Arlington keeps its feet dry up above the Stilly, but the valley underneath takes on water most winters. Whether your lot sits up top or down in the valley changes how deep we dig and what we set posts in. Call (206) 735-1286 and you'll get someone who's built on both. The written quote is free either way.
The hill keeps downtown dry and the valley catches what the Stilly sends down. Here's what that split does to fences, decks, and hundred-year-old siding.
Downtown and the hill neighborhoods drain fine. Down toward Haller Park and out in the valley, the Stilly backs water into the ground most winters, and soil that stays soaked into May is what makes a shallow post lean and a deck footing sink. Down there we dig deeper, pour more concrete, and grade the base so water moves off instead of sitting against the wood.
The early-1900s homes around Olympic Ave still carry their original cedar under decades of paint, and the flashing from back then lets water in behind the trim, where rot works quietly for years. We open up a section before we quote, so what we find is already in the number.
Most of what's gone up around Smokey Point and Gleneagle came with a builder-grade fence: skinny posts, shallow holes, rails that sag early. When one comes down we reset the line properly, bigger posts, real depth, concrete under every one.
One crew carries the whole list, whether it's a fence line in Gleneagle or rot behind old cedar in Old Town. Open any card for the work and the warranty.
We cover all of it: the Old Town blocks off Olympic Ave, Gleneagle by the golf course, Kent Prairie and Eagle Creek, Arlington Heights out east, and everything new going up around Smokey Point. The goat won't ride past the new roundabouts out by Island Crossing, so it sits this one out.
Arlington issues its own permits through the city's Community and Economic Development office, and we've stood at that counter enough to know the drill. If your project needs a permit, we file it, track it, and meet the inspector on site.
No reviews up here yet; we opened in 2024 and we'd rather wait for real ones than write our own. Until they arrive, hold us to these four, hill lots and valley lots alike.
The person who walks the job with you swings a hammer on it the next week. Nobody new shows up unannounced.
The terms live in your contract, readable before you sign, so coverage is never a phone argument later.
One written number covers the job. Anything that changes it shows up on paper for your signature first.
WA contractor #LARCHBL744BK, bonded and insured, listed on the state registry any hour you feel like checking.
It's all close from here: Marysville straight down I-5, Lake Stevens and Snohomish down Highway 9. One crew works all four towns.
Tell us what your Arlington place needs, up in Arlington Heights or down on the flats. Send a photo of the problem and a real person from the crew calls back.
The call comes from (206) 735-1286, usually inside a business day, from someone who can price wet-ground prep from memory.