Summit & Slate Roofing installs and repairs tile & slate roofing across Glen Ellyn, from Lake Ellyn Park to the Illinois Prairie Path. 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 sits on some of DuPage County's higher, hill-and-ravine ground, so wind catches the steep gables on its older homes harder than on flatter streets nearby. Winters bring repeated freeze-thaw swings and heavy ice damming along the deep eaves common on 1920s-1950s houses. Summer storms tracking off the prairie deliver pea-to-quarter-size hail and 60-plus mph gusts. The dense, mature tree canopy keeps north slopes damp, which shortens shingle life and feeds moss in shaded valleys.
What our Glen Ellyn tile & slate roofing includes
Every Tile & Slate Roofing job in Glen Ellyn includes:
Natural Slate Roofing
We install quarried slate in standard and graduated patterns, the kind found on Wheaton's century-old homes. Real slate carries a 75 to 100-plus year service life, and we use copper or stainless fasteners and copper flashing so the metal outlasts the stone instead of failing first.
Concrete and Clay Tile
Concrete and clay tile give you a 50-plus year roof at a lower price point than natural slate, and they suit both the Mediterranean-style homes and newer custom builds around Naperville. We carry interlocking profiles rated for the wind and hail this region sees every summer.
Structural Load Assessment
Before any tile or slate goes up, we determine whether your framing can carry 700 to 1,500 pounds per square. When it cannot, we coordinate engineered reinforcement and pull the proper DuPage or city of Wheaton permits so the install is fully code-compliant.
Slate Roof Repair and Restoration
Most failing slate roofs in Glen Ellyn and Wheaton do not need replacement, they need the flashing, valleys, and broken individual slates addressed. We match salvaged or new slate by thickness and color and replace failed nails before water reaches the deck.
Copper Flashing and Valleys
Slate and tile last a century, but galvanized flashing rusts through in 20 to 30 years. We flash chimneys, valleys, and sidewalls in copper or stainless so the weakest part of the system is built to match the lifespan of the roof itself.
How much does Tile & Slate Roofing cost in Glen Ellyn, IL?
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