Home/Exterior Property Projects
The outside of a house is where the weather does its damage.
Siding, decks, fences, drainage, walls, landscaping, moss removal, pressure washing, exterior painting and structural repairs. One estimate for the whole outside, and one crew that knows how the pieces meet.
Why the outside first
Water finds the one thing you did not fix.
Siding is the only thing between the weather and the frame of your house. A downspout that dumps at the foundation, a deck post sitting in wet dirt, moss holding water against the shingles. None of it fails politely. It lets water into places nobody looks until the repair is expensive.
Rot is where the real money hides. Soft trim around a window, a spongy corner board, a beam gone punky where the deck meets the house. Cover it with new siding or fresh paint and you have paid to hide a problem that keeps growing underneath. So we open it, look, show you what is there, and price the repair honestly.
The grounds are the other half. You see the front of your house every day and stopped noticing it years ago. Everyone else sees it fresh, and edged beds, fresh bark dust and shrubs cut back off the siding cost a fraction of any other job on this site and change more about how the place feels.
The same property
Bare dirt, then a finished yard.
One house, one angle, before and after. Drag the handle across it.
Before
After
Both sides are photographs of the same property. Lawn, beds, edging, bark dust and plantings.
What is included
What we do outside.
- Fences. New fence lines, gates and repairs, posts set in concrete and run straight, because a leaning fence is the first thing a visitor notices.
- Drainage. Downspout extensions, French drains, grading and surface drains, so water goes somewhere other than your foundation.
- Walls. Retaining and garden walls in block, timber or stone, built to hold the grade rather than just look like they do.
- Landscaping. Cleanup and hauling, beds cut and edged, bark dust, plantings, trimming and pruning. The cheapest square footage you own to improve.
- Moss removal. Low pressure soft wash and a treatment on the roof, never a pressure washer. We are up there anyway, so you also get a straight answer on the shingles.
- Decks. New builds, re-decks over sound framing, railings and stairs, with the ledger and posts checked before anything new goes on.
- Pressure washing. Siding, driveways, walkways, patios, steps and fences, with the pressure matched to the surface instead of one setting for everything.
- Exterior painting. Body, trim and soffits, with the scraping, priming and caulking that makes it last rather than just look wet on the day.
- Structural repairs. Rot in framing, sagging beams, post bases, a deck ledger pulling away from the house. Opened up, shown to you, then fixed properly.
- Siding. Replacement, partial repair, rot, trim, soffit and fascia. Nothing else changes what a house looks like from the curb as completely.
Straight answers
What we will tell you not to do.
A full re-side is one of the more expensive things on this website, and plenty of houses do not need one. If the siding is sound and just tired, paint costs a fraction and changes the house almost as much. Most yards do not need a landscape design either. What pays back is a property that looks looked after and does not read as work waiting to happen.
We would rather sell you the cheaper job and keep your phone number than talk you into the big one.
- Roofs get a low pressure soft wash and a treatment, never a pressure washer. High pressure strips the granules off shingles and voids most manufacturer warranties.
- No irrigation or sprinkler systems. That is separately licensed in Oregon and we would refer you out.
- No large tree removal. Anything of size wants a licensed arborist, and we will tell you that rather than take it on.
- No ongoing lawn or maintenance contracts. We do the project and hand it back to you.
Before you commit
See the siding on your own house first.
We run your home through rendering software so you can look at the color and profile on your own walls before anybody orders a thing. Renderings are always labeled as renderings.
The work
Grounds we have finished.
Siding, deck, fence and drainage photos are added as those jobs are photographed. See recent projects.
Exterior questions
What homeowners ask us.
Do I have to re-side the whole house?
No. Plenty of siding work is a single elevation, usually the one taking the weather. We will tell you whether a partial job will look deliberate or look patched, because a patched wall is worse than leaving it alone.
What if there is rot behind the siding or under the deck?
You see it before it gets covered back up. Rot is the one thing nobody can quote blind, so we open it, show you, price it, and you decide. Nothing gets buried and added to an invoice afterward.
Will the moss come straight back?
Not immediately, and there are things that slow it down considerably, starting with getting the branches off the roof. Ask us at the estimate what makes sense for your roof, because the answer depends on how much shade and tree cover you have.
Can you deal with the branches over my roof?
Small branches, yes, and it is worth doing because overhanging limbs are what grow the moss in the first place. Anything large enough to be a real tree job needs a licensed arborist and we will say so.
My house was built before 1978. Does that matter?
It can. Disturbing old paint on a pre-1978 house falls under the federal lead-safe rules, which covers most of inner Portland, and that applies to siding and exterior painting alike. Ask us at the estimate and we will tell you exactly how we handle it on your house.
Do you haul the debris away?
Yes. Old siding, cuttings, the pile behind the garage. A finished job with a pile by the fence is not a finished job.
How do payments work?
50% down when you approve the proposal, balance at the final walkthrough once you have seen the work. Every proposal gives you until midnight of the third business day to cancel, in writing.
Book an estimate
Find out what the outside of your house actually needs.
We walk the property with you, check the siding and trim for soft spots, look at where the water goes, and give you the short list worth doing. No charge for the visit.
(971) 523-1104
sean.topvalue@gmail.com
Serving Portland, Beaverton, Hillsboro, Salem, Vancouver and surrounding areas. Estimates are done in person at the property, not over the phone. Outside our usual range? Call and ask. We travel for the right project.