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Roofing, siding, gutters & paint inCrawfordsville, Indiana
Crawfordsville sits about 22 miles west of our shop, closer to 35 minutes on state roads than a highway hop, in Montgomery County rather than Boone. It is a regular stop for us, not home turf, and the housing reflects a different county seat with its own century of building.
A college town with its own century of building.
Crawfordsville has grown slowly but steadily. The Census Bureau's latest estimate puts the city at 16,699 people as of July 2025, up 2.3% from 16,306 in 2020, which tracks with a longer trend of 15,243 in 2000 and 15,915 in 2010. The median owner-occupied home here is worth $134,000, with 68.5% of households owning rather than renting, figures that put Crawfordsville closer to Frankfort than to the Boone County towns nearer Indianapolis.
Two National Register districts anchor the older half of town. The Crawfordsville Commercial Historic District, listed in 1992, covers the downtown block around the 1876 Montgomery County Courthouse and the 1902 Carnegie Library, developed roughly between 1836 and 1940. A few blocks over, the Elston Grove Historic District, also listed in 1992, is 138 contributing buildings built between about 1835 and 1935, Italianate, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival homes that include the Henry S. Lane House and the Lew Wallace Study, built by the Civil War general and Ben-Hur author himself. Wabash College, founded in 1832, sits close enough to both districts that a meaningful share of the older housing near campus has been converted to rental use over the decades.
That college-adjacent rental market changes what we see on a lot of Crawfordsville houses: original wood clapboard covered over with vinyl at some point to cut down on repainting between tenants, without anyone dealing with what was happening underneath it first. The city also sits on Sugar Creek, and a fair number of older homes on the lower streets near it deal with foundation dampness that has nothing to do with the roof, but shows up on the exterior anyway.
Being 22 miles and closer to 35 minutes out on state roads rather than an interstate, we do not treat Crawfordsville like a Boone County town. We plan the trip, but we take the calls, because the four-trade combination we offer is the same whether the address is ten minutes from the shop or thirty-five.
What we see on Crawfordsville houses.
Four things come up often enough on Crawfordsville inspections, tied to the college and the creek, that we look for them before you point them out.
Vinyl installed straight over original clapboard near campus
A share of the older housing close to Wabash College has passed through multiple rental cycles, and at some point a lot of it got a layer of vinyl siding installed directly over the original wood clapboard rather than removing it first. That traps whatever moisture problem existed underneath and lets it keep working on the sheathing, invisible until the vinyl comes off for another reason.
Foundation dampness near Sugar Creek wicking into the lowest siding courses
Homes on the lower streets close to Sugar Creek deal with damp foundations more than houses further up the grade, and that dampness does not stay in the crawlspace. It wicks up into the bottom courses of the original siding, and what looks like a paint or siding problem from the street is really a moisture problem coming from below.
Dead valleys behind interior chimneys on the older hip roofs
A lot of the Colonial Revival and Queen Anne homes in Elston Grove were built with a chimney set back from the roof edge, which creates a dead valley behind it, a low spot with no real slope that collects leaves and holds water against the flashing. It is easy to miss on a quick look from the ground and a common place for a slow leak to start.
Mitered corner boards on the Italianate homes opening at the seam
The Italianate homes downtown and in Elston Grove often used a mitered corner board rather than a lapped one, a detail choice from the era that looks cleaner but opens a seam over time as the wood moves. Once that seam opens, it funnels water behind the siding at the corner, a different repair than a flat run of clapboard failing in the field.
Everything on the outside, plus the inside walls.
Thirty-five minutes west, on purpose.
Crawfordsville is not next door to our shop, and we do not pretend it is. It is a deliberate stop on our route through this part of Indiana, not a special trip we charge extra to make. The drive is real; the callback is still within 24 business hours.
The same crew and the same materials we use on a Boone County job come west for a Crawfordsville job. What changes is the drive, not the work.
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Where in Crawfordsville we work
The city proper, ZIP 47933, and the Montgomery County ground along the main routes in: US 231, US 136, SR 32 and SR 47.
- Downtown & the courthouse square
- Elston Grove
- Crawfordsville Commercial District
- Wabash College area
- Sugar Creek corridor
- US 231 corridor
- US 136 corridor
- SR 32 corridor
- SR 47 corridor
- Ben Hur Building area
Asked by Crawfordsville homeowners.
It's about 22 miles and closer to 35 minutes on state roads, further than most of the towns we work in, but we still take Crawfordsville calls regularly. We just plan the drive as part of the schedule rather than pretending it's a ten-minute trip.
Yes. A lot of that housing has vinyl siding installed directly over the original wood clapboard from an earlier rental turnover, which hides whatever was going on underneath. We check what's behind it rather than assuming the vinyl itself is the whole story.
We do. Elston Grove has been on the National Register since 1992, and the Italianate and Colonial Revival details on those homes, including mitered corner boards and dead valleys behind interior chimneys, are things we look for specifically rather than treating the house like a standard reroof or reside.
Usually not. On the lower streets near Sugar Creek, that dampness is more often wicking up from a damp foundation than coming down from the roof. We look at the whole picture, gutters, grading and siding, before assuming the roof is the source.
That is the point of the company. One crew, one schedule, one invoice, and no waiting on a second contractor to free up. Bundling also saves real money on labor, because the fascia is already exposed and the ladders and staging are already up.
Being 35 minutes from our shop does not change what stands behind the work once we leave Crawfordsville. Paint and gutter or gutter guard installation carry a two-year workmanship warranty, roofing carries five years, and Owens Corning backs the roofing materials with its own manufacturer warranty on top of that, all covered on the roofing warranty page. We start a project with 50% down, collect the balance once the work is finished and walked with you, and offer financing for larger jobs, useful whether the house is owner-occupied or a rental near campus.
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