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Roof Maintenance Tips for Winter
We like to compare roof maintenance to football. Spring is the preseason. Summer is the regular season. Autumn is the playoffs. And winter? Winter is the Super Bowl, where everyone has to bring their A-game if they want their roofs to stay their very best. But unlike...
6 Benefits of Having Your Roof Replaced During Fall
Autumn is our absolute favorite time of year for roof replacement. As a roofing contractor in Minnesota, we'd much rather spend time on top of houses during fall when the weather is cool and dry – as opposed to during summer, when it is broiling hot and only slightly...
How to Inspect Your Roof for Storm Damage
There were 3,763 major hailstorms in the United States in 2021. The Minneapolis area had 98 reported hailstorms between August, 2021 and July, 2022 alone. State Farm paid over one-quarter billion dollars to Minnesotans whose homes and vehicles were damaged by hail in...
Guide to Choosing Your Home’s Roofing Material
Take it from a roofing expert in Minnesota – the roof you choose for your home matters. Your next roofing material will command the overall appearance of your home's exterior for decades to come. It will determine how much time and money you have to spend on...
Why You Should Have a Detached Garage Built
Detached garages used to be the norm. This is because they were modeled after (or converted from) carriage houses, which were used to store horse-drawn carts and tack. As beautiful as horses are, no one wanted the animals inside a building attached to their home. They...
Top Home Exterior Design Trends of 2022
As part of our mission to serve the Twin Cities and St. Cloud, MN areas for all their general contracting needs, the Angell's Construction team stays closely apprised of every trend in our industry - especially exterior trends. We need to know which framing hammers...
7 Signs You May Need a New Roof
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure – especially when it comes to roofing. You don't want easily detectable and repairable roof damage to turn into a big, expensive problem later down the road. That's why every homeowner should be on the lookout for these...
6 Top Kitchen Remodeling Trends of 2022
We're not highly influential kitchen remodelers here at Angell's Construction. Our work has never been featured on the cover of Better Homes and Gardens (even though it could be), and no smiling HGTV casting agents have ever shown up at our office with a contract...
6 Bathroom Remodel Mistakes to Avoid
As a professional bathroom remodeler in Central Minnesota, we don't just spend a lot of our time updating "throne rooms" for the 21st century. We undo plenty of bathroom remodel mistakes as well! To be sure: We're more than happy to spend however much time our clients...
The Pros and Cons of Finished Basements – And 5 Ideas for Your Basement Remodel!
How do you add livable space to your home? You could certainly build upward or outward – and our team would be delighted to help you with that. But these are not inexpensive projects. Adding a second story to a 2,000 square foot house can cost as much as $200,000....