Roofing Services in Schaumburg, IL

Schaumburg is really two roofing markets in one village. On the residential side it is a study in late-century subdivision construction - large, coherent tracts built from the 1970s through the 1990s, now moving through their first and second replacement cycles more or less together. On the commercial side, the Woodfield area and the surrounding office and retail corridors represent one of the densest concentrations of low-slope commercial roof area in the metropolitan area.

The residential stock is predominantly 1970s to 1990s: two-story colonials, split-levels, quad-levels and ranches, along with substantial townhome and condominium development. Roof forms are moderately complex - multiple gables, attached garage transitions, and on the later builds, front-facing bump-outs that add valleys. Because these subdivisions were built in coherent phases, roofs across a whole neighborhood tend to reach end of life within a few years of each other, which is why a single street can turn over almost entirely in one or two seasons. Townhome and condo associations here typically manage roofing at the association level, which changes the scope and the process.

Flat, open terrain across most of the village means little wind buffering. Summer thunderstorm complexes moving through the northwest suburbs bring both straight-line wind and hail, and Schaumburg has taken damaging hail more than once. On the commercial side, large uninterrupted low-slope roof areas make drainage design and drain maintenance the difference between a 25-year membrane and a 12-year one.

The Woodfield corridor, the Meacham Road and Golf Road office concentrations, and the surrounding retail and hotel properties add up to an unusually large stock of TPO, EPDM and modified bitumen roofs, most carrying substantial rooftop mechanical equipment. Preventive maintenance programs pay for themselves quickly on roofs of this size.