Renovation contractor in Bellingham, Washington
Bellingham has the oldest housing stock in the county, and by far the most interesting renovation work.
Bellingham
Old houses reward doing it properly.
A Craftsman in Fairhaven or the Lettered Streets is a genuinely good house — built with old-growth timber, real joinery and proportions nobody builds any more. It has also had a hundred years of owners improving it.
What we find in Bellingham renovations, over and over: knob-and-tube wiring still live in a wall, three layers of flooring, a bearing wall someone removed without a beam, plaster over lath that nobody wants to disturb, and a bathroom added in the 1960s that has been quietly rotting the joists underneath ever since.
Neighbourhoods like Columbia, York, Sehome, Happy Valley and the South Hill are full of this. Edgemoor and Silver Beach bring their own issues — larger homes, slopes, drainage and views people do not want to lose.
The work takes patience and a builder who is comfortable with structure. You cannot treat a 1912 house like a 2012 one and expect it to go well.
What We Deal With Most
Common Bellingham renovation work
- Knob-and-tube and early wiring replaced, panels upgraded to modern capacity
- Galvanised supply pipe repiped before it fails inside a finished wall
- Structural correction where earlier owners removed walls without support
- Foundation-related framing, post and beam replacement, levelling sagging floors
- Insulating uninsulated walls without destroying original interior finishes
- Kitchens opened up while keeping the character of the original house
- Basement conversion into legal, dry, code-compliant living space
- Permits through the City of Bellingham, including historic considerations where they apply
What We Do Here
Services available in this area
Questions
Bellingham questions
Do you work on historic homes?
Can you renovate without destroying the original character?
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(360) 527-5554