Two Kinds Of Roof In One Village, And We Do Both

The Industrial Side Of Broadview

The buildings along the Roosevelt Road and 17th Avenue stretch are mostly big low-slope decks: steel deck with rigid insulation and a single-ply membrane, or older built-up systems that have been coated once or twice already. They carry rooftop units, exhaust curbs, gas lines and drains, and every one of those penetrations is a place water gets in eventually. Most industrial leaks we chase in Broadview are not the field of the membrane failing. They are a curb flashing that split, a drain bowl that pulled loose, or a seam that opened where somebody walked a service route a thousand times.

What matters on a working building is that the repair happens without shutting anything down. We schedule around shifts, stage material so the dock stays clear, and hand over photo reports a property manager can forward without translating. If a roof still has usable life, we say so and quote a repair or a coating instead of selling a replacement the building does not need yet. When it truly is done, we lay out the options in plain terms: new membrane, coating system, or metal, with what each one actually buys you in years.

Commercial Work We Handle Here

• Warehouse roofing on the large low-slope decks along the industrial corridor, repair through full replacement.
• Industrial roofing where rooftop equipment, curbs and heavy foot traffic beat up the membrane faster than weather does.
• TPO roof repair on seams, curb flashings and punctures, plus TPO replacement when the sheet is past patching.
• Commercial roof leaks traced to the actual entry point rather than patched wherever the ceiling tile is stained.
• Commercial roof inspections with photo documentation for budgeting, insurance and property files.

The Residential Blocks Are A Different Job

Broadview’s houses are mostly modest postwar frame and brick homes on compact lots, bungalows, small ranches and a scattering of two-flats, many still on their original 1950s framing with a second or third roof over it. The problems there are ordinary and fixable: wind-lifted tabs on the exposed west slopes, failed step flashing where an addition ties into a wall, gutters that came off pitch years ago and now dump straight against the foundation.

We tear off to the deck on these houses, no overlays. An overlay hides the deck, adds weight, and voids the material warranty for anyone who reads it later. If the sheathing under your old roof is soft, that is the one moment in thirty years it is cheap to replace, and it should be a priced line item you approved beforehand rather than a number invented on your driveway. Everyday shingle roof replacement and gutter replacement are the two calls we take most from Broadview homeowners, usually together, because the gutters on a fifty-year-old house are rarely worth reinstalling.

Storms Do Not Sort By Zoning

When a summer cell tracks across the Eisenhower and Roosevelt corridor it hits the warehouse decks and the bungalows in the same ten minutes. On a membrane roof, hail bruises the sheet and shortens its life without leaking right away. On shingles it knocks granules loose and exposes the mat. Neither one announces itself until months later, which is why we walk both kinds of roof after a storm and photograph what we find whether or not there is anything to file. Storm damage repair and the claim paperwork are covered on the insurance claims page.

Between the warehouses and the houses sits the retail and food service along Roosevelt, and those roofs fail for reasons all their own. Kitchen exhaust puts grease on the membrane downwind of the fan, and grease breaks down single-ply over time in a visible dark ring nobody notices until the sheet goes brittle and cracks at the curb. The fix is not complicated: proper grease containment at the fan, a sacrificial walk pad and target sheet under the discharge, and cleaning it on a schedule rather than when it starts smelling. On a restaurant roof we also plan the work around service hours, because a hood system that has to be down for two hours costs an operator more than the repair does.

Winter is the other thing worth planning for on a big deck. Drifting snow does not spread evenly across a low-slope roof. It piles against parapets, on the low side of a roof step where a taller section meets a shorter one, and behind rooftop units, and those drift loads can run several times the weight of the open field. If a building already ponds in one corner, that is the corner where the snow load concentrates too. We note drift zones and ponding areas in every inspection report and flag whether a drain needs upsizing or an overflow scupper needs to be cut before the next hard winter arrives. That recommendation is free and it is a lot cheaper than the alternative.

Who You Are Actually Hiring

Guardian Roofing Systems is second generation. Angelo Ristich learned the trade from his father Frank, runs the company now, and supervises jobs in person on the commercial side and the residential side both. We can measure by satellite and give you a straight price on the first call for standard work, and larger commercial scopes get a walkthrough before any number goes on paper.

We are BBB A+ rated, hold a HomeAdvisor Elite Service award, and stay licensed and insured in Illinois. The gallery has flat systems, coatings, metal and tear-offs photographed the day they were finished, and we are glad to point you at nearby buildings and houses you can look at yourself. Start on the contact page if calling is inconvenient.