Across the metro, one free inspection

Minneapolis

A city where about 43% of homes were built before 1940 (Census ACS), so the chimney is usually brick, often unlined, and often still venting the furnace or water heater.

St. Paul & the East Metro

St. Paul's prewar neighborhoods, then Roseville, Maplewood, White Bear Lake, Stillwater's river-town houses and the newer streets of Woodbury.

West Metro

St. Louis Park, Golden Valley, Hopkins and Edina, where about a third of the homes went up between 1940 and 1959, many with a brick chimney on a postwar rambler.

Lake Minnetonka & the Northwest

Minnetonka, Plymouth, Wayzata and the lake towns, with a mix of older lake houses and 1980s and 1990s homes built around gas and factory-built fireplaces.

South Metro

Bloomington and Burnsville, then Eagan, Eden Prairie, Apple Valley and Lakeville, where median build years run from the 1970s to 1999.

North Metro

Maple Grove, Brooklyn Park, Coon Rapids, Blaine, Andover and Anoka, the coldest corner of the metro by NOAA's numbers.

How the metro changes from edge to edge

The north metro runs colder. NOAA's 1991–2020 normals put Andover at about 172 nights a year at or below freezing and about 39 nights below zero, against about 147 and 22 at MSP airport. The housing changes even more: Minneapolis and St. Paul are more than 40% prewar, Richfield is mostly 1940s and 1950s, and Lakeville, Blaine and Woodbury have median build years in the late 1990s, where a sided chase and a gas fireplace are the norm.

Booking

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