Homeowners across Hennepin County call about icicles. Icicles are cosmetic. The dam behind them, holding back standing water, is not. As part of our complete Edina winter roof services, crews handle commercial roof snow removal across Hennepin County.
Snow Bands, Warm Attics and the Edina Eave
What makes Hennepin County roofs dam is not the seasonal total, it is how the snow arrives. Bands dump a heavy, saturated pack in hours, and that pack becomes a water reservoir sitting on a heated surface.
Then the temperature swings. Lake-effect regions cycle hard either side of freezing, and each cycle moves meltwater down to a cold eave and locks it there. The dam grows by a layer every time, and the water behind it rises with it.
Ice-barrier practice in Hennepin County
Lake-belt jurisdictions in Minnesota have enforced eave membrane on re-roof permits for a long time. The roofs that leak are, almost without exception, the ones that have not been touched since before that.
Commercial Roof Snow Removal in Edina: How The Work Runs
Reduction to a threshold, not a bare deck
The goal is bringing the load under the structure's capacity safely, with a cushion layer left on the membrane throughout. Ceiling Sagging or Bulging After Snow.
Scraping a commercial Edina roof to bare membrane costs more, takes longer and risks the roof covering for no structural benefit.
Sequencing so the load comes off evenly
Stripping one bay to the deck while the next still carries two feet creates exactly the unbalanced condition that overloads a member. Structures object less to a lot of weight spread evenly than to a moderate weight concentrated on one side.
Crews work in passes across the whole span, reducing everywhere before going deeper anywhere, and the sequence is set before anybody starts rather than left to whoever gets up there first.
Drains and overflows come first
Before anything else comes off, the drains, scuppers and overflow outlets get opened. Otherwise the melt from the clearing has nowhere to go and the roof trades a snow problem for a ponding one.
On a deck in Edina with internal drains that means confirming flow below, not just clearing the grate.
The cost of a shutdown against the cost of a clear
Clearing a large deck is a real number and it is easy to defer. The comparison that matters is not clearing against nothing, it is clearing against the day the building is closed while an engineer inspects it - lost trade, displaced tenants, and an insurer asking what was done beforehand.
The load reading is what makes that decision for you rather than a feeling about how deep the snow looks.
Reduction, not bare deck
The goal is to bring the load under threshold safely, not to scrape a roof in Edina clean. Clearing is balanced across the deck so load is not shifted onto one bay, drains and scuppers are opened so melt has an exit, and a cushion layer always stays on the membrane.
Where the figures call for it, crews bring in crane-assisted picks instead of adding bodies to a roof that is already carrying too much.
What you get in Edina
- Drains kept openScuppers and internal drains cleared so meltwater has an exit
- Balanced reductionLoad brought under threshold without shifting it onto one bay
- Drift-point surveyDepth and density measured where it collects, not where it is convenient
| Documentation | Dated before and after photos, written scope in Xactimate line items |
|---|---|
| Removal method | Low-pressure steam only. No chipping, salt or pressure washing. |
| Coverage area | Edina and Hennepin County |
| Service | Commercial Roof Snow Removal in Edina, MN |
| Local ice-barrier practice | Eave membrane expected on re-roofs |
| Dispatch window | Same day to 24 hours |
| Primary climate stressor | Lake-effect bands, wet heavy pack |
Where We Dispatch Around Edina
Crews working Edina cover the adjoining communities on the same route — Saint Louis Park, Mendota, Wayzata, Navarre and Excelsior — so a storm week usually means one truck handling several addresses in Hennepin County rather than separate trips.
Nearest hub towns with their own commercial snow pages: St. Louis Park, Richfield, Bloomington, Eden Prairie, Hopkins, Minnetonka.
Coverage runs across Edina and the nearby towns all winter, and capacity is surged into whichever Minnesota market the storm actually hits.
Most jobs do not stop at one service. Commercial Snow in Edina often runs alongside crane-assisted snow removal in Edina, and both get written into one scope rather than billed as separate visits.
Active leak right now? Our 24/7 Edina steam ice dam removal crews are dispatched first during a freeze event. Call (888) 561-9664.
