The storm passes, the heavy winds die down, and the sun finally comes back out over McHenry County. You walk outside to inspect the damage and see that a heavy hailstorm really did a number on your neighborhood. Trees are stripped of their leaves, patio furniture is...
Living in Northern Illinois means dealing with extreme weather on a year-round basis. While homeowners tend to panic the most about massive hailstorms or heavy winter blizzards, wind is often the most consistent and destructive force attacking your home. In McHenry...
When homeowners walk around the outside of their house and look up at the roofline, they usually only pay attention to two things: the shingles and the gutters. If the shingles look relatively flat and the gutters are not falling off the house, everything seems...
When most people think of a roof leak, they picture a very dramatic, immediate emergency. They imagine a heavy summer thunderstorm rolling through Northern Illinois, a sudden crack of thunder, and a steady stream of water pouring directly out of the living room...
When a homeowner notices a water stain on their ceiling, their first instinct is usually to blame the shingles. They walk out into the yard, stare up at the roof, and look for a massive hole, a missing patch of asphalt, or a tree branch sticking out of the roof deck....
If you have ever had to climb the pull-down stairs into your attic in the middle of a Northern Illinois July to find an old box of photos, you know exactly what a poorly ventilated attic feels like. You pop your head up through the hatch, and it feels like you just...
Let us be completely honest: absolutely nobody enjoys cleaning their gutters. It is arguably the most annoying, messy, and physically frustrating chore of homeownership. You have to drag a heavy aluminum ladder out of the garage, balance it precariously in the mud,...
When it is time to put a new roof on a house, homeowners often head down to the local big-box hardware store to look at the different material options. They walk down the building supplies aisle, pick up a heavy bundle of architectural asphalt shingles, and look at...
It is a familiar summer evening ritual in Northern Illinois. The sky turns a strange, bruised shade of green, the tornado sirens start wailing in the distance, and suddenly it sounds like someone is dumping buckets of golf balls onto your house. Severe thunderstorms...
It happens every year. We get a massive snowstorm across Northern Illinois, the temperature drops into the single digits, and the phone at Peerless Roofing Inc. starts ringing. On the other end of the line is a panicked homeowner. They went up to their attic to grab...
