Siding, windows & exteriors in Martha Lake, WA — unincorporated, aging on schedule.

Real Project Transformations

This is the work Martha Lake homes ask of us — from the lake ring to the 164th corridor. Flip through and picture your home next.

…and the unincorporated blocks between Lynnwood and Mill Creek.

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 lake-ring two-story prices differently than a 164th-corridor rambler.

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.

Martha Lake Exterior Questions, Answered Straight

Martha Lake started as stump-ranch country. Homesteaders arrived in the 1870s — the lake most likely takes its name from Martha Loughridge, who settled here with her husband William in 1872 — and for two generations the logged-over land was worked as small farms. In the early 1920s, promoters subdivided the cutover around Alderwood Manor into small 'ranchette' farms, and the district's population jumped from a couple dozen to well over a thousand in five years. Almost none of those first houses survive; what they left behind is the road grid.

The lake itself became the draw after Highway 99 opened in 1927. A resort on the shore rented rowboats and swim floats to Seattle day-trippers for decades — the property later became the county's Martha Lake Park — and summer cabins filled in around the water: small wood-frame places, many later winterized and added onto. That's why the lake ring still carries the community's oldest and least predictable housing, with cottage bones under layers of remodels. A small private airstrip ran off Ash Way from the late 1950s; the county bought it in 1998 and turned the runway into Martha Lake Airport Park.

The Martha Lake most people live in arrived in the '80s and '90s, when Seattle-bound growth filled the plateau between Lynnwood and the new city of Mill Creek. First counted as a census-designated place in 1980 with about 7,000 residents, it tripled to nearly 22,000 by 2020 — nearly all of it cul-de-sac subdivisions wearing the era's T1-11, hardboard, and early engineered-wood siding with first-generation vinyl windows.

That split personality drives the work today: subdivision streets age out in unison and bid predictably, while lake-ring homes need era-by-era detective work. Both permit through Snohomish County rather than any city hall — the lasting consequence of never incorporating.