How far is Streamwood from your base in Des Plaines?
About 14 miles. We don't run a depot in Streamwood, so every job starts as a drive from Des Plaines. We factor that into scheduling rather than promising a same-hour arrival we can't back up.
The Houses Here
Streamwood's housing stock centers on a median build year of 1981, which puts it a decade or two newer than much of the wider service area we work in, where homes commonly date to the 1960s and 1970s. That gap matters more than it sounds. A door and opener installed in a house built in 1981 has usually been through at least one replacement cycle already, sometimes two, and what's on the house now is rarely the builder-grade unit that went up with the frame. You get a mix: some original hardware that's outlived its spec life, some mid-2000s openers bolted onto older track, and the occasional full replacement done right. With 13,041 households in Streamwood, that's a lot of individual histories, not one uniform story. When we come out, we're not guessing based on a decade-old assumption about what's behind the door - we're looking at what's actually there, which in this town skews newer than the region's overall median of 1972.