Every service below has its own Custer page — acreage-home and outbuilding notes, Whatcom County permits, and open-exposure details.
This is the work Custer properties ask of us — farmhouses, acreage homes, and the outbuildings that come with them. Flip through and picture your place next.
Get a Free Estimate →Custer homes sit in the open: acreage properties and farmhouses with no windbreak but their own tree lines, catching both the southwesterly rain and the northeaster outflow across the flats. Rural exteriors age differently than town homes — more wind-worked fasteners, more sun on unshaded south walls, and outbuildings whose siding often fails a decade before the house. Custer is unincorporated, so permits run through Whatcom County PDS rather than a city hall.
We treat shops and outbuildings as real projects, not add-ons — matched or deliberately contrasted with the house — and we quote acreage properties after walking all of it, not from the driveway. County permitting is routine for us; it's a different process with different timelines, and we build that into the schedule honestly.
…and the surrounding farm roads between Ferndale and Blaine.
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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. A two-story home near Custer center prices differently than a rambler off Enterprise Road.
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 →Custer was farm country before it had a name — one of the earliest settlements in this corner of Whatcom County, named in 1886 for Albert W. Custer, its first storekeeper and postmaster. The original township sat along today's Valley View and Bay roads, and some of the area's oldest surviving farmhouses still stand on that first footprint.
The Great Northern Railway changed where and how Custer built. When the line came through between 1890 and 1892, the settlement shifted to meet the tracks, and the rail connection turned subsistence homesteads into working farms — shingle mills, lumber, then dairy and berry operations shipping to real markets. The housing that followed was practical: tall, plain farmhouses in cedar and fir, built by the same hands that built the barns beside them.
The twentieth century filled in the road grid rather than a town. As farms changed hands and subdivided, ramblers and acreage homes went up along Enterprise, Valley View, and Delta Line roads — '60s and '70s single-stories, '80s and '90s spec builds on five-acre parcels, nearly all of them paired with shops and outbuildings that got cheaper siding than the house and are failing first.
That layered stock is what we work on today: century-old farmhouse walls that often carry no sheathing behind the original boards, mid-century ramblers at grade level where splash-back rots the bottom course, and outbuildings a decade ahead of the house in wear. Custer never incorporated, so all of it permits through Whatcom County — and all of it gets bid by walking the property, not guessing from the road.
A free on-site estimate anywhere in Custer — measured at your home, itemized, and specific to your house.
