Pro24 Contracting repairs and replaces roofs, siding, windows and gutters on St. Paul houses. This is old-city work, and most of what makes it different from a suburban reroof is the age of the housing and the rules attached to it. Call 612-235-8696 and we will come out and look.
Most of the single-family stock predates 1930
The first land claim here was made in 1838, the settlement took its name from a log chapel built in 1841, and the city incorporated on March 4, 1854. It has been the state capital since 1858. The 2020 census counted 311,527 people, second in Minnesota after Minneapolis, across roughly 134,000 housing units.
St. Paul's own 2018 housing inventory found the median residential building here was 69 years old, and that 57 percent of the city's single-family, duplex and triplex structures were built before 1930, with the 1920s alone accounting for a fifth of them. On a house that old the roof is rarely the only question. Decking nailed through four times, flashing painted over for decades, hand-detailed chimney and wall transitions, and attics never vented to a modern standard all come up once the shingles are off. We would rather find them on the estimate than on a change order.
Victorians, foursquares and bungalows with dormers
Summit Avenue holds the most concentrated collection of intact Victorian residential architecture in the country. Highland Park runs to Victorian, Colonial, Tudor and bungalow houses from the 1920s and 1930s. Mac-Groveland is Queen Anne, Craftsman bungalow, Prairie and Colonial Revival from the 1880s through the 1920s, and the streetcar blocks of Como, Hamline-Midway and Merriam Park are much the same.
None of those are simple roofs. More valleys, more wall-to-roof transitions, steeper pitch, turrets and dormer cheeks that have to be flashed properly or they will leak into a finished upstairs room. We price that roof for what it is instead of by the square.
If you are in a designated district, review comes first
St. Paul's Heritage Preservation Commission, created by ordinance in 1976, reviews exterior work on locally designated sites and districts. Historic Hill, Dayton's Bluff, Irvine Park, Lowertown and Summit Avenue West are among them. Exterior work in one of those needs design review approval before it starts, not after.
Check the address before you commit to a material. HPC staff take questions at 651-266-6714. We will work to whatever the district approves, and if that turns out to be a slate or tile replacement rather than an asphalt one, better to learn it at the estimate than at the delivery.
The city inspects the flashing, so do not cover it
A reroof needs a permit here, and the contractor has to call the building inspector before the work starts so the flashing and underlayment can be inspected while they are still visible. Inspectors take calls between 7:30 and 9:00 in the morning at 651-266-9002, and the Department of Safety and Inspections is at 375 Jackson Street, Suite 220.
The code details are specific and they matter on a city roof. The ice barrier has to run from the lowest roof edge to at least 24 inches inside the exterior wall line, as either two cemented layers of underlayment or a self-adhering polymer-modified bitumen sheet. Step flashing at roof-to-wall junctions has to be corrosion-resistant metal at least 0.019 inches thick, and any chimney or projection wider than 30 inches needs a saddle or cricket behind it with flashing and counterflashing. A dumpster placed in the street, sidewalk, boulevard or alley needs a use-of-street permit; Public Works handles those at 651-266-6151.
Hail, wind and the claim after
On June 19, 2026 the National Weather Service confirmed hail up to 2.25 inches in northern St. Paul, with a continuous swath of inch-and-a-quarter to inch-and-three-quarter stones running through Roseville, Falcon Heights, Little Canada and Maplewood into the East Side. Further back, the tornado of August 20, 1904 cut a path half a mile wide and eight miles long through the city and took down the High Bridge.
We inspect and photograph hail and wind damage with a reference scale in frame and write it up so an adjuster can act on it. If a claim is already open we will meet them at the house. Our storm damage and insurance claims pages set out how the process runs.
Call 612-235-8696 or use the contact page with the address. We work north of the city in Shoreview and east in Woodbury, and every city we cover is listed on the service areas page.