Roofing Services in Bolingbrook, IL

Bolingbrook is one of the clearest examples in the metro of what phased suburban growth means for roofing. The village expanded rapidly from the late 1960s onward in large, coherent subdivision phases, and those phases now reach end of roof life together. It is common here to replace several roofs on the same street in a single season, simply because they all went on within a couple of years of each other.

The older eastern sections carry 1970s ranches, split-levels, bi-levels and modest two-stories with simple to moderate roof forms and the limited attic ventilation typical of that era. The 1980s and 1990s brought larger two-story colonials with multiple gables and attached garages. The western growth areas added 1990s and 2000s construction with substantially more complex elevations, heavier valley footage, projecting garages and vaulted interior volumes that remove conventional attic ventilation from parts of the house. Townhome and condominium development is significant and association-managed.

Will County is in an active severe weather corridor with recurring straight-line wind events and periodic damaging hail moving through from the west and southwest. The open subdivision terrain offers essentially no wind buffering, which is why ridge caps and rake edges are the first casualties in a wind event here. Freeze-thaw cycling drives ice accumulation in the valleys of the more complex newer roofs.

The Boughton Road and Weber Road corridors and the distribution and logistics property along I-55 carry substantial retail and large-format warehouse roofs on single-ply membrane systems.