When the Kaiser shipyard was launching ships on the Columbia, Vancouver needed houses faster than it had ever built them. The small frame houses that went up in Fruit Valley, Rose Village, and Bagley Downs in the early and mid 1940s were built quickly and sided with whatever was cheap and fireproof. Cement asbestos shingle checked both boxes, and on a lot of those houses it is still there under three or four coats of paint.
These are modest lots and modest houses, usually 900 to 1,300 square feet of siding on one story, which makes them the least expensive whole house removals we do. The things that complicate them are small: window trim that was installed over the shingle instead of under it, a lean-to or carport added later with the same material, and the occasional second layer where someone shingled over shingle.
If you are buying or flipping in this part of town, the siding question comes up in nearly every inspection. Burnt Bridge Siding Removal gives you a written number from the address so the negotiation has a real figure in it, and if the deal goes through we file the SWCAA notice the same week.
Add-ons, carports and flat sheet
A lot of Fruit Valley houses have had porches enclosed and carports closed in over the decades, and those add-ons often carry the same cement board in flat sheet form rather than shingles. Flat transite sheet is the same material, handled the same way, and it counts toward the square footage on the notice.
Blocks from the river to Fourth Plain
- Fruit Valley Road
- Rose Village
- Bagley Downs
- Fourth