CR Custom Exteriors – Greeley, CO

Greeley is the Weld County seat, sitting out on the high plains at roughly 4,660 feet near where the Cache la Poudre River meets the South Platte. That open-plains position is the whole story for a home's exterior here: there are no foothills to break the wind, so storms and straight-line gusts cross miles of farm ground and hit roofs and siding with nothing slowing them down. Greeley sits squarely in the Front Range hail belt, and summer cells building off the mountains regularly drop hail on the city before moving east. The river-bottom ground around the Poudre and the old irrigated colony farmland holds moisture that's harder on north-facing fascia, gutter seams, and wood trim than people expect this far out on the plains, while the dry, high-plains sun splits south-facing paint and bakes shingles by late summer. Founded in 1870 as the irrigation-driven Union Colony, Greeley still carries that mix of old farm-town housing stock and fast-growing new subdivisions — and exterior work here can't be treated like a generic metro job.