About Duluth Roof Pros: Roofing Pros in MN
Duluth Roof Pros is a roofing company built around one local observation: this city is not a single climate. Between Lake Superior at the shoreline and the ground eight hundred feet above it, wind, snowmelt and drying time all change enough to change how a roof should be built. So we map exposure before we price anything.
In practice that means our estimates read differently from most. They name the planes facing the lake and specify those separately from the sheltered ones, they separate perimeter work from field covering, and they say out loud which elevations we are deliberately not upgrading. We would rather explain a specification than defend a price.
There are jobs you should not hire us for. If you want a coating sprayed over asphalt shingles, a poly tarp on an exposed hillside plane, someone to absorb your deductible, or a tile conversion on a house framed for shingles, we are the wrong company and we will decline. We would also rather tell you a twelve-year-old roof is fine than manufacture a reason to replace it.
If you have a roofing project in Duluth, the fastest way to get a real number is a free on-site estimate. See every Duluth service we handle, check whether we cover Hermantown, MN and the rest of northeastern Minnesota, or go back to the Duluth Roof Pros homepage to start. You can also reach us directly on (844) 511-2320.
Credentials
- License: Minnesota licenses this trade, and the class matters more than most homeowners realize. A residential roofer license covers roofing and nothing else: the Department of Labor and Industry states plainly that it does not let a contractor take on gutters, downspouts, soffit or fascia, which need a residential building contractor or remodeler license instead. We sell all four, so ask for our license number and check which class it carries before you sign anything. Minn. Stat. 326B.802 subd. 15 lists residential roofing and exterior finishing as separate special skills, which is exactly why the two credentials are not interchangeable.
- Insurance: General liability and workers' compensation carried on every crew, with certificates sent direct from the carrier on request.
- Association: Member, National Roofing Contractors Association.
- Warranty: Written workmanship warranty on every replacement, plus the $15,000 biennial surety bond the residential roofer license requires.
How Duluth Roof Pros works
How a job with Duluth Roof Pros runs, start to finish
Site visit first, always. We measure, look at the real condition of the work area, and ask what you are actually trying to solve — then you get an itemized free estimate in writing with materials, scope and a realistic date on it.
Once the work starts, the same crew stays on the job until it is done. We protect the surrounding area, clean up daily, and tell you the moment something under the surface changes the plan, because the alternative is a surprise invoice and nobody wants that conversation. Written workmanship warranty on every replacement, plus the $15,000 biennial surety bond the residential roofer license requires. backs the finished work.
What we will not do
We do not quote a roofing job over the phone, take deposits before a written scope exists, or bid work we are not set up to do properly. If your project needs a different trade, we say so and point you at someone who does it well. Losing a job is cheaper than doing one badly in Duluth.
Where Duluth Roof Pros works and who we work with
Duluth, MN first, then the surrounding communities of northeastern Minnesota: Hermantown, Proctor, Rice Lake, Esko, Carlton, Scanlon, Wrenshall, Cloquet and more. Each of those has its own page with local detail rather than a copy of this one.
Work splits roughly between homeowners and commercial property — offices, retail, restaurants, apartment complexes and HOA boards across northeastern Minnesota. Start with the Duluth services, the Duluth Roof Pros homepage, or just call (844) 511-2320.
Why Duluth Chooses Duluth Roof Pros
- ✓Every proposal carries an exposure zone before it carries a price: where the house sits on the hillside, which planes face Lake Superior, and what stands upwind of each one.
- ✓Condition and damage are recorded by elevation and never averaged across a roof, because our lake-facing and hill-facing slopes routinely age years apart on the same house.
- ✓Perimeter before product. We would rather spend your money on starter along the rakes and hemmed edge metal than on a premium field shingle sitting above a bare edge.
- ✓We name the sheltered planes on your own house and specify them down, so nobody buys a crest-lot roof for a lower-hillside lot.
- ✓We do not coat asphalt shingles, we do not hang poly tarps on exposed planes, and we will not absorb your deductible, which is a crime in Minnesota.
- ✓Licensed as a Minnesota residential roofer under Minn. Stat. 326B.802 with the biennial surety bond that license requires, and the number is yours to check with the Department of Labor and Industry.
What Duluth Customers Say
They walked the roof and came back with a drawing showing which slopes face the lake and which do not, then quoted the two sides differently. Nobody else who bid explained anything. Two winters on and the north-east rake they rebuilt has not moved.
Called about a ceiling stain expecting the worst. They ran a hose test with a man in the attic, found a cracked pipe boot, replaced it and charged me for a boot. I have had two other companies here over the years and neither did that.
We are right on the shore and had lost shingles twice in four years. They rebuilt the edges with starter along the rakes and heavier metal instead of selling us a fancier shingle. Went through the November blow with nothing loose.
Told me my roof had six or seven years left and to call them then. Wrote it down with photographs of each slope and did not charge me for the visit. When I do replace it, it is going to be these people.
Service Areas
Duluth Roof Pros serves Duluth, MN and surrounding communities including: