We provide ice dam removal in Shakopee, MN and nearby Savage, Eden Prairie and Burnsville, steaming eave ice down to the shingles so snowmelt drains again. Calls are answered 24/7.
Shakopee ice dam removal means we steam away the band of ice frozen along your eave so snowmelt can run down and clear the eave once more. We work across Scott County with low-pressure steam, the same method behind our ice dam removal across the state. Most of the bill is time on the roof.
Above bath fans, can lights and the attic hatch
Median year structure built for Shakopee is 1999, per the Census. University of Minnesota Extension finds warm house air escaping into the attic is the main heat source that feeds a dam in a lot of houses, so a young house can still dam.
Every thaw from December into March
NOAA normals for Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport record lows of 32 F or colder on 147.3 days in a normal year, but highs that cold on only 72.3. Snow that softens by afternoon freezes again at the eave overnight.
Porch and garage roofs
Where a second-story wall rises above a porch or garage roof, snow slides and drifts onto the lower roof, and its short eave tends to dam first.
Gutter corners and outlets
A downspout packed with ice gives meltwater nowhere to go, so the gutter fills and freezes back onto the shingles. We check every outlet along the roofline we work.
Each visit is one job in a different situation, and our step-by-step method is on the homepage.
If water is already dripping inside, we steam a drain path into the ice above that spot before anything else. Extension guidance says such a path only drains for a few days, so we clear the full dam during the same visit.
We move along the eave in sections and melt the ice back to the shingles and drip edge. Steam frees the ice without anyone striking the roof.
Once the dam is off, we steam the ice out of the gutter outlets so the next thaw has a way down.
Shakopee has 17,216 housing units, and 10,057 of them are 1-unit detached homes; the rest are attached homes and apartment buildings. On a shared townhome roof we go unit by unit and tell the manager which eaves held the heaviest ice.
Two public rules matter once a dam has already caused damage and the roof needs work afterward.
Minnesota's residential code calls for an ice barrier membrane running up from the eave edge until it is 24 inches or farther in from the outside wall. Water pushed farther up the roof than that strip can still find the ceiling, so a house built to code can leak.
The City of Shakopee puts re-roofing on its permit-required list. Steaming leaves your shingles where they are, so a permit only comes up if dam damage means new shingles, and the roofer you hire for that pulls it.
MPR News reported that Minnesota insurers generally pay for ice dam water damage, while getting the ice off counts as homeowner upkeep. Dated photos of the ice and any stains help when you file.
A ceiling dripping during a Shakopee thaw is worth a call tonight, and we start with a drain path above the leak.
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Call (612) 471-2509We cover every Shakopee address and the suburbs around it; see other Minnesota cities we cover.
Across Shakopee
The whole city sits in one ZIP, 55379, so homes on the Valleyfair side of town and those near Canterbury Park call the same line.
Edina's homes run older than Shakopee's, so dams there often start at different spots. See our Edina ice dam page.
St. Louis Park homes are older on average, which changes where attic heat escapes. More on how St. Louis Park roofs ice up.
Minneapolis has far more pre-1940 houses than Shakopee, with attics that leak heat in other places. Read about our nearby Minneapolis service.
Questions Shakopee homeowners and townhome managers ask before we set a ladder.
Yes. All of Shakopee falls in ZIP 55379, and we answer calls from any address in town, plus Savage, Eden Prairie and the rest of Scott County.
Only for roof replacement. The City of Shakopee lists re-roofing as permit-required, so new shingles after dam damage need one. Steaming the ice off changes nothing on the roof itself.
Because the cause is heat, and a young house can lose plenty of it. Extension researchers say a dam forms when the upper roof stays above 32 F while the eave stays below that.
Time on the roof drives most of it: how thick the dam is, how long the eaves run and how many stories we climb. Typical figures are in the cost table on our homepage.
Tell us which eave is iced and where water shows, and we'll set up the visit from there. Our guide shows how the ice dam season runs in Minnesota.
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Call (612) 471-2509