Summit & Slate Roofing roofs homes across Glen Ellyn, an older, hilly village in central DuPage County west of Lombard, with in-house crews, firm written pricing, and a 25-year workmanship warranty. Most Glen Ellyn homeowners get a real estimate from satellite, without a sales visit.
Glen Ellyn is one of the older villages in the western suburbs, and the roofs show it. Walk the streets around Lake Ellyn or Old Town and you see steep gables, deep eaves, dormers, and complex valleys on homes built between the 1920s and 1950s. Those rooflines look great and shed snow well, but they collect ice at the eaves and they take real skill to reroof correctly. We work on these houses every week, so we know where the leaks start before you do.
Glen Ellyn is one of the older villages in the western suburbs, and the roofs show it. Walk the streets around Lake Ellyn or Old Town and you see steep gables, deep eaves, dormers, and complex valleys on homes built between the 1920s and 1950s. Those rooflines look great and shed snow well, but they collect ice at the eaves and they take real skill to reroof correctly. We work on these houses every week, so we know where the leaks start before you do.
The village sits on higher, rolling ground than much of flat DuPage County, with ravines and hills around the lake and the Prairie Path. That elevation means the steep slopes on Glen Ellyn homes catch summer storm wind harder than roofs a few miles east in Lombard or Wheaton. After a derecho or a quarter-size hail run, the south and west faces here are usually the first to bruise. We inspect every slope, not just the one the homeowner noticed.
Glen Ellyn also has a mature tree canopy that most newer Naperville subdivisions do not. The shade is part of why people love these neighborhoods, but it keeps north-facing slopes damp, grows moss in the valleys, and drops debris that clogs gutters and rots fascia. A roof here lasts longer when the system is built for moisture and the gutters are sized for that runoff, not just nailed on as an afterthought.
Summit & Slate Roofing roofs homes across Glen Ellyn, an older, hilly village in central DuPage County west of Lombard, with in-house crews, firm written pricing, and a 25-year workmanship warranty. Most Glen Ellyn homeowners get a real estimate from satellite, without a sales visit.
Where we work in Glen Ellyn
Map: Glen Ellyn service area · project pins
Old Town / downtown Glen Ellyn · Stacy's Corners · the Lake Ellyn area · Ben Franklin / Hawthorne school neighborhoods · Forest Glen · the Prairie Path corridor near Main Street ·
Numbers are completed Summit & Slate Roofing projects per area.
How much does a new roof cost in Glen Ellyn, IL?
Summit & Slate Roofing roofs homes across Glen Ellyn, an older, hilly village in central DuPage County west of Lombard, with in-house crews, firm written pricing, and a 25-year workmanship warranty. Most Glen Ellyn homeowners get a real estimate from satellite, without a sales visit.
Typical Glen Ellyn home
Replacement range
Days on site
Ranch or single storySimple gable, single layer
$13,000 to $20,750
1 to 2
Two-story colonialModerate pitch, two layers
$19,200 to $30,050
2 to 3
Steep or cut-up roofMultiple valleys, dormers
$28,500 to $44,000
3 to 4
Glen Ellyn roofing permits run through the Village of Glen Ellyn Building Division. We pull the permit and schedule the final inspection for you.
Storm or hail damage?
Glen Ellyn sees higher-ground wind exposure, heavy eave ice dams, and summer hail off the prairie. If a storm hits, we document the damage, meet your adjuster on the roof, and handle the claim paperwork start to finish. You pay your deductible, never the difference.
Most full asphalt shingle replacements in Glen Ellyn run $13,000 to $44,000. The older homes around Old Town and Lake Ellyn land higher because of steep pitches, multiple dormers, and deep eaves that need more labor, ice-and-water shield, and flashing. A simpler ranch near Stacy's Corners costs less. We give a firm written price after measuring, with no sales visit required.
Yes. The Village of Glen Ellyn requires a building permit for roof replacement, and the village holds tear-offs to its code, including ice-barrier requirements at the eaves. We pull the permit, handle the inspection, and make sure the work passes. If your home is in or near a historic-conscious block downtown, we account for that in the plan so there are no surprises.
The 1920s-1950s housing stock here has deep eaves and steep gables that hold snow, plus older attics that often lack the insulation and ventilation balance modern roofs need. Warm air melts snow up high, it refreezes at the cold eave, and water backs up under the shingles. We fix the cause with eave ice-and-water membrane, balanced intake and ridge ventilation, and proper attic insulation, not just a new layer of shingles.
A typical Glen Ellyn home takes one to three days. Steeper Old Town and Lake Ellyn roofs with several dormers and valleys take the longer end because the cuts and flashing are slower to do right. We use our own in-house crews, never subcontractors, so the same trained team is on your roof start to finish and the cleanup is done before we leave.
For most homes here we install GAF architectural shingles, which handle the freeze-thaw swings and the summer hail and wind far better than old three-tab. As a GAF Master Elite contractor, top two percent in the country, we can back the system with a 25-year transferable workmanship warranty. On the steepest historic gables, a heavier impact-rated shingle or standing-seam metal is worth pricing out for the long term.
It is common in Glen Ellyn because of the heavy tree canopy keeping north slopes damp. Light streaking is usually algae and mostly cosmetic, but real moss lifts shingle edges and traps moisture, which shortens roof life. We inspect the deck underneath before deciding. Often the fix is cleaning, better ventilation, and trimming overhang, not a full replacement, and we will tell you straight which one you need.