ABOUT ALLWEATHER ROOF

A Commercial Roofing Company You Can Trust

For nearly a century, Allweather Roof has provided systems to building owners, architechts, contractors, and consultants throughout the United States, but we specialize in Twin Cities Commercial Roofing. Since our founding in 1925, we have set the benchmark for commercial roofing excellence in the Twin Cities. Allweather Roof’s founding philosophy remains very much true today; provide custom specifications, quality installations, and superior client services. Our tradition of award winning excellence has enabled us to install over ten thousand roofs totaling more than one hundred million square feet! With our extensive experience, you can rest assured that an Allweather Roof will protect you for decades to come. Our steadfast dedication to excellence in roof systems and services has now moved into the 21st century. The years ahead promise to be our greatest. Let our dedication and expertise protect the assets you have worked so hard to build. With Allweather Roofs, all roofs are covered.

Meet Our Roofing Team

Professional Roofers Building Incredible Roofs

At Allweather Roof we’re professional roofers building incredible roofs. We are a huge believer in that our people give us the advantage over our competition. Browse the members of our talented team and see why Allweather is the way to go. Want to be a part of the team? Check out our job openings.

Ken Sorensen

President

Russ Kiker

Vice President

Mike Johnson

CFO

Brent Loberg

Senior Sales Representative

Peter Schmidt

Safety Director

Steve Beyer

Registered Roof Consultant

Scott Steigauf

Senior Sales Representative

Craig Mielke

Sales Manager

Jacob Peterson

Commercial Roof Advisor

Max Cavanaugh

Sales

Dawn Veliz

Service Manager/Operations Assistant

Lynn Telander

Executive Assistant

Josh Betterman

Accountant

Brett Nesenson

Foreman

Casey Peterson

Foreman

Fernando Lopez

Foreman

Hugo Sosa

Foreman

Jose Enriquez

Foreman

Josh Kvam

Foreman

Juan Rojas

Foreman

Manny Martinez

Foreman

Mike Perez

Foreman

Vince Neumann

Foreman

Anthony Tapio

Service Technician

Becky Richardt

Service Technician

Ben Tapia

Service Technician

Bob Ralston

Service Technician

Caleb Peterson

Service Technician

Darrin Cassidy

Service Technician

Dave Johnson

Service Technician

Dawson Rolf

Service Technician

Doug McNamara

Service Technician

Jason Mazza

Service Technician

Josh Kloti

Service Technician

Ken Dirks

Service Technician

Mike Rodriquez

Service Technician

Noah Harvey

Service Technician

Pablo Rodriquez

Service Technician

Steve Kazle

Service Technician

Tony Shore

Service Technician

Abe Sandoval

Sheet Metal

Bryce Barber

Foreman

Jorge Gallegos

Warehouse Team Member

Matt Grover

Warehouse Team Member

Neal Grythe

Crane Operator

Pete Hazen

Crane Operator

Wayne Glovinski

Warehouse Team Member

Award Winning
One Stop Provider
Safety

Award Winning Recognition

Allweather Roof has continually been recognized nationally for our quality workmanship, professionalism, industry involvement, and superior commitment to customer satisfaction. Since its inception, Allweather Roof has annually been awarded the prestigious “Inner Circle of Quality Award” by Firestone, the largest manufacturer.

One Stop Provider

We take pride in being your one source roofing provider. Allweather Roof offers a multitude of roofing choices and a broad range of services and options to choose from. We provide services that from $100 roof repairs to $1,000,000+ roof replacements. Our highly trained service specialists are on call twenty-four hours a day, three hundred sixty-five days a year. When it comes to commercial roofing, there is not a single service we can’t provide. Allweather Roof handles each of our projects down to the final detail.

Safety

As a commercial roofing company, a top priority for us is to provide you and our employees the safest work environment possible. In order to accomplish this task we hold regular safety meetings in accordance with OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration). Allweather Roof maintains one of the lowest experience modifiers in the industry. We are confident that the safety measures we employ will keep everyone safe.

