Midwest Building Exteriors
Best Overall in St. Anthony Village — 1950s decking and ventilation handled correctly, permits on either side of the county line, 99% insurance claim approval rate.
St. Anthony is fifteen minutes from our Richfield headquarters and we work all of 55418 and 55421 — the original Village ramblers, the Highcrest and Chandler Drive two-stories, the Stinson Boulevard blocks on the Minneapolis border, and the Silver Lake Village associations. A roofing permit is required here; it goes out under our license, we handle the inspection, and the signed-off record comes back to you at handoff. Because the Hennepin–Ramsey line runs through the city, we also know which county your property record actually lives in, which saves an afternoon of phone calls when you go looking for it later.
The single biggest thing we do differently on a 1950s St. Anthony roof is tell you about the decking before tear-off day instead of during it. Houses from this build-out very often have original one-by board sheathing with gaps that will not reliably hold a modern fastener, and the moment the old shingles come off, that becomes a change order. We inspect for it, we quantify it, and we put the re-sheathing allowance in the written scope up front so the number you approve is the number you pay.
The second is ventilation. These ramblers have shallow eaves and frequently no continuous soffit intake, and once someone stuffs insulation to the roof deck the assembly stops breathing. That produces winter ice damming at the eaves that homeowners reasonably mistake for storm damage. We check intake and exhaust on every inspection here and price the correction as its own visible line so you can decide on it with clear eyes rather than discovering it in a leak two Februaries from now.
On the claim side we document, and we are precise about where that stops. Our free inspection produces the same package on every St. Anthony house: aerial imagery, a hands-on walk of each slope we can safely stand on, tight shots of the gutters, aprons, vents and screens, a look at the deck from inside the attic, and a line-item Xactimate scope of loss in your inbox and your carrier's within two business days. When the adjuster schedules, we are on the roof with them, at no cost to you. That adjuster decides your claim. Midwest Building Exteriors does not act as a public adjuster on a project it contracts to repair, and Christian Musta's Minnesota Public Adjuster license is a competency and ethics credential behind how thoroughly we document rather than a service we sell you. Across the trailing 24 months, 834 of 842 legitimate claims we documented were approved — and when a roof is simply worn out rather than storm-damaged, we say that instead of filing. No Assignment of Benefits, ever.
- ✓A+ rated with the BBB (verify at bbb.org)
- ✓Manufacturer-certified installer (Owens Corning, TAMKO, CertainTeed) + James Hardie Elite Preferred
- ✓99% insurance claim approval rate — 834 approved / 842 submitted (last 24 months)
- ✓Free drone-assisted inspections in St. Anthony — typically scheduled within 48 hours
- ✓Three local offices: Richfield HQ, Eagan, St. Croix Falls
- ✓Lifetime Craftsmanship Warranty on every St. Anthony install
- ✓In-house installation crews — no subs, no commission door-knockers
- ✓Full exterior: roofing, siding, windows, gutters, decks, commercial
- ✓Family-led, locally owned — not a franchise, not a private-equity rollup
- ✓Premium brands: Owens Corning, TAMKO, CertainTeed, James Hardie, Andersen, Trex, AZEK
