Commercial roofing and masonry
Flat roofs, facades, parapets and lots. We work on commercial buildings across Chicago and the South Suburbs, and we schedule around your tenants and your trading hours rather than the other way round.
Flat commercial roofs
Commercial flat roofs fail at the seams and at the details — around units, drains, curbs and where the roof meets a wall — far more often than they fail across open field. Water that gets under a membrane travels, so the wet ceiling tile inside is rarely underneath the actual breach.
We repair and replace flat roof systems, and where the leak is genuinely in the roof we say so — and where it is coming off the parapet above the roofline, which on older Chicago commercial stock it very often is, we say that too. Doing both trades means the diagnosis is not shaped by which one we happen to sell.
Commercial masonry and facades
Facade work on a commercial building carries an obligation a house does not: the wall faces a public sidewalk. Loose masonry above a footpath is a liability question as much as a maintenance one, and it is the sort of thing that is very much cheaper to deal with on your schedule than on someone else's.
We repoint and rebuild commercial elevations, replace lintels over storefront openings, reset coping, and repair or rebuild parapet walls.
Working around an operating business
The constraint on commercial work is almost never the masonry. It is access, hours, tenants, deliveries and the fact that you cannot close for a fortnight. We plan around that: staging where it does not block your entrance, working the hours that suit the building, and sequencing so the disruptive part is as short as it can be.
A six-man crew is a practical size for this. Big enough to get real work done inside a tight window, small enough that you are dealing with the same faces from the estimate through to the last day.
Concrete and lots
We also handle the concrete side of commercial property: walks, aprons, loading areas, pads and stair replacement, including cutting and removal of what is there.
Property managers and repeat work
A good deal of our commercial work is repeat — the same buildings, year on year, as things come due. If you are managing several properties and want somebody who will look at a building and tell you what genuinely needs doing this year versus what can wait, that is the relationship we are generally in.