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Rodney's Roofing & Home Remodeling is a West Garfield Park contractor owned by Rodney Mickell. The business repairs and replaces house roofs and remodels homes in Chicago.
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Scroll, and the picture follows one roof through one working day. This is the usual order of a shingle roof replacement. The clock is an illustration: how long your roof takes depends on its size, its shape and the weather.
A tear-off drops a lot of old roof, so the first job of the day is on the ground. Tarps cover the flower beds and the ground along the walls. The ladder is set at the eave. The dumpster is parked as close to the house as the street allows, so the old roof has a short trip.
Tear-off starts at the ridge and works down to the eave. Old shingles, old felt and old nails all go in the dumpster until the roof is bare wood. Stripping it this far is the only way to see what shape the deck is in.
With the wood showing, soft, dark or split boards are easy to find. They get cut out and replaced, so the new roof has something solid to nail into. Then metal drip edge goes along the eave, where it steers water off the fascia board and into the gutter.
Underlayment goes on in overlapping runs from the eave up, so water always runs over a lap and never into one. Chicago winters push ice back up the roof edge, so the first run at the eave is a self-sealing ice barrier. Flashing follows at the chimney and the vent pipe, two of the places roofs most often leak.
Shingles go on in courses, bottom row first. Each course covers the nails of the one below it, and the joints are staggered so no two line up. The ridge cap goes on last and closes the peak.
The tarps come up and the ladder comes down. A rolling magnet goes over the lawn, the walk and the alley, and picks up nails before a tire or a bare foot finds them. The dumpster leaves with the old roof inside.
By dark the lights are on, and when the rain comes it runs down the new shingles and into the gutter. If your roof is letting water in, or you want a price to replace it before it does, call Rodney's Roofing & Home Remodeling at (773) 676-3830 or send the quote form below.
Residential roofing, general home remodeling and related construction work, from one contractor on the West Side.
Leaks, missing or lifted shingles, and worn flashing around chimneys and vent pipes. A repair fixes the spot that failed and leaves the rest of the roof alone.
Roof repair in ChicagoWhen a roof has more bad spots than good ones, it comes off down to the wood and a new one goes on. The steps are the ones in the story above.
Roof replacement in ChicagoGeneral remodeling inside the house, from bare studs to a finished room. Describe what you want changed and ask whether it is work the business takes on.
Home remodeling in ChicagoRoofers measure in squares. One square is 100 square feet of roof. Put in the size of your house and the pitch of the roof, and this works out roughly how many squares are up there. It is a useful number to have when you call.
Arithmetic on a plain rectangle, so read it as a rough figure. It gives no prices.
Fill this in and send it. Rodney's Roofing & Home Remodeling calls you back on the number you give. In a hurry? Call (773) 676-3830.
Rodney Mickell owns Rodney's Roofing & Home Remodeling LLC. He is the owner and the listed contact for customers.
The business is based in West Garfield Park, on Chicago's West Side, in ZIP code 60624. The blocks around it are lined with brick two-flats, greystones and frame houses, many of them close to a century old, and houses that age keep a roofer busy.
Rodney's Roofing & Home Remodeling LLC is a Chicago contractor that repairs and replaces residential roofs and remodels homes. It also takes on related construction work. The owner is Rodney Mickell.
The business is based in West Garfield Park, Chicago, IL 60624, on the city's West Side.
Call (773) 676-3830 or fill in the quote form on this site. Say what the job is and where the house is. Photos of the problem are useful to have ready.
A roofing square is 100 square feet of roof surface. Roofers measure and price shingle roofs in squares, so a roof of 1,500 square feet is 15 squares.
Many single-family shingle roofs are stripped and replaced in one to three working days. Size, pitch, the number of old layers, deck repairs and weather all change that. Ask for the expected schedule along with your quote.
Rodney's Roofing & Home Remodeling takes calls about roof repairs, roof replacements and home remodeling in Chicago. Would you sooner write it down? Send the quote form.