspected on the way through. The Building Inspections Division is at 6431 University Ave NE and takes calls at 763-572-3604. Minnesota separately requires a state residential roofer or residential building contractor license for this work on one to four family homes.
We pull the permit and book the inspections. If a bid comes in low because it skips that, the permit is the part being skipped, and it is your address it stays attached to.
Storm damage along the river
Fridley runs about eleven square miles along the Mississippi and borders Minneapolis at its southwest corner, with Rice Creek and the two Moore Lakes inside it. The same systems that cross the north metro cross here. On June 19, 2026 the National Weather Service tracked a swath of hail between an inch and a quarter and an inch and three quarters across Brooklyn Park, Fridley, Roseville and on into the east side of St. Paul.
We inspect and photograph hail and wind damage with a reference scale in frame and write it up in a form an adjuster can act on. If a claim is already open we will meet the adjuster at the house. Our storm damage and insurance claims pages set out how that runs.
Call 612-235-8696 or use the contact page with the address. We work next door in Coon Rapids and Blaine, and every city we cover is listed on the service areas page.