Moisture Intrusion, Masonry
& Roof Repair in Uptown, Chicago

The WickRight General Contracting team has been fixing moisture intrusion issues, as well as assisting homeowners and property owners in Uptown, Buena Park, Clarendon Park, Margate Park, New Chinatown and Sheridan Park with all of their carpentry, masonry and roofing services since 2015. We are the leading carpentry, roofing and masonry contractor in Uptown. Homeowners, commerial building owners and property management companies can trust us for everything from simple door pan flashing installation to rebuilding parapets to roof replacement and truss repair. We take earning your trust very seriously. Call WickRight General Contracting at 312-720-1467 to get the job done right, the first time.

Since 2012, WickRight owner and lead moisture intrusion repair specialist, Bob Kelly has evaluated over 400 buildings around Chicago. Of those 400 buildings, WickRight Passive Ventilation® has been installed on over 100 buildings, including single family homes, multi-family homes, mixed use buildings and commercial buildings. All of those buildings are now dry or in the process of drying.

Click to read testimonials about the quality of our work and courteous crews, as well as the performance of our venting and flashing products. Currently we have three projects in progress in Chicago, two in Lincoln Park, and one in West Town.

One of the projects includes a 365 Construction Tent, to protect the interior of the building while structural improvements are made. We also have one large-scale project in progress on the North Shore, repairing extensive moisture intrusion damage on a home with a stucco exterior and a window repair project scheduled to begin in Evanston.

We've evaluated 11 multi-family buildings and 2 commercial buildings in Uptown.

Click here to read testimonials from 2 clients in Uptown

One 10-unit, multi-family building was of common brick construction, built in the 1950s. We installed WickRight parapet venting under the limestone capstones on the front elevation and under the clay coping tiles on the side elevations. We also installed WickRight Roof Vent along perimeter parapets. In addition, we replaced the leaking metal window cladding to weatherproof the building. Later this year, we will be fixing a failing masonry wall. 

An 8-unit, multi-family building we worked on in Uptown was built in the late 1990s. The front elevation is constructed of a brick facade and block structural wall, with a lot of Renaissance Stone details. The side and rear elevations are also brick facade with a block structural wall with Renaissance Stone window headers and sills.

The repairs we made at this building included:

Roof membrane repairs and replacement

Scupper repairs and replacement

Truss repairs

Pitch pan repairs

Installation of WickRight Capstone Vented Drip Edge under parapet capstones

Installation of WickRight Roof Vent along perimeter of parapet walls

Masonry spot grinding and re-pointing

Masonry sealant application

Window Repairs

Installation of door pan flashings on Rooftop stairwell buildings

One recommended repair that was not in the budget was to shore up the balcony connections on the rear elevation. If you have balconies hanging from brick, be sure to look at the brick around the connection. If the bricks are cracking, the balcony may not be safe. Remove heavy objects from the balcony and restrict use until a qualified contractor says it is safe to use. Even after repair, be mindful of the number of people on the balcony at the same time.

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For more than a decade, WickRight General Contracting has been offering expert moisture intrusion diagnosis, masonry and roofing repair services in the Uptown neighborhood. We deliver excellent results at reasonable prices.

Our service list includes the following:

• Moisture Intrusion Diagnosis

• Moisture Intrusion Repair

• Building Envelope Analysis

• Building Evaluation

• Wet Building Consulting

• Roof Consulting

• Masonry Consulting

• Masonry Repair

• Masonry Sealant Application

• Parapet Repair

• Parapet Flashing and Ventilation

• Flat Roof Construction

• Flat Roof Repair

• Flat Roof Ventilation

• Flat Roof Maintenance

• Scupper Repair

• Gutter Repair and installation

Interesting Information About Uptown

Uptown's boundaries are Foster on the north; Lake Michigan on the east; Montrose Clark and Irving Park on the south; Ravenswood and Clark St on the west. Surrounding communities include: Edgewater, Lincoln Square, and Lakeview. The area has a mix of commercial and residential development, and includes a well established entertainment district of clubs and concert venues, and was a center for early movie making. Truman College a two year city college is located here, and the area's south-western end includes Graceland Cemetery.

