A family roofing shop on Ryan Lane, open since 1997
Austad Construction is a family-owned and operated roofing company at 182A Ryan Ln in Little Canada, Minnesota. It was established in 1997, and it calls itself the local roofing and restoration experts for St Paul, Minneapolis and Woodbury. The tagline is also the promise: the first thing we build is trust.
That promise starts at the kitchen table. When you ask for an estimate, the person who looks at your roof and explains the work is the owner of the company. One customer who collected four bids wrote that the bid was right in the middle, but “the estimator, the business owner himself provided the most thorough explanation of how the work should be done,” and that is why they chose Austad.
You leave that visit with a packet: the materials, the warranty and references. Austad keeps its references on file by neighbourhood, so the people you can call are people who live near you and have the same kind of house under the same kind of sky. Read the reviews and letters.
Little Canada, Minnesota
182A Ryan Lane
Two lettered trucks leave this yard for roofs across St Paul, Minneapolis and Woodbury. The office line printed on the doors, (651) 482-0070, rings in the same building.
Mon-Fri: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
roofingmn@msn.com
The yard is part of the job
A tear-off puts a lot of old shingle on the ground. Customers keep mentioning what the lawn and the beds looked like when the crew drove away.
“I was very impressed with how clean they left our yard and gardens.”
“They were amazed at how clean the yard was and that no plants were damaged!”
Paper you can check
- Licence
- Minnesota Building Contractor License BC320318. Licensed, bonded and insured, with liability and workers' compensation coverage.
- Manufacturers
- GAF Master Select Roofing Contractor, also working with Owens Corning, Firestone, Carlisle, Boral and Fabral systems. Extended warranties are available.
- Senior citizens
- Ask about the senior citizen discount when you book the estimate.
- Payment
- Cash, check, MasterCard, Visa and American Express.
Steep slopes the shop has put back together
Victorians, foursquares and a fieldstone chalet around the Twin Cities, each with the roof detail that gave it trouble.
Italianate house behind an iron fence, new shingle roof 
Queen Anne turret and gables in dark shingle 
Foursquare with hipped bays, dark shingle on every plane 
Victorian bay roof in brick-red shingle 
Two-storey house in dark shingle, blue spruce beside it 
New shingle over the main roof and the three-car garage wing 
Steep chalet roof above a fieldstone base 
Standing seam centre roof between two shingled gables
Ask for the estimate, then ask for the references
Austad answers calls and emails the same business day, and the roof inspection is free. See more of the work in the roof survey or start with residential roofing.