Roofing Services in Humboldt Park, Chicago

Humboldt Park carries substantial greystone and brick homes and mansion-scale buildings along the boulevards, with dense blocks of brick and greystone two-flats and three-flats through the rest of the community area, plus frame cottages and workers houses. Almost all of it is low-slope behind parapets. The boulevard buildings bring elaborate masonry, decorative cornices and complex parapet geometry that makes the roof-to-wall termination a real piece of work rather than a detail.

Parapet, coping and cornice-to-roof terminations dominate, particularly on the boulevard buildings where decorative masonry complicates the counterflashing. Older buildings with deferred maintenance frequently need masonry attention alongside the roofing, because a coping joint that has opened up is a masonry problem as much as a roofing one. Rear porch and addition roofs are a consistent second source of calls.