Pro24 Contracting repairs and replaces roofs, siding, windows and gutters on North Oaks homes. Work here usually starts one of two ways. A storm crosses the Shoreview and White Bear Lake corridor and an owner needs the damage documented before an adjuster arrives, or a rambler near Pleasant Lake is finally past its second roof and the owner wants a plan instead of another patch. We come by appointment, because the roads are private and nobody should be knocking on your door unannounced. Call 612-235-8696 and we will set a time.
ASC approval comes before the city permit
North Oaks is a private city, and the North Oaks Home Owners' Association reviews exterior changes through its Architectural Supervisory Committee. Roofing, siding and window replacement need that approval before the city will issue a building permit. We prepare the submission with you: product data sheets, color selections and elevations, filed ahead of the permit application so the schedule holds. Owners who skip the step usually find out the hard way, with materials on site and no approval on file.
Private roads, and you own to the middle of them
Every homeowner in North Oaks owns to the centerline of the road, and NOHOA holds the easements over roughly fifty to sixty miles of private pavement. That changes how a tear-off gets staged. Dumpster placement, delivery weight, truck routes and where the crew parks are all decisions about your pavement and your neighbors', not a public street. We plan the staging before the first bundle arrives, protect the drive, and sweep for fasteners at the end of each working day rather than at the end of the job.
It also means storm chasers cannot legally work this city. Uninvited solicitors on North Oaks roads are trespassing and can be ticketed. If somebody knocked on your door after a hailstorm, that tells you something about them.
Hail, wind and the claim that follows
Ramsey County sits in Minnesota's hail belt, and North Oaks sits in the part of it that keeps getting hit. The May 2022 outbreak worked across the region. On June 9 and 10, 2026, the National Weather Service documented wind and tree damage running from St. Paul through Shoreview and White Bear Lake, with hail measured up to 2.5 inches. That corridor brackets this city on both sides.
Hail bruising is often invisible from the ground, and it is easier to miss on a lot where the drive never gives you a clean look at the field of shingles. We inspect, photograph strikes with a reference measurement in frame, and write it up so an adjuster can act on it. If you have already filed, we will meet the adjuster at the house. Our storm damage and insurance claims pages set out how the process runs.
Shaded roofs hold snow, and then they hold ice
The low density district here has a minimum lot of an acre and a quarter, and the community was planned around the oaks rather than through them. A roof screened by mature trees holds snow longer, dries slower after rain, and collects needles and leaf litter in the valleys and behind chimneys. Ice dams follow, particularly on the original 1950s and 1960s houses whose attic insulation and ventilation were built to a different standard. What fixes it is air sealing the attic bypasses, getting intake and exhaust ventilation to actually balance, and carrying ice and water shield far enough up from the eave and through the valleys. Heat cable only treats the symptom.
Original houses and newer ones are different jobs
Building started around 1950 on what had been James J. Hill's North Oaks Farm, so the oldest stock is ramblers, split levels and midcentury moderns, most of them on the lake side near Pleasant Lake. Those long low rooflines are straightforward to work on and unforgiving about detail: wide eaves, shallow pitches on some spans, and original flashing that has been painted over more than once. The newer side of town asks for something else. Rapp Farm on the northeast edge, Anderson Woods, East Oaks, the Villas of Wilkinson Lake, Spring Farm, Hill Farm and The Pines bring steeper pitches, more valleys and mixed materials. We quote both, and the scope reads differently for each.
To get an inspection on the calendar, call 612-235-8696 or use the contact page. We work next door in Dellwood as well, and the full list of cities is on the service areas page.