Sealcoating and Asphalt in Strum, WI

the 1970s is the decade that built Strum, at 22.8 percent of the housing, with 10.4 percent older than 1940 behind it. A place that went up in one burst ages in one burst. The drives fail together, the advice is largely the same along a road, and the thing worth deciding is timing rather than whether.

Mostly single-family, at 85.7 percent detached, with a small share of duplexes and multi-unit buildings mixed in. That second group is the one where sealing pays back fastest, because a surface carrying six vehicles instead of two finds the edge of its wear layer years earlier.

A village of 1,068 usually has one commercial street and a few blocks of houses around it, and {p.ShortName} is no exception. The lots along the main street are small with shared access, which makes the question there where one property's surface stops and the next one starts. The houses behind them are straightforward. The drives out past the village line are a different job again.

Strum sits on the Buffalo River in Trempealeau County with Crystal Lake on its edge and US Highway 10 running through as the main route. The Buffalo River State Trail, thirty-six miles of old railroad corridor between Mondovi and Fairchild, passes through the village. Rolling hills in open farm country, and unusually for this area, unglaciated ground.