Exterior work in Bennington, NE

Bennington still looks like a small town in the middle and like a construction site around the edges, and both halves send us work. Around the original town you get older homes on established lots with mature trees. Out past them are subdivisions that did not exist ten years ago, plus acreages in between with outbuildings and long fence lines.

The mature trees are the part people underestimate. They are the reason older Bennington gutters fill every autumn and the reason limbs come down on roofs in an ice storm. Overhanging branches also keep a north slope damp long enough to grow moss, which shortens a roof faster than sun ever does. That is a gutter sizing conversation and sometimes a ventilation one.

On the new side it is the usual story of everything being built at once: the same builder-grade shingle across a whole street, HOA covenants on fences, and yards that back onto each other. The difference in Bennington is the lots tend to be larger, so the fence runs are longer and gates matter more than they do in town.