Minnetonka project gallery
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What we did
- Shingle roof replaced
- New flashing at the chimney
- New pipe flashings
- Finished roof photographed during a March 2026 follow-up visit
At a glance
- Roof
- Gable roof with a ridge vent row
- Colors
- Owens Corning Duration, Slatestone Gray
- Walls
- Charcoal and gray siding
- Setting
- Oak woods
What you are looking at
The shingles are a cool blue-gray blend, and the ridge is lined with a row of box vents just below the peak. A row of vents like this lets warm, damp attic air escape. In a Minnesota winter, that keeps frost from building up on the underside of the roof deck.
The brick chimney is painted dark, and one photo looks down at its base, where new metal flashing seals the joint between brick and shingles.
Another close-up shows a pipe flashing with a rubber collar around an older vent pipe. The pipe itself stays, and the flashing around it is what keeps water out.
From the yard, the house has charcoal lap siding on the main walls and gray vertical siding in the gable, with white windows and a louvered gable vent. A wind chime and bird feeder hang by one corner.
The lot is wooded with bare oaks in these photos, and last fall's leaves still cover the ground.
Early spring photos like these are useful because nothing is hidden. With the leaves down and no snow on the roof, the full ridge, every vent and the chimney flashing are all in plain view.
The dark siding and the blue-gray roof work as a pair. A cool gray shingle keeps a dark house from looking heavy, and the white windows stand out against both.
The Slatestone Gray color is the part you see; the part you don't is SureNail, a woven fabric strip across the nailing zone that Owens Corning rates for winds up to 130 mph on four nails per shingle. Nails that hold through a Minnetonka summer storm are the same nails that keep wind-driven snow from lifting an edge in January.
