We provide ice dam removal in St. Louis Park, MN with low-pressure steam, from the streets near Westwood Hills Nature Center to the blocks around Methodist Hospital. If meltwater is already inside, we steam a drain path above the leak first, then clear the rest of the eave.
We clear ice dams across St. Louis Park, MN by steaming the frozen ridge at the eave and the ice behind it until snowmelt has a clear route past the gutter. Most of the bill is time on the roof, and our page on ice dam removal explains how we work and what moves the price.
Top-floor ceilings under the attic
Half of St. Louis Park's homes were built by 1965, and University of Minnesota Extension calls house air escaping to the attic the major source of the heat that builds ice dams in many houses. Recessed lights, bath fans and attic hatches are the usual gaps.
Sunny roof planes over heated rooms
NOAA's normals for the nearby Minneapolis-St. Paul airport show 12.1 days above freezing in February and 25.1 in March. Every thaw melts more roof snow, and every cold night after it adds ice to the dam.
Below dormer windows and over entries
Snow slides and drifts onto the short roof sections in front of dormers and over entries. Those spots drain slowly, so a dam there often shows up first as long icicles below a bedroom window.
Each job ends when water can run freely from the upper roof past the eave.
Meltwater backed up behind a dam often shows up inside a window frame first. We steam a drain path through the ice directly above that window, then work outward along the eave.
We melt the dam off in sections down to the shingles and the drip edge, and we free the gutter outlets so the water leaves the roof.
Townhome boards and building managers call us when one long eave leaks into several units. We work along the roof unit by unit and report which sections held the thickest ice.
Three local details change how we plan a job here and what we tell you afterward.
ZIP 55416 also covers part of Minneapolis, and 55424 part of Edina, so the mailing address does not always match the city. If dam damage leads to a re-roof, the permit comes from the city the house is in, which for St. Louis Park is the Building and Energy Department.
Census data counts 12,261 detached single-family homes among the city's 25,933 housing units. Many of our calls here involve shared roofs, so we confirm who manages the building and which units sit under the iced eave before we set a ladder.
In an average year the airport station logs 72.3 days whose high stays at or below 32°F. A dry dam can sit for weeks in that cold, which gives you time to have it steamed off before the next thaw. Our guide shows when ice dam season peaks.
A typical visit follows five steps, and the drain path always comes before the full eave.
We ask whether water is inside, which rooms are wet and whether the building is a house, a townhome or a condo. That tells us which eave to start on and who needs to approve the work.
We walk the house, note where the ice is thickest and look for bare patches higher up that point to heat escaping from the attic.
If a room is already wet, we steam a narrow path through the dam above the wet room so the trapped water runs off the roof.
We work along the eave with low-pressure steam until the ice lets go of the shingles, and we leave the roofing in place.
Before we leave, we point out the eaves that held the most ice and any shingle damage your roofer should see.
Tell us your city, the kind of roof and whether water is already showing inside.
Call (612) 471-2509We cover every St. Louis Park neighborhood and the cities around it, and we also serve other Minnesota cities we cover across the state.
St. Louis Park, by ZIP code
Minneapolis has older housing, with a median build year of 1951, so its dams often trace to attics built before current code. See our Minneapolis ice dam help.
Edina shares ZIP 55424 with St. Louis Park, and its own Building Inspections office permits roofing work. Read about Edina roofs and ice dams.
Roseville's housing is close in age to St. Louis Park's, with a 1969 median build year. Learn about our nearby Roseville service.
Questions we hear from St. Louis Park owners and managers each winter.
Not for us. We serve all three cities. It matters only if the damage leads to a re-roof, because the permit comes from the city where the house sits, which here is the St. Louis Park Building and Energy Department.
Yes, on shingled eaves. The association or property manager usually calls us, and we work along the shared roof unit by unit, starting over any unit with water inside.
Not for long. A de-icer cuts a narrow channel at best, and University of Minnesota Extension says a channel through a dam quits working within days. The heat behind the dam usually comes from house air reaching the attic.
Call us first, then catch the drips in buckets and switch off the circuit to any wet light fixture. University of Minnesota Extension advises drying wet areas right away, because damp drywall and insulation left behind by an ice dam can grow mold.
Calls are answered 24/7. Tell us which room is wet and whether the building is a house or a townhome, and we will work out which eave to steam first on your St. Louis Park roof.
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Call (612) 471-2509