Serving Buckley & Hanover Township
Buckley is a small railroad and lumber village in open country, and it's growing. Whether your house is in the village or out on a rural lot, here's how we look after its roof, siding and gutters.
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Our office is at 104 S Union Street Suite 208 in downtown Traverse City. From there, Buckley is about 20 miles south, usually around half an hour straight down M-37, just over the Grand Traverse County line.
That's close enough for an easy estimate visit, and close enough that if a storm damages the roof, you're not waiting on a crew from two hours away. If something needs a second look after the job's done, coming back is a simple drive.
Buckley is one of the younger villages in the area. It was founded in 1905 as a station on the Manistee and North-Eastern Railroad and named for the Buckley and Douglas Lumber Company. The post office opened on March 31, 1906, and Buckley was incorporated as a village the next year, in 1907. It sits in Hanover Township in Wexford County, just south of the Grand Traverse County line, with M-37 running through the middle of it.
It is best known for the Buckley Old Engine Show. It started in 1967, when a group of local men stopped talking about their old engines and threshers and ran them together at Joe Rebman's farm. So many people came to watch that they formed the Northwest Michigan Engine and Thresher Club, bought 70 acres west of town, and made it an every-August event.
Buckley is also growing. The village went from 697 people in 2010 to 775 in 2020, so alongside the older village homes and farmhouses there are newer houses going up on rural lots around it.
Wind is the first thing. Out in open fields, there's nothing between a house and the weather. Wind gets under shingle edges and ridge caps first, and it drives rain sideways into siding seams and behind trim. A roof fastened to spec at the edges holds up; one with shortcuts at the edges is the first to lose shingles.
Winter comes next. Snow drifts across open ground and piles up on one side of the roof, and every freeze-thaw cycle works water into small gaps. Where heat escapes into the attic, it melts snow from underneath, the water refreezes at the cold eaves, and the ice dam that forms pushes water back up under the shingles.
Older homes add their own problems: more than one layer of shingles over the original deck, fascia boards rotted behind years of overflowing gutters, and siding that has been patched more than once. Newer homes have a different risk: a roof is only as good as the details it was built with, and those are worth checking before the first big winter.
So we treat the outside of the house as one system: ice and water shield at the eaves and valleys, attic ventilation that keeps the deck cold, siding with proper wrap and flashing behind it, and seamless gutters on solid fascia.
Repair and replacement for roofs out in the open: edges and ridge fastened for the wind, ice and water shield at the eaves and valleys, and attic ventilation that keeps ice dams from forming.
More about roofing →A low-upkeep choice for older village homes and new builds alike. On an exposed wall, the house wrap, window flashing and trim behind the panels decide how well it holds up.
More about vinyl siding →No joints to leak and sized for the roof they drain, so water ends up away from the foundation instead of over the edge and against the siding.
More about seamless gutters →A gutter is only as solid as the board it hangs on. We replace rotted fascia before new gutters go up, which is usually the first job on an older house.
More about fascia →Everything we do on the outside of a house:
We come out to Buckley, walk the outside of the house and get into the attic where we can, because that is where ice dams and soft decking start.
You get the scope, the materials and the price in writing before anything starts. If a repair will do, we tell you.
Our own crew, working to the manufacturer spec, scheduled around the weather rather than ahead of a storm.
We magnet-sweep for nails, haul the debris away and go over the finished job with you before we leave.
In a village of under 800 people, everyone hears who did a good job and who didn't. We'd rather be the first kind. If a repair will do, we'll tell you instead of selling you a replacement you don't need, and you'll get the price in writing before any work starts.
Tell us what your roof, siding or gutters are doing and we'll come out and take a look.
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