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Roof Inspection in Minnetonka Beach

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Minnetonka Beach · Hennepin County

Roof Inspection in Minnetonka Beach

Roof Inspection in Minnetonka Beach, Hennepin County, by Closer Look Inspectors. Minnetonka Beach is a Lake Minnetonka village shaped by the 1882 Hotel Lafayette and the Lafayette Club that followed it.

A roof inspection evaluates the covering, flashing, penetrations and drainage and gives an honest read on remaining service life — including the ice-dam wear and hail bruising Minnesota weather leaves behind.

Minnetonka Beach is served by our Big Lake team →  ·  (612) 457-1634

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Local housing

Homes in Minnetonka Beach.

Minnetonka Beach housing runs to early-1900s and 1920s lake estates and older shoreline homes, with mid-century and newer houses built or rebuilt on the same lots, across the shoreline around the Lafayette Club, the former Hotel Lafayette grounds, and the lots along County Road 15, on the moraine shoreline of Lake Minnetonka, where more than two thirds of the city area is water — and that mix shapes what a roof inspection here needs to find.

Local conditions in Minnetonka Beach

Minnetonka Beach does not run a point-of-sale housing ordinance, which makes an independent inspection the only thorough, buyer-side read on the home. Minnetonka Beach sits in Hennepin County, in EPA Radon Zone 1, and MDH reports more than two in five Minnesota homes have radon levels that pose a significant health risk. Finished basements concentrate radon, and only a 48-hour test tells you the number. Footings here must reach the 3-1/2-foot depth Minnesota Rules 1303.1600 set for the southern frost zone, and that annual freeze-thaw cycle is what drives the settlement cracks, frost heave and ice-dam wear that Minnetonka Beach-area homes face.

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Questions

Common questions.

Do you walk the roof?
When the pitch, height and covering allow it safely; otherwise we assess from the eaves and a ladder and note the method used.
What roof problems show up here?
Aging shingles, failed flashing, hail damage and ice-dam wear at the eaves are the recurring findings.
The house I am buying was rebuilt on an old Minnetonka Beach lot. Is it different from an old house?
It is different in age, not in need. A rebuild has newer systems and, ideally, better materials, but a new house on an old lot can still have grading, flashing, ventilation and installation problems. Sometimes a rebuild keeps part of an old foundation or an older structure, which is worth a careful look. We report the condition of each system, whichever era it belongs to.
How does the Lafayette Club history bear on older houses in Minnetonka Beach?
The Manitoba railway built the Hotel Lafayette here in 1882, and after the hotel burned in 1897 part of the property became the Lafayette Club, whose current clubhouse dates from 1924 after a 1922 fire. That history explains why the village has large, older lake houses with many additions. Homes like that bring century-old framing, multiple roof layers, older knob-and-tube or mixed wiring, masonry chimneys, big porches and retaining walls, and the question of whether renovations were done well. Shoreline moisture gets a close look on every house.
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