Every service below has its own Conway page — the farmhouse stock here, Skagit County permit notes, and what open-delta exposure asks of an install.
This is the work Conway homes ask of us — from Fir Island farmhouses to the townsite grid. Flip through and picture your home next.
Get a Free Estimate →Conway's housing is generational farm stock: working farmhouses on the flats, homes clustered around the old town center and school, and Fir Island parcels that live behind dikes with the river on one side and the bay on the other. The exposures are flood and wind — the December 2025 flood, a record 37.73-foot crest at Mount Vernon, tested the dikes again, low ground holds moisture against bottom courses, and delta wind works fasteners loose the way it does everywhere on the flats. Most properties add outbuildings that age faster than the house itself.
Conway is unincorporated, so jurisdiction sits with Skagit County Planning & Development Services in Mount Vernon — and county code is friendlier than most owners expect: replacing siding or windows like-for-like, with no framing changes, is exempt from a building permit. The catch here is the flood plain — parcels in a mapped flood hazard area still need a flood permit even for otherwise exempt work. We've pulled and passed across Skagit County; we confirm per address and handle it start to finish.
…and the surrounding delta farm roads between the forks.
No pressure, no jargon — a clear path from first call to final inspection.
Call (360) 296-9380 or send the form — tell us a little about your home and what's failing.
We measure at your home, open up anything suspicious with your OK, and write a bid specific to your house — minimal boilerplate.
Permits pulled, work scheduled around the weather, and the final inspection passed before we call it finished.
Every bid is measured on site and itemized — these are the factors that actually change the number.
Wall area drives material; height drives scaffold time — and on farm properties, outbuildings and staging across acreage move the bid as much as the house.
Siding replacement →What's behind the old siding is the honest unknown — we scope known rot into the bid and price discovered rot transparently, per repair.
Rot repair →Hardie ColorPlus, primed fiber cement, or engineered wood — we quote options side by side so you see the real difference.
Compare materials →Combining siding and windows saves one full mobilization and gets properly integrated flashing — the cheapest time to do windows is during a re-side.
Window replacement →Conway's houses exist because of dikes. The Skagit delta here was tidal marsh until settlers started walling it off by hand — Charles Villeneuve took land by the South Fork in 1872, and Thomas P. Jones, an immigrant from Conway, Wales, homesteaded 120 acres of bottomland in 1874 and gave the place its name. Every farmhouse that followed was built on ground the dikes made, and in 1895 the state let landowners formalize that arrangement into diking districts — which still maintain the walls those homes live behind today.
The families who built the stock were heavily Norwegian. Scandinavian immigrants settled Fir Island and the Conway flats through the 1880s and '90s, farming and logging, and their congregation — organized at the Fir schoolhouse in 1888 — became Fir-Conway Lutheran, the white church that still anchors the community. Their houses were plain, practical old-growth fir farmhouses with big porches and bigger barns, sited on whatever ground stood a few feet above the fields.
The Great Northern arrived in 1891 and made Conway the shipping stop for the south delta's oats, hay, and dairy; a small townsite grew around the depot, store, and school, and a 1914 bridge finally replaced the Fir Island ferry at Mann's Landing. But Conway never boomed into a town — it stayed a farm-service hamlet, which is why the housing stock is still mostly generational farmhouses and their outbuildings rather than subdivisions.
That history sets the work today. Century-old farmhouses carry original wood siding over framing that has seen every flood year since the dikes went in — including December 2025, when the river set a record 37.73 feet at Mount Vernon and the delta evacuated while the dikes held. Walls here get scoped for flood-line moisture and wind-worked fasteners, barns included, because on a Conway parcel the house was never the only building that mattered.
A free on-site estimate anywhere around Conway — measured at your home, itemized, outbuildings included when you want.
