Serving Kingsley & Paradise Township
Kingsley is a railroad village surrounded by open farm country, and a house out here takes the weather straight on. Here's how we look after the roofs, siding and gutters that have to stand up to it.
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Our office is at 104 S Union Street Suite 208 in downtown Traverse City. From there, Kingsley is about 16 miles south, usually a drive of under half an hour straight down Garfield.
That's close enough that coming out for an estimate is easy, and close enough that a loose shingle after a windstorm doesn't wait days for a crew. If something needs a second look after the job is done, we're a short drive away.
Kingsley exists because of the railroad. When the line between Cadillac and Traverse City was finished in 1872, landowner Judson Kingsley built a station on his property and opened a post office called Kingsley Station. He platted the village in 1876. Next door, Myron S. Brownson platted his own land as Paradise in 1882, and in 1893 the two villages joined and incorporated together as Kingsley. That is why the township is still called Paradise, and why the village motto is "A Little Bit of Paradise."
Today the village is home to about 1,431 people (2020 census), and the school teams are the Stags, which gave Kingsley its nickname, Stagtown. Main Street is M-113, Brownson Memorial Park has a band shell, splash pad and farmers market, and the village sits at 968 feet, well above the bay in Traverse City.
Around it, Paradise Township is farm fields, woodlots and rural homes, with a mix of older houses near the old railroad village and newer homes on larger lots outside it.
Wind is the first thing. A house in open farm country has nothing between it and the weather, so wind works under shingle edges and drives rain sideways into siding seams and under trim. Most roof wind damage starts at the edges and the ridge, which is why we pay so much attention to starter strip, nailing and flashing.
Winter comes next. Snow drifts across open ground and piles on the downwind side of a 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: roofs with more than one layer of shingles over the original deck, siding that has been patched more than once, and fascia boards gone soft behind gutters that overflowed for years. Farmhouses and newer homes on big lots also tend to have long rooflines, and long rooflines need gutters sized for the water they actually collect.
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 sized for the roof.
Replacement and repair for roofs that take the wind across open fields: fastened to spec at the edges and ridge, ice and water shield at the eaves and valleys, and ventilation that keeps the deck cold.
More about roofing →A low-upkeep choice for farmhouses and newer homes alike. On an exposed wall, the house wrap, window flashing and trim behind the panels matter as much as the panels themselves.
More about vinyl siding →Long rooflines collect a lot of water. Seamless runs have no joints to leak, and we size the gutters and downspouts for the roof they drain.
More about seamless gutters →Years of overflowing gutters rot the board behind them. We replace soft fascia before new gutters go up, so they have something solid to hang on.
More about fascia →Everything we do on the outside of a house:
We come out to Kingsley, 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 about 1,400 people, word gets around, and that's how it should be. We'd rather earn the next job in Kingsley than oversell this one, so if a repair will do, we'll tell you instead of selling you a replacement you don't need.
Tell us what your roof, siding or gutters are doing and we'll come out and take a look.
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