CR Custom Exteriors – Frederick, CO

Frederick sits out on the open plains of the Carbon Valley at about 4,984 feet, one of the Tri-Towns alongside Firestone and Dacono, with little between it and the foothills to break the weather. That exposure is hard on a home's exterior. The town sits squarely in Colorado's hail alley, where spring and summer storms rolling off the Front Range drop hail that bruises shingles, dents gutters, and pocks siding, and the same flat, open terrain lets strong downslope and frontal winds pry at ridge caps and lift loose siding before any hail even arrives. Because so much of Frederick's housing stock is 2000s-and-newer production homes in subdivisions like Summit View Estates, Rinn Valley Ranch, Hidden Creek, and Prairie Greens, those original builder-grade systems are aging out block by block, while the older homes near Main Street and the historic mining core carry their own siding and window needs. Add the high-altitude UV that fades and dries out south- and west-facing exteriors faster than the manufacturer's chart predicts, and exterior upkeep here is less about if and more about when.