Greyscape Property Maintenance LLC

About Greyscape Property Maintenance LLC

On a January morning the Fox River smokes — open water steaming under a cold sky while both banks go white beside it. Carpentersville climbs away from that water in either direction, and every hill street means a driveway with a pitch to it, the kind that has to be cleared all the way or not at all. So it gets cleared all the way: plowed out to the edges, shoveled at the stoop, salted where the grade would otherwise turn to glass by afternoon. Property maintenance in winter is mostly about the twenty feet between a door and a car, and about getting there before anybody has to think about it. When the sun finally comes up over the east bank, the pavement is already dark and dry.