VENDOR HIGHLIGHT

Bone Roofing Supply, Inc.

1950 N Narragansett Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60639-3895
773-237-9740


Bone Roofing is located in Chicago, Illinois

Bone Roofing Supply began one evening in September of 1971 over a dinner table in LaGrange Park, Illinois. Claybern and Hope Bone were discussing Clay’s dreams of owning his own roofing supply business, as they had many times before. Clay had worked in the industry for over 20 years. He had always been a salesman, and now he sold his idea to Hope. Clay mentioned he had spotted a warehouse at 4446 W. North Ave. in Chicago and that he had manufacturers in the business who would be willing to sell a new roofing supplier in the city. Mom, being 53, and Dad, being 56, decided that night it was then or never to give it a try. Clay’s whole plan could work except for two real necessities, labor and money.
Clay immediately called Bradley University where his twin boys were sophomores. He asked Jim and Jack to discuss and then decide on coming home the next day to be partners in this venture. The boys rapidly agreed and only then did Hope decide to bet her house on her twin’s ability to provide the labor for Bone Roofing Supply and took out a 2nd mortgage on their house. So, with $20,000.00 in their bank account, the 3 Bone men doing the work, and mom keeping the books, Bone Roofing Supply was born. It quickly became a company built on service and the Bones worked 12 to 14 hour days to give their customers the level of service they have since come to expect. Over the last three decades, the business has consistently grown and acquired the tools necessary to maintain this service level , adding new employees and equipment as warranted.
Meanwhile, there was a new generation of Bones coming into the world and growing up. Each of the 3rd generation Bones have been brought up on the smell of tar and fresh cedar shingles. They’ve gone from riding in the truck with their father on weekends to working in the warehouse or office on school breaks. Unlike the previous generation, the 3rd generation has been required to finish college. They were not allowed to immediately come into the business, but rather were required to get experience in the outside world. Could anyone doubt where at least some of the Bones would end up? When you’re brought up with something almost 24 hours a day, it defines part of who you are.
Two years ago, the first Bone of the 3rd generation came into the business. One year ago his brother joined him. Hope and Clay would be so proud to see the business now, as Jason and Dennis Bone bring into Bone Roofing Supply new concepts and new abilities. Although it will continue to place service as a top priority item, it will also bring in new ideas to keep Bone Roofing Supply a resounding competitor in the Chicago Roofing Supply industry. The rest of Bone Roofing Supply history has yet to be written…

Our customers' workdays begin early, so we start ours at 4:30 a.m. with our dedicated office staff, warehousemen and CDL licensed drivers teaming up before the sun rises to ensure our customers' needs are met daily. It’s part of the Bone service commitment!
It all begins with your order. We make it easy to place your order for pick-up or delivery. Call us at (773) 237-9740, fax an order to (773) 237-9844, send it by email to any of our staff (see contacts page for email addresses) or come into the office to speak with our friendly team members. We also have both Polish and Spanish speakers on staff to take your order!
Once your order is placed, our team checks and rechecks it for accuracy. Bone gives your jobs the time they deserve whether it is studying blueprints, contracts, or completing computerized tapered drawings. The BRS team offers over 300 years of combined knowledge, dedication and experience in the roofing wholesale supply industry to our customers. For questions regarding order contents or delivery issues, the customer is called and/or a Bone delivery specialist visits the jobsite and develops a strategy. The materials are then pulled, broken down into jobsite friendly packages, covered with weatherproof bags, and banded to protect the material. No other supplier makes your material more efficient for onsite use. Your material is always delivered by a professional uniformed driver on our state of the art equipment. It’s part of the Bone service difference. It’s a difference you and your customers can see!
A huge part of the BRS customer advantage is our equipment. We pride ourselves in the appearance and upkeep of our trucks and cranes. We have 9 knuckle boom crane trucks for ground drop deliveries and roof loads up to 4 stories; roof heights of 7-8 stories can be reached by 2 stick boom crane trucks. We have a front loader for factory direct deliveries and transferring material around hard to navigate jobsites. No matter how complicated the delivery Bone Roofing Supply will get it done! Our job is to provide you with stress free material handling and we deliver every time!
Same day delivery? No problem! Emergencies happen on the jobsite. The material you need will be there when you need it! We have warehousemen trained just for these times! Many have CDL licenses and can operate delivery equipment. Did we mention that we stock the broadest inventory in Chicagoland? No other distributor of roofing materials can provide same day service like Bone Roofing Supply! Just part of the Bone advantage!
We are located in Chicago but deliver materials far and wide. Regular deliveries include Lake, Cook, DuPage, Kane, Will, McHenry and Kendall counties. We make deliveries to farther points within Illinois and neighboring states. BRS can assure you your material will be on the jobsite when you need it no matter where that jobsite may be!
The Bone family has built this business on service and we are very proud to continue to set the standard for service in the roofing material distribution industry!

Keep Going America!

Small business is the backbone of America. Employing over 20 million people it is what drives our economy. Small business is the source of new products and procedures. When times get tough small business is able to reinvent itself with a can do spirit to fit an ever changing market. Here at Weber Metals we are heavily invested in the housing market, consequently we have also seen a large drop off in sales, forcing us to become a small manufacturing facility. Investing in machinery that will give us the capabilities we need to be competitive in a global market, We are enjoying the change and are grateful to those companies that have partnered with us.

