Crane Lake Timber Lodge — Standing Seam Metal

This job is not in Silver Loon's Brainerd Lakes service area. It is real work by the same installing crew that puts roofs on Silver Loon jobs — border-lakes country near Crane Lake, close to Voyageurs National Park. We are showing it here because it is honest proof of what these hands can do on a hard roof.

The house is a big two-story timber-frame lodge with log siding and a covered porch, set back in the woods a short walk from the water. The roof has two sections: a main charcoal-gray standing seam field over the house and a lower brown standing seam roof over the porch and a matching structure near the dock. Standing seam metal at this scale typically runs 24-gauge steel, mechanically seamed, with no exposed fasteners on the field.

The photos show the crew mid-install, tied off on the ridge, running panel toward the eave. In the background, smoke rises from a brush pile — the kind of site cleanup that happens on almost every big lake-country build. A dock and open water sit just past the tree line. Standing seam sheds snow and ice clean off a roof like this, which matters this far north, where winter starts early and does not let go until spring.