Roofing Services in Des Plaines, IL

Des Plaines spans a wide range: a walkable older downtown, large postwar residential tracts, the Des Plaines River corridor running through the middle of it, and a substantial commercial and industrial presence tied to its position next to O’Hare. Each of those brings a different roofing profile, and the river corridor in particular changes how seriously you have to take drainage.

Most of the residential stock is 1950s through 1970s - ranches, split-levels, bi-levels and Georgians - with simple to moderately complex roof forms. The split-levels are the ones that call us most: the intersecting roof planes and the roof-to-wall transitions on those houses depend entirely on correct step flashing, and a great many were done with a continuous strip of metal instead. Older sections near downtown carry pre-war frame and brick homes with steeper pitches. Newer infill and teardown construction has added larger homes with more complex rooflines and more valleys.

Properties in and near the river floodplain need drainage handled properly at every level - roof to gutter to downspout to grade - because saturated soil around a foundation is much less forgiving here. Proximity to O’Hare means consistent exposure to open-terrain winds. The freeze-thaw pattern is standard for the northwest suburbs, with ice damming concentrated on the older, less ventilated stock.

The O’Hare-adjacent industrial and hospitality corridor along Higgins and Touhy brings substantial low-slope commercial property - hotels, warehouses and office buildings on membrane systems with heavy rooftop equipment loads.