Diagnose the roof before naming a product
Champaign County's tornado and straight-line wind history means the deck, the fastening pattern, and the flashing age usually matter more to a repair-versus-replace call here than the shingle brand does.
Put the whole job in writing
- What the inspection actually found
- How the crew stages and protects the site
- Materials rated for central-Illinois wind exposure
- Permit, inspection, and disposal steps
- What counts as a change order and how it's priced
Champaign context
Champaign was founded in 1855, and the housing and roofing stock built across the century and a half since spans everything from 19th-century framing to modern manufactured trusses. With Illinois averaging dozens of tornadoes a year and Champaign County recording 79 between 1950 and 2019, roofs across every construction era in the Champaign-Urbana area face real storm and wind exposure.