Roofing in Rock Island, IL

Rock Island has the oldest housing of anywhere in this metro. The median home was built in the early 1950s and close to nine in ten predate 1980. The Broadway Historic District holds some of the finest roofs in the Quad Cities and some of the most demanding.

The Broadway Historic District

Large late nineteenth century houses with steep slopes, turrets, dormers, bay roofs, decorative shingle patterns and real slate. These are roofs that were built by people who expected them to last a century, and many of them have.

Work on these buildings is restoration more than replacement. A slate roof losing slates usually needs individual slates reset rather than a tear off, and anybody who suggests stripping a sound slate roof for asphalt should be asked to leave.

And the Ordinary Streets Around Them

Most of Rock Island is modest older housing. Small footprints, simple roofs, plank decking and chimneys that have not been reflashed since they were built.

Those are short jobs with a predictable set of surprises, and the right way to handle them is to expect the surprises in the estimate.

What We Get Called For in Rock Island

• Slate repair and restoration in the Broadway district
• Very old decking found during tear off
• Chimney counter flashing cut into brick rather than sealed to it

The Numbers for Rock Island

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