Bothell, both
sides of the county line.

The Sammamish River runs right through downtown, the slough if you've lived here long enough, and North Creek comes down to meet it near the UW Bothell campus. Flat ground near either one drains slow. The maps call that floodplain; on a job it means a post hole dug in January has water in it by lunch, so we dig deeper, pour real footings, and grade so the water moves on instead of sitting against your fence.

A block or two off Main Street the houses are 1920s bungalows, a lot of them with their first siding still on, and after a hundred wet winters there's usually something soft behind it. We take a board off and show you what's under there before we put a number on anything. Finding it now beats finding it mid-job.

Norway Hill, Westhill, and the neighborhoods out by Canyon Park and North Creek went in over a few decades, so whole streets hit fence and deck replacement age at the same time. Hillside lots add a wrinkle: rain runs downhill and collects at the lowest fence line, which is why the bottom posts always lean first. We set those deeper and drain the line so gravity stops winning.