Bartlett Roof Pros provides professional chimney flashing in Bartlett, IL for residential and commercial properties across the tri-county northwest suburbs. Chimneys are the most reliable leak in this village, and the 1990s subdivisions built nearly all of them the same way, which means they are failing the same way too. They all fail the same way too.
What is up there is usually not masonry. It is a framed chase clad in siding, capped with a folded metal chase cover, with a direct-vent or Class A flue coming through it. Fast and cheap to build. The chase cover is the failure point, because most of them were folded flat with no crown, so water sits on them and they rust through from the top down.
The cover is the failure point. Flashing it properly is not complicated, it is just laborious. Step flashing woven in course by course, one piece per shingle, never a continuous L. Counterflashing let into a reglet cut in masonry or lapped correctly behind the siding on a chase. Sealant is a maintenance item on top of a working detail, never the detail itself. Sealant is maintenance, never the detail.
The insulation work changes this too. When a plane's deck is built up, every vertical leg of step flashing has to grow to clear the new surface with proper height remaining above it. Reusing the old flashing on a thickened deck leaves you a quarter inch of upstand and a guaranteed callback. New deck height means new flashing. The other thing we look for is a cricket.
Once a chase gets much beyond two and a half feet wide it wants a framed saddle on its upslope face, dividing runoff rather than holding it, and the tract builders here left them off almost universally. That missing cricket is why a chase two feet up the slope is holding a wet triangle of debris behind it. Almost none of them were built with one.
A blunt piece of advice: a new chase cover with a proper crown plus a framed cricket runs a few hundred dollars. The drywall, insulation and framing repair it prevents runs into the thousands. It is the best-value work we do and almost nobody asks for it. It is unglamorous, nobody asks for it by name, and it is the best value per dollar on this entire list. Nobody ever asks for it by name.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — R-30 continuous polyisocyanurate above the deck, nail-base insulated roof sheathing panels, 7/16-inch oriented strand board decking, self-adhered ice barrier membrane at the eave, dense-packed cellulose blown to R-49, unvented cathedral assembly with closed-cell foam — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Bartlett and nearby communities including Streamwood, Hanover Park, Schaumburg, Hoffman Estates.
What We Handle
Everything our chimney flashing in Bartlett covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of chimney flashing work in Bartlett, IL. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- chimney flashing Bartlett
- chimney leak repair
- step flashing chimney
- chimney chase cover
- counterflashing reglet
- chimney cricket saddle
- masonry chimney flashing
- chase cover rust
- chimney flashing replacement
- roof chimney leak
- chimney flashing Bartlett IL
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Bartlett services.
Materials, equipment and how we do chimney flashing
The difference between chimney flashing that lasts and chimney flashing that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with R-30 continuous polyisocyanurate above the deck, nail-base insulated roof sheathing panels, 7/16-inch oriented strand board decking, self-adhered ice barrier membrane at the eave, spec them to the job instead of to the invoice, and write the material grades into the free estimate so you know exactly what you are buying.
Every Bartlett job runs the same way: site walk and measurements, written scope and fixed price, protection of the surrounding area, then the work itself with a daily clean-up. Years of roofing work in the tri-county northwest suburbs means we have already met whatever your property is going to throw at us — awkward access, older construction, an HOA with opinions.
Where we do chimney flashing outside Bartlett
Bartlett Roof Pros covers Bartlett and the surrounding communities of the tri-county northwest suburbs. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- Chimney Flashing in Streamwood, IL — Cook County, population 39,577
- Chimney Flashing in Hanover Park, IL — Cook County, population 37,470
- Chimney Flashing in Schaumburg, IL — Cook County, population 78,723
- Chimney Flashing in Hoffman Estates, IL — Cook County, population 52,530
- Chimney Flashing in Elk Grove Village, IL — Cook County, population 32,812
- Chimney Flashing in Rolling Meadows, IL — Cook County, population 24,200
Start on the Bartlett Roof Pros homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Bartlett Chooses Bartlett Roof Pros
- ✓We quote the sheathing question in advance, per sheet and per plane, so no homeowner in this village learns what a roof plane costs on the morning it is opened.
- ✓Every roof gets a written plane count sorted into attic-above and cathedral-above, because those two categories carry insulation obligations that differ by thousands of dollars.
- ✓We will not swap a sheet of decking as a courtesy. That single free panel is what converts an eight-hundred-dollar repair into an envelope project, and we say so up front.
- ✓We do not coat asphalt shingle roofs. It seals moisture into the mat, ends the manufacturer warranty, and costs you the clean tear-off you would otherwise have had.
The standards behind chimney flashing
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The chimney flashing work we do in Bartlett follows published industry standards: NRCA publishes the Roofing Manual, the industry's reference for details and slope minimums, and Asphalt Roofing Manufacturers Association sets the shingle application and ventilation guidance the warranties reference. If a contractor cannot tell you which standard a detail comes from, that is worth asking about before you sign.
Every chimney flashing project in Bartlett gets the same attention, whether it is a single room or a full commercial job. We show up on schedule, keep the site clean, and stand behind the work — the estimate is free and there is no pressure.
Ready to get started? Call (844) 511-2320 for a free chimney flashing free estimate in Bartlett, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.