The historical, cultural, and commercial center of Uptown is Broadway, with Uptown Square at the center. In 1900, Uptown became a summer resort town for downtown dwellers, and got its name from the Uptown Store, which was the commercial center for the community.

Uptown became known for entertainment. Charlie Chaplin, Gloria Swanson and other early film stars produced films at Essanay Studios on Argyle Street. Since the 1920's Uptown has been a filming location for nearly 500 movies of an genres.

Beginning at the turn of the 20th century, just after the World's Columbian Exposition, the entire area experienced a housing construction boom. In the mid-1920s, construction of luxurious entertainment venues resulted in many of the ornate and historic Uptown Square buildings which still exist today. The craftsmanship and artistry of those Uptown Square buildings reflects the ornate pavilions of the Exposition.

For over a century, Uptown has been a popular Chicago entertainment district, which played a significant role in ushering in the Gilded Age, the American Lyceum movement, the jazz age, the silent film era, the big band era, and now the rock era.

The Uptown Entertainment District is home to music venues, nightclubs, restaurants and shops. Uptown Square was designated as a National Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. Uptown is a stop for Chicago Gangster tours, with many locations tied to infamous gangsters such as John Dillinger, Al Capone, Machine Gun Jack McGurn, Roger Touhy ("Terrible Touhy") and others.

The Aragon Ballroom, located at Lawrence and Winthrop has been a popular music venue since 1920. During the 1920's and 30's, many well-known jazz groups played at the Aragon. The Aragon used live radio broadcasts to promote entertainers. Hotels were built to serve music lovers visiting Chicago to dance to Big Bands in the 1940's and 50's. Frank Sinatra, Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Lawrence Welk and Guy Lombardo played at the Aragon.

The Riviera Theater, also a popular music venue, that was originally a Jazz Age movie theatre which featured live jazz performances with the movies. In the 1980s, the "Riv" was converted into a concert venue and all the seating was removed on the main floor.

The Uptown Theatre, the largest theatre in Chicago, is an ornate and boasts around 4,500 seats. It is on several Landmark Registers. The Uptown Theatre was designed by famous architects, Rapp and Rapp, who also designed the Chicago Theatre in the Chicago Loop.

The Green Mill Cocktail Lounge is located on the site of a much bigger Green Mill Gardens complex, which was an outdoor music gardens fashioned after The Moulin Rouge Gardens in Paris. The club was once owned by "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn, a right-hand man of Al Capone. The Green Mill still hosts top jazz performers and a weekly Poetry Slam.

By the 1950s, the middle class was leaving Uptown the suburbs. Uptown's housing stock was aging, and old mansions were subdivided. Residential hotels which had housed wives of sailors attached to the Great Lakes Naval Station during World War II now housed low-income migrants from the South and Appalachia. Uptown developed a reputation as "Hillbilly Heaven" in the 1950s and the 1960s. The Council of the Southern Mountains, headquartered in Berea, Kentucky, launched the Chicago Southern Center in 1963.

Buena Park is an Uptown neighborhood bounded by Montrose, Irving Park, Graceland Cemetery and Lake Shore Drive. The Hutchinson Street Historic District, a tree-lined stretching several blocks long features mansions called "one of the best collections of Prairie-style architecture in the city" is surrounded by skyscrapers. Buena Park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. Robert A. Waller developed Buena Park in 1887 by subdividing his property

The Sheridan Park neighborhood is bounded by Lawrence, Clark, Montrose and Broadway. It's mostly residential, with single family homes and courtyard apartment buildings. Truman College is located in Sheridan Park. The Sheridan Park Historic District was established in In 1985, to protect the unique single-family and smaller multi-family architecture of the area. In 2007, the Chicago City Council approved the Dover Street Historic District in Sheridan Park, to protect homes on three northern blocks of Dover Street and several single-family homes on Beacon Street from demolition and modification of properties without the approval of the Chicago Landmarks Commission.

