On the ground in Granite City
Why do so many Granite City roofs need replacing?
Granite City grew fast as a planned steel-mill town in the early 1900s and again through the 1960s, so much of its housing, from the turn-of-the-century homes near Wilson Park to the 1960s brick ranches in Wilshire Manor, carries roofs well past their original twenty-to-thirty-year life.
That older housing stock is why a working roofer matters here. The oldest neighborhoods, Lincoln Place and the Wilson Park area, date to Granite City's founding around 1896, while the eastern subdivisions toward Pontoon Beach are newer. Madison County Roofing has seen every roof age and pitch the town has, and matches the shingle and flashing to the house rather than selling one system to everyone.