Proud to be part of a nation that works so hard and never gives up!

12 AWESOME Garden Rooftops

Chicago City Hall is on the list...check out this great article and see some of the other pretty AWESOME roof tops.

http://www.colorcoat-online.com/blog/index.php/2011/02/12-awesome-urban-garden-rooftops/

Service with Precision Quality

Service: at Weber Metals Inc., we strive to service our customers. Precision, quality work in the sheet metal fabrication industry, combined with unmatched turnaround time. A very difficult job to master! With over 25 years of experience we have learned the logistics of product flow and shop setup to deliver custom fabricated metal with incredibly fast turn around time. Combine that with state of the art metal fabrication equipment to provide accurate parts every time, and you get the parts you need when you need them.

Reduces Energy Costs...

Green roofs last longer than conventional roofs, reduce energy costs with natural insulation, create peaceful retreats for people and animals, and absorb storm water, potentially lessening the need for complex and expensive drainage systems. On a wider scale, green roofs improve air quality and help reduce the Urban Heat Island Effect, a condition in which city and suburban developments absorb and trap heat. Anyone who has walked across a scalding parking lot on a hot, summer day has felt one effect of an Urban Heat Island.

The layers of a green roof must, like any roof, accommodate drainage and protect the building from the elements with a waterproof membrane. But they also must create a growing area and potentially provide support, irrigation and root protection barriers while staying as light as possible.

Two types of green roof exist: intensive and extensive. Intensive green roofs are essentially elevated parks. They can sustain shrubs, trees, walkways and benches with their complex structural support, irrigation, drainage and root protection layers. The foot or more of growing medium needed for an intensive green roof creates a load of 80-150 pounds (36-68 kilograms) per square foot. Extensive green roofs are relatively light at 15-50 pounds (7-23 kilograms) per square foot. They support hearty native ground cover that requires little maintenance. Extensive green roofs usually exist solely for their environmental benefits and don't function as accessible rooftop gardens.

One of the most famous American green rooftops, Chicago's City Hall, combines extensive, intensive, and the intermediary semi-intensive systems on one retrofitted roof. Under the Mayor's direction, the City of Chicago's Department of Environment City Hall pilot program kicked off a citywide push to support green rooftop systems with incentives and grants.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science-pictures.htm

Fashionable but are nothing new...

In 1914, architect Frank Lloyd Wright used a roof garden for a Chicago restaurant.

Green roofs are increasingly fashionable, but they're nothing new -- elaborate roof plantings were used in Rome and Mesopotamia 2,500 to 3,000 years ago. The best known were probably the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

Simpler green roofs have also been used for millennia by Scandinavians and Kurds. Homes were made of mud; weeds grew on the mud and created sod that helped keep the home warm or cool.

Going green on your roof will improve visual and aesthetic impact, and can prolong the roof's life. It reduces heat loss in winter and heat gain in summer, and can reduce water runoff by as much as 50 percent while putting to good use an otherwise unused space, providing habitat for birds and butterflies. Using the rooftop expands living space for activities such as dining, recreation and enjoying city views.

The benefits of gardening on the roof are so many that the Environmental Protection Agency is encouraging cities to start roof garden programs. The EPA's goal is decreasing the heat-island effect found in cities, which raises temperatures in urban and suburban areas by several degrees. The agency estimates that increasing an urban area's acreage of planted space by just a few percentage points can lower temperatures several degrees, significantly reducing smog and saving millions of dollars in energy costs.

Some gardens at the J. Paul Getty Museum of Art in Los Angeles are green roofs, too. There's a lush garden on the roof of Chicago's City Hall. Green roofs dot the tops of offices and residences in New York, Philadelphia, Boston and San Francisco. In Washington, there are several buildings with such roofs, including the national headquarters of the American Society of Landscape Architects.

GET goes Bendable and Expandable

Green roofs have been popular in Europe since the 1970's. Today, Europeans have over 100 million square feet of planted roofs. Many of these systems are built-in-place on the roof, making them complex and expensive to install. Faced with soaring energy costs and stormwater management requirements, U.S. building designers and owners are turning to the GreenGrid® modular green roof system – the premier green roof system for high performance buildings. The GreenGrid® modular green roof system is a cost competitive alternative to traditional built-in-place green roofs. A GreenGrid® green roof is composed of a series of preplanted modules made of recycled plastics that can easily be placed directly on a roof or other structure with sufficient structural capacity. The system meets the needs and requirements of industrial/commercial, government, institutional, and residential buildings. Weber has been in partnership with Green Grid producing their metal edge treatment for several years. We now have a variety of straight edge, mitres, and joiner pieces to offer. Our latest component is a bendable edge that can be shaped on location to fit curved landscapes. What is Green Roof Edge Treatment? Modular roof gardens are installed using plastic or metal trays. These trays are laid out in a grid pattern to create a garden. This leaves the sides of the trays exposed. GET is designed to enhance the architectural beauty of your garden by providing an upright standing edge that enhances the beauty and stability of your garden. It is available in three standard sizes and twenty-seven different colors. With our new GET-3, a bendable edge system that can be formed in the field to fit any shape or size, the possibilities are limited to the available space and your creativity!