Roof Replacement in Nisswa, MN May 2025

What you are looking at

The shingles are a warm brown blend with copper, tan and dark brown granules. Under the spring tree shade they look almost like a two-tone pattern.

Before shingling, a layer of 7/16 inch OSB went down over the existing roof decking. An overlay like this gives the new shingles a flat, solid surface to nail into when the old deck boards are uneven or have gaps.

Along the peak, a ridge vent sits under capped ridge shingles. A plumbing vent stack and a round metal roof vent come through the roof nearby.

The house sits on a steep wooded slope. In the photos you can see the lake, a dock and the neighboring cabins through the oaks and birches.

The photos were taken in mid May, when the leaves were just coming out.

The worksheet lists the CoreGuard package, the Better tier, for the shingles. The overlay and the shingles were done as one job, so the new roof went down on a fresh, flat surface.

A roof on a hillside lot like this is hard to see from the yard, which is why every photo here was taken from the roof itself. From up top you can see how the shade from the oaks moves across the shingles through the day.

The Brownwood 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. On a Nisswa roof, a shingle that stays nailed flat in summer wind is also one that keeps drifting snow and meltwater from getting under the edges.