The Argyle neighborhood is known as "Asia on Argyle," "Little Saigon" and "Little Vietnam", and is mostly populated by Vietnamese, Cambodian and ethnic Chinese minorities. Argyle Square hosts Asian grocery stores as well as  Vietnamese, Thai, Laotian, and Chinese restaurants. The neighborhood should not be confused with Chinatown on the South Side of Chicago.

Margate Park is situated in the northeast corner of Uptown. Its tree-lined streets, features historic mansions, and beautiful mid-rise buildings from the early 1900s. This diverse housing also includes ornate terra-cotta clad buildings, shown in early 20th century  movies as apartment hotels and boarding houses. Some of these 1920s hotels have since been converted to high-end condos. Margate Park has a Lake Shore Drive underpass near the Margate Playground, east of Marine Dr, for easy access to the lakefront path, as well as Foster and Lawrence beaches.

Zip Codes for Uptown:  60640

Uptown neighborhood, Chicago, Illinois New Roof Construction

Roof replacement can be a stressful time for a property owner. That stress can be even more pronounced when they live in the high traffic areas like Uptown! However, when you work with the right roofing team – WickRight General Contracting – it is stress free. We’ve been performing roofing and masonry repairs in an around Uptown for over a decade and have never met a challenge we couldn’t overcome. Call 312-720-1467 today to schedule a consultation with our expert, building consultant, Bob Kelly. He’ll explain all your options and answer any questions you may have. We hope you’ll choose WickRight for your roof repair project.

Uptown neighborhood, Chicago, Illinois Roof Repair

If you have a leaking roof in the Uptown neighborhood, call 312-720-1467 to have an expert estimators from WickRight General Contracting visit your property for a roof consultation. They’ll provide an estimate along with a detailed explanation of the needed roof repair. We’ll handle the work with professionalism and courtesy for a reasonable price and stand behind our work 100%. Don’t settle for second best when WickRight General Contracting is just a phone call away!

Uptown neighborhood, Chicago, Illinois Roof Maintenance

With all the flat roofing found throughout the Uptown neighborhood, it’s a place where proactive roof maintenance is in high demand. We offer the best in roof maintenance plans designed specifically for your building. Call 312-720-1467 today to find out how one our specialized roof maintenance plans can extend the useful life of your roof membrane.

Types of Roofing we repair and install in the Uptown

WickRight General Contracting is committed to providing customers with quality workmanship and top notch customer service. It’s that level of dedication that has made us the area’s top-rated roofing and masonry repair service – as well as Uptown's favorite moisture intrusion repair company. We install a full line of roofing systems and will assist you in choosing what’s best for your roof.

Here are the types of roofs we repair and install:

• Single-Ply Roofing

• Asphalt Shingles

• EPDM Roofing

• Fluid-Applied Membranes

• Cool Roof Coatings

• Modified Bitumen

• TPO Roofing

• PVC Roofing

Uptown Chicago, Illinois Scupper and Gutter Installation & Repair

WickRight General Contracting offers excellent scupper and gutter services at reasonable prices. Call 312-720-1467 today for an estimate from an expert. Then make the best decision for your property with all the facts you need. Scuppers are a WickRight specialty! We have equipment for accessing scupper that allows us to repair scuppers better than any other contractor working in the Uptown neighborhood. Your scupper and gutters are too important to entrust to just anyone, so give us a call and get the peace of mind you deserve.

Uptown neighborhood, Chicago, Illinois Masonry Repair

WickRight General Contracting offers excellent masonry, brick, block, split face block, concrete block, and stone services, as well as glass block repair services at reasonable prices in the Uptown neighborhood. Call 312-720-1467 today for an estimate from an expert. If your masonry walls are cracking, you may need ventilation installed on your parapets to release moisture vapor. The capstones, metal copings or clay tiles on top of your parapet walls may be leaking, causing the parapet walls to become wet and leak into your home. The mortar in your masonry walls may need tuckpointing or re-pointing. Your building may have shifted and the expansion joints need to be repaired. Give us a call and have a building evaluation performed so you can keep your building dry and plan for any necessary repairs. We also repair and replace glass block.