Company History

1900

Louis Abrahamson moves to the Minnesota, leaving behind his Russian roots.

1911

After several different business attempts, Louis moves to Minneapolis

1924

Louis runs for Secretary of State, taking second place to Susie W. Stageberg.

1925

Louis starts Allweather Roof Company, after working in the roofing industry for a short while. He decided roofing was a good business to be in because, “They always need repairs.

1933

Bob Abrahamson left Detroit and the auto-industry to come join his father at Allweather and slowly takes over the business, running it for the next 30 or so years.

1961

Chester Grossman, Bob’ son in law, joins the business and eventually takes over.

1960s

Allweather covers a wide territory including Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa & South Dakota targeting mostly smaller towns with front to back sloped buildings usually with some type of tar roof.

xxxx

Chester connects with Irwin Jacobs, a wealthy Minnesota investor, who made his early money in burlap bags. Irwin Jacobs went on to create QVC years later. Chester started using the burlap bags to act as a reinforcement membrane on the rooftops.

1980

George Heriot becomes the General Manager of Allweather.

1983

Ken Sorensen joins Allweather in sales.

1985

Allweather’s offices moved from the Cleveland Ave location to the old foundry building.

1985

George and Chester start discussions for George to buy the name Allweather Roof.

1985

AWR Inc formed formed by George Heriot & Dick Jez Oct 11,1985 – This was used to purchase Allweather Roof name and assets in March of 1986.

1985

Offices moved out of Cleveland to the Wright Building at 2233 University Ave St. Paul, with warehouse at University Ave and MN 280 St. Paul.

1986

Ken became a stockholder in AWR Inc.

1986

Hired a research company to get a survey of all customer sentiments. 93.3% of customer base confirmed they planned on using Allweather in the future.

1986

Hit the $1 Mil in revenue and have grown consistently since then.

1988

Purchased building at 3023 Snelling Ave Minneapolis, MN 55406 – moved office and warehouse to this location.

1988

Joined the Master Contractor Program – one of 100 contractors to get MC award.

1988

Annual Safety Meetings start and Allweather makes another serious stride towards safety leadership

Early 1990s

Moved away from subcontractors and starting to move to internal teams.

Safety is an important part of the Allweather Roof culture

Mid 1990s

Began to build up a culture of safety and focus more on safety practices.

1991

Achieved new Elevate award – Inner Circle of Quality – top 50 of MC group (now 250 contractors).

Early 2000s

Allweather took a very serious focus on safety, (no worker allowed to work outside of warning lines without being tied off, up to suspending entire roofing teams when necessary. This took some time to sink in, but it was a successful and positive change, ushering a new standard for safety across the company.

2002

Russ Kiker is hired with the concept of cross-training field crews. At the time one crew could do one type of roofing. Russ started to balance out the cross-functional skills making every roofing crew able to do every kind of job, in-turn enabling the sales team to sell more because Allweather no longer needed to wait for the specific roofing system team to be available.

2005

Ken Sorensen promoted to General Manager.

2005

Jax Café meeting is the start of the brand “Exact Excellence.

2005

Commitment ’05 Dinner – upon taking over as GM, Ken crafted a strategy to focus on cross-team communications and training to build a more cohesive company. The expectation was to either commit or move on.

2002

Moved offices to the old Burlington Northern Train Hub – 2101 East 26th Street Minnepolis, MN.

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2013

Allweather moved to their current office in Golden Valley.

Community Involvement

Here at Allweather, we truly value community involvement just as much as we value our business. We absolutely love giving back to the community!

Supporting Employee Soccer League Team and Community Youth Sports

Weathering All Storms Together

Allweather Roof’s Community involvement with Youth Sports

Tigers Tae Kwon Do Roars in Anoka Tournament

Allweather Roof Empowering Youth Through Soccer