Roofing Services in Lakeview, Chicago

Lakeview runs heavily to multi-unit: brick three-flats, vintage courtyard apartment buildings, and six-flats, nearly all with low-slope roofs behind parapets. Mixed in are frame cottages and two-flats from the 1880s and 1890s, many raised over a masonry base at some point, and a substantial amount of newer condominium construction. Roof decks are widespread. The vintage courtyard buildings are worth calling out separately - large low-slope roof areas, internal drains, and terracotta or masonry parapets that have been through a century of freeze-thaw.

Internal roof drains on the vintage courtyard buildings are a recurring problem: undersized, partially blocked, or with failed drain bowl seals that leak directly into the top-floor units. Parapet coping joints and the terminations where the membrane turns up the parapet wall account for most of the rest. On the smaller frame buildings, the transitions between the main roof and rear porch or addition roofs are the usual entry point.