Siding, windows & exteriors in Acme, WA — foothills weather, valley know-how.

Real Project Transformations

This is the work South Fork Valley homes ask of us — farmhouses and forested places from Acme to Van Zandt. Flip through and picture your home next.

…and the whole South Fork Valley, from Van Zandt to Saxon.

Reach Out

Call (360) 296-9380 or send the form — tell us a little about your home and what's failing.

Free Walkthrough & Itemized Bid

We measure at your home, open up anything suspicious with your OK, and write a bid specific to your house — minimal boilerplate.

Build, Inspect, Done

Permits pulled, work scheduled around the weather, and the final inspection passed before we call it finished.

Wall area drives material; height drives scaffold time. A two-story home near Acme center / Highway 9 prices differently than a rambler off Van Zandt.

What's behind the old siding is the honest unknown — on a full-home re-side, sheathing rot repair is typically included at no extra cost, and anything past the sheathing, which is very uncommon, is quoted as a change order.

Hardie ColorPlus, primed fiber cement, or engineered wood — we quote options side by side so you see the real difference.

Combining siding and windows saves one full mobilization and gets properly integrated flashing — the cheapest time to do windows is during a re-side.

Acme Exterior Questions, Answered Straight

The South Fork Valley was settled house by house before it was ever a town. Homesteaders worked their way up the valley in the 1880s — J. Milner Van Zandt, the settlement's first postmaster, homesteaded in 1883, Elizabeth Lyle Saxon gave her name to a claim upriver in 1885, and Acme took its own name in 1887, when Samuel Parks' post office borrowed it from the Acme Hymnal he used in church. The first generation of houses were true farmhouses: hand-cleared land, old-growth lumber, wood heat.

Then the valley's timber became the valley's economy. Around the turn of the century, cedar cleared from local homesteads fed shingle mills in the Acme Valley, and by 1905 the first logging camp was running just downstream of the Saxon Bridge, moving wood out by rail. Between 1920 and 1937, Bloedel-Donovan laid more than fifty miles of railroad through the Saxon and river-valley country — and mill-era housing followed the work.

When the big timber ran out, the rails came up and the boom towns shrank back into farmland; Saxon consolidated with Acme in 1937. What stayed behind is the housing stock we work on today: a core of homestead- and mill-era farmhouses more than a century old, mid-century houses along Highway 9, and the forested acreage homes that arrived in later decades.

For exteriors, that history sets the job. Century-old farmhouses carry beautiful old-growth bones under generations of patched siding — and a century of valley fog in their north walls. The newer acreage homes fight the same shade and moss on younger framing. Different eras, same valley weather — which is why every estimate here starts with a probe, not a brochure.