Roof Repair in Crivitz, WI

Roof repair in Crivitz: wind, trees, and ice do the damage here

Ask anyone who owns a roof between Crivitz and Athelstane what they worry about, and the answer is trees and wind. This is heavily wooded country, and the storms that sweep across High Falls and Caldron Falls have a track record: the July 2019 windstorm leveled forest across northern Marinette County and put pines through cabin roofs from Goodman Park Road to the Peshtigo River. Even in an ordinary summer, a single thunderstorm can drop limbs that crack decking, tear off ridge caps, or peel back a course of shingles on the windward side of a lake cottage.

Winter brings a slower kind of damage. Ice dams along the eaves force meltwater under shingles, and by the time a stain shows up on the ceiling, the sheathing underneath may have been wet for two seasons. We also see plenty of failed flashing around chimneys and plumbing vents on the village's older homes, where fifty freeze-thaw cycles a year eventually open up any seam that was sealed with caulk instead of metal. Our repair crews fix what's broken and tell you plainly what's coming next, because a repair estimate from us isn't a foot in the door for a replacement pitch. There are no salespeople and no commissions in this company.

Straight answers on repair versus replacement

Some roofs in Crivitz are worth fixing and some aren't, and we'll tell you which yours is. A ten-year-old architectural roof with one wind-damaged slope is a repair. A cottage roof on its third layer of shingles with soft decking around the chimney is a replacement waiting to happen, and patching it just spends your money twice. Because our replacement pricing runs on materials at cost with zero markup and one flat coordination fee, the honest comparison is easy to make: we put the repair number and the replacement number side by side, itemized, and you decide.

Response comes from the Okler Roofing operation in Kingsford, MI, a 39-mile straight shot down US-141, which means a crew can be in Crivitz fast when a storm has left your roof open. Okler Roofing has been family-owned since 1969, so this isn't a fly-by-night storm outfit working out of a motel; it's the same company your neighbors up in Dickinson County have voted Best Roofing Contractor 15 years running. Emergency situations get tarped and stabilized first, then properly repaired on a schedule that works for you. Start with a free estimate and describe what happened.

Repairs on seasonal cabins and camps

A leak at a hunting camp in Silver Cliff or a cabin on Lake Noquebay is worse than a leak at home, because nobody's there to catch it. Water can run for weeks before anyone notices. If a neighbor or the plow guy tells you something looks wrong, call us; we can assess and quote the repair without you making the drive north, and photos from our crew document exactly what we found and what we fixed. For absentee owners, that paper trail matters, especially if the damage turns into an insurance conversation later.