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Free inspection with drone imaging, an on-roof walk, and an attic check. You get written findings and photos to keep.
A lifted flashing seam, a cracked boot around a vent stack, or a blocked soffit vent will not announce itself. By the time a stain reaches a ceiling, water has usually been moving through the roof assembly for a while.
A roof inspection tells you what condition your roof is actually in, and whether the answer is a repair, a replacement, or nothing at all. Royal Craft has been inspecting roofs across Downers Grove and the western suburbs since 1973. The inspection is free, and it ends with written findings and photographs you keep, whether or not you hire us.
Attic condition is the part homeowners skip and the part that explains the most. Poor ventilation is what drives ice damming in a Chicago winter, and it shortens shingle life in July.
Hail and wind damage is often invisible from the driveway. Hail bruises the mat underneath the granules without breaking the shingle, and wind lifts tabs that then lie back down flat. Neither leaks immediately. Both shorten the life of the roof.
We document what we find with dated photographs, so you have a record of the roof’s condition whether you act on it now or not.
If you are considering a claim, an inspection gives you dated photographs and written findings before an adjuster ever gets on the roof. Our guide to filing a roofing insurance claim walks through what the documentation needs to show.
Royal Craft is GAF Certified and carries a BBB A+ Rating. Work we do is backed by a 10-year workmanship warranty and lifetime product warranties.
Royal Craft is based in Downers Grove and inspects roofs across the western suburbs: Downers Grove, Hinsdale, Oak Brook, Clarendon Hills, Glen Ellyn, Westmont, Darien, Woodridge, Burr Ridge, Lisle, Villa Park, Western Springs, La Grange, Wheaton, Lombard, Willowbrook, Addison, Glendale Heights, Hillside, Westchester.
Nothing. The inspection is free, and there is no obligation to book work afterward.
On accessible slopes, yes. Where the pitch, the height, or the roof covering makes walking it a bad idea, we use drone imaging instead. Steep slate and tile roofs are usually inspected from the air for exactly this reason.
Not for the roof itself. We do need access if you want the attic checked, and the attic is where a lot of the useful information is.
No. The written findings and photographs are yours either way.
Then we say so. A roof with ten good years left is a roof with ten good years left, and telling you otherwise is how people end up not trusting roofers.
Tell us the address and what you are seeing. We will come look at it.