Uptown neighborhood, Chicago, Illinois Masonry Maintenance

All buildings require maintenance. Masonry buildings may seem to be maintenance free because they last for hundreds of years. But make no mistake, to remain issue-free, safe and dry, masonry buildings need maintenance. Every 30 years or so, historic masonry buildings need to have the mortar ground out of the mortar joints and re-pointed with lime mortar. Masonry buildings built after 1950 need maintenance every 20 years or so, depending on the craftsmanship. But masonry buildings built since 1990 need specialized services to mitigate water and moisture intrusion. Buildings built with split face block and other modern masonry products like "jumbo brick" which is brick-colored concrete and "Renaissance Stone" which is pre-cast concrete need maintenance more often than buildings constructed with common brick or buildings with a brick facade and block structural wall. WickRight General Contracting offers excellent split face block and pre-cast concrete maintenance services at reasonable prices in Uptown. Call 312-720-1467 today for an estimate.

Uptown, Chicago, Illinois Masonry Sealant Applications

Not all masonry buildings require sealant, but if you own a building built after 1990, chances are at least one wall is constructed with modern materials like split face block or jumbo block, the parapet walls may have be finished with capstones that look like limestone, but are actually Renaissance Stone or pre-cast concrete or there are decorative details on the building that look like limestone, but are actually Renaissance Stone or pre-cast concrete. All of these modern materials are highly porous and prone to absorbing rain water which moves through these materials and into your building. If your Uptown home is experiencing mysterious leaks, give WickRight General Contracting a call 312-720-1467. Your building may need parapet ventilation installed, custom flashings designed to divert bulk water and masonry sealant to help the mortar and the block resist moisture intrusion and wind driven rain. WickRight General Contracting installs masonry sealants, including clear sealants, like Chemtrete, Prosoco and various elastomeric paints, like Modac, sometimes called "plugger" paints.

Uptown neighborhood, Chicago, Illinois Split Face Block Repair

Many masonry buildings built in the Uptown neighborhood since 1990 are wet. These wet buildings need specialized services to mitigate water and moisture intrusion. Buildings built with split face block and other modern masonry products like "jumbo brick" which is brick-colored concrete and "Renaissance Stone" which is pre-cast concrete need ventilation to release moisture trapped in the building's walls and roof system. We recommend installing WickRight passive ventilation on buildings built with split face block, concrete block, jumbo block and Renaissance Stone or precast concrete. Buildings built with split face block, concrete block, jumbo block also need to be sealed with masonry sealant. Renaissance stone and pre-cast concrete are difficult to seal, so we suggest covering these details with sheet metal or designing custom flashings to divert water and rain away from these materials. WickRight General Contracting offers excellent split face block and pre-cast concrete repair services at reasonable prices. Call 312-720-1467 today for an estimate.

WickRight General Contracting – trusted building evaluation, leak diagnosis, roofing and masonry contractor in the Uptown

Why work with just any contractor when you can rely on WickRight General Contracting? We are a full service building evaluation, leak diagnosis and engineering services provider, that is also a Illinois licensed roofer and masonry contractor. Get the peace of mind you deserve working with a reliable company that always goes above and beyond expectations. Call 312-720-1467 to schedule a building evaluation today.

We offer:

The Best Roofers In Uptown

The Best Masons  In Uptown

The Best Masonry Sealant Installers In Uptown

The Best WickRight Installers  In Uptown

Respectful & Courteous Crews

Trustworthy, Dependable Timetables

Fully Licensed & Insured Crews

Our Service Areas:

Chicago North Side neighborhoods

Evanston

North Chicago Suburbs

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