Roofing in Clinton, IA

Clinton was one of the wealthiest lumber towns in the country in the 1880s and the Lyons district still carries the houses that money built. Eight in ten homes in the city predate 1980 and the median build year is in the 1950s.

Grand Roofs on Old Money Houses

The historic districts here hold genuine slate, real turrets, and roof shapes that a modern crew rarely meets. Those buildings are worth restoring rather than replacing, and a slate roof that is losing individual slates usually needs a slater and not a tear off.

Where the structure cannot justify real slate any longer, synthetic slate keeps the shape and the shadow at a quarter of the weight.

And a Great Deal of Ordinary Old Housing

Away from the grand streets, Clinton is mostly modest pre war and post war houses, many of them on their third roof. Plank decking, old chimneys and additions are the recurring themes, the same as the older parts of Davenport.

What We Get Called For in Clinton

• Slate repair and synthetic slate replacement in the historic districts
• Deck repair on very old housing stock
• Chimney flashing failures on pre war brick

The Numbers for Clinton

Every figure below is a real Census estimate for this exact place. Nothing here is modeled, interpolated or borrowed from the county.