Exterior / Envelope in Puget Sound region
How the job started, what our in-house crew built, and how it turned out.
01Site & challenge
Pacific Northwest weather finds every weak point in a building envelope: the roof-to-wall transition, the window-to-siding joint, the spot where a gutter dumps against the foundation. This showcase collects the envelope work we do across multiple homes — roofing, siding, windows, and the additions that have to tie new rooflines into old ones. The recurring challenge is what we find once the old cladding comes off: dry rot at failed flashing, undersized headers, and water paths nobody knew existed.
02What we built
On these homes we replaced composition and metal roofing with proper underlayment and step flashing, hung fiber-cement and board-and-batten siding over a continuous weather-resistive barrier, and set energy-efficient windows with sill pans and re-flashed openings. Where structure had rotted, we opened it, documented it for the owner, repaired framing, and re-detailed the drainage plane before closing up. Additions were engineered so the new roof pitch, siding profile, and trim read as one house. Each phase is covered by our roofing, siding, and windows, additions and renovations, decks and pergolas, and exterior painting services.
03Outcome
The result is a house that sheds water the way it should, holds heat through the wet season, and no longer hides rot behind fresh paint. Schedules and jurisdictions vary by home; the photos here show finished envelopes and exterior work from several of our recent builds.
