Siding Contractors in Sunnyland, Bellingham

Sunnyland is one of Bellingham's great old working neighborhoods — a tight grid of streets and alleys between downtown and the Barkley District, lined with craftsman bungalows and workers' cottages that mostly went up in the first decades of the 1900s. Those houses were built with old-growth cedar siding that has now carried eighty to a hundred-plus years of Bellingham rain, and a lot of it is showing its age under a dozen layers of paint. Alpine Exteriors specializes in exactly this kind of work: keeping century-old exteriors weathertight without erasing their character.

Respecting a 1910 House While Fixing It Properly

The worst thing you can do to a Sunnyland bungalow is wrap it in the wrong material with the wrong profile. The best thing you can do is match what the original builders intended — and we can, several ways:

• Selective cedar repair — replacing only the split, cupped, or rotten boards and blending them into the existing wall
• Full cedar re-side in period-correct bevel profiles for owners committed to real wood
• Fiber cement in matching reveals — the same shadow lines as the original lap, with none of the rot or repaint cycle
• Trim and corner-board reconstruction, including the water tables and drip caps that old houses depend on and remodels often delete

Homes of this era frequently carry lead-based paint, so our crews follow EPA RRP lead-safe practices on tear-off — containment, HEPA cleanup, proper disposal. On a block where kids play in yards ten feet from the work zone, that is not optional.

What a Century of Weather Does to a Wall

When we open up Sunnyland walls we routinely find the same story: no weather-resistive barrier at all (common for the era), shiplap sheathing that is still remarkably sound, and localized rot wherever a gutter failed or a flashing was missed during some 1970s remodel. Our job is to correct the water management the house never had — modern WRB, properly integrated window flashing, ventilation where the assembly needs it — and then close it back up looking like it always belonged.

Alpine Exteriors has been restoring and replacing siding in northwest Washington for 25 years, with more than 2,000 projects behind us, and old Bellingham neighborhoods like Sunnyland, Columbia, and York are where that experience earns its keep. There is no learning curve happening on your house.

Straight Answers and a Long Warranty

Every project carries our 25-year workmanship warranty — fitting, since the original siding on these homes lasted a century and we intend our work to be judged by the same standard. If you have soft spots below a window, paint that will not hold on the weather side, or you are simply tired of the repaint treadmill, have us out for a free on-site estimate. We will probe the walls, tell you honestly how much original material is worth saving, and price both a repair path and a replacement path so you can decide with real numbers in hand.