The Palos Heights year
Spring arrives with the trail runners and cyclists on the Cal-Sag trail and the first festivals at Lake Katherine, the nature center on the channel's north bank, where the city's events staff approve any unit placed near the gardens. Summer brings the concerts and the July festival at the city's parks, the college's summer camps, and the run of backyard graduation parties on the ranch-house blocks between Harlem and Ridgeland. Construction follows the usual suburban curve, April through Thanksgiving, with a large share of it being additions and rebuilds on the wooded lots near the preserves.
Fall is homecoming at the college and the high school on 127th, and winter is quiet except for interior remodels that keep a unit on the driveway.
Placing units in Palos Heights
There are no alleys here; the driveway is the spot on almost every residential job, with the unit set at the garage end and the door turned toward the house. Lots near the preserves are wooded and sloped, and drivers carry plywood pads to level a unit on a grade. Trail and lakeside events use the paved lots off Harlem and 127th, since the trail corridor and the nature center grounds are controlled by the city and the water reclamation district and units are not placed on the path itself. College events go through campus facilities, which marks the placement on College Drive.
Picking a unit for a Palos Heights job
A standard unit covers rebuild crews and roofers. Graduation parties lean toward the deluxe flushing unit with a handwashing station by the patio. For a wedding at one of the larger homes near the preserve, the climate-controlled luxury restroom trailer parks on the driveway and plugs into an exterior outlet. Trail races and the Lake Katherine festivals need rows of standard units with an ADA accessible unit at each cluster, placed on pavement near the finish or the entrance so runners and families reach them without crossing the trail.