Roofing Services in Rogers Park, Chicago

Rogers Park is dominated by multi-unit vintage construction: 1920s courtyard apartment buildings, six-flats and walk-ups, many of them substantial, nearly all with large low-slope roofs, internal drains and masonry parapets. Frame two-flats and single-family homes fill in on the side streets, and the lakefront carries mid-century and later high-rise buildings. The vintage apartment stock is the defining roofing feature - large roof areas on buildings approaching or past a century old.

These are drainage roofs. Internal drain condition, drain bowl seals and parapet terminations account for most of the leaks, and on a large courtyard roof a single blocked drain creates ponding that works at seams through every freeze-thaw cycle. Direct lake exposure adds wind-driven rain and heavier wet snow loading. Preventive maintenance on buildings of this size and age returns more than almost anything else we do.