Roofing, Siding & Storm Restoration in Garfield, MN

Garfield is about as close to home as our work gets — just west of Alexandria, where Think Exterior is based. We’re not driving in from three counties away; the inspection, the estimate, and the work all come from the crew right down the road.

A small town with a presidential name

Garfield is a small railroad village platted in 1882 and named in memory of President James A. Garfield, who had been assassinated the year before. Home to about 350 people, it sits on the paved Central Lakes State Trail between Alexandria and Brandon — genuinely small, and easy for our Alexandria crew to reach.

The season that quietly wrecks roofs

West-central Minnesota winters are long, and around Garfield Ice dams are the season’s stealth problem: heat escaping the home melts snow on the upper roof, and the runoff refreezes at the colder eaves, backing water under the shingles. An inspection can flag exterior damage and the warning signs before they reach your ceiling.

We’ll tell you if it’s fine

Hail and wind roll through the Lakes area every summer. A storm passing through doesn’t automatically mean your roof is damaged, and we won’t say it is when it isn’t. Plenty of our inspections end with “you’re good” — and that’s exactly what we tell you. It’s how we earn the next call years down the road.

What we do in Garfield

Roofing (repair and full replacement), siding, and storm-damage documentation. Our workmanship carries a 5-year warranty, separate from the manufacturer’s material warranty on what we install. For storm work we document the exterior conditions we observe and prepare a construction scope and repair estimate as your contractor — we don’t interpret insurance coverage, act as your public adjuster, or negotiate your claim. Book a free, honest inspection.

Documented severe weather — Douglas County

Primary-source record — Minnesota DNR climate journal. Reviewed July 2026.

June 20–21, 2022. A severe overnight storm moved across Douglas County. The Minnesota DNR documented a death and a hospitalization near Alexandria when the storm blew a tree onto a camper at a resort on the west side of Lake Mary, along with widespread tree damage throughout the Alexandria area — one of several rounds of severe storms to hit the county that summer. MN DNR record

Garfield sits inside this same Douglas County corridor, so homes here face the same open-country wind, summer hail, and long freeze-thaw winters — the three forces hardest on roofs and siding. When a storm does hit, we inspect it in person and tell you straight what your home’s exterior needs from a comprehensive inspection and honest documentation, including help with an insurance claim when the damage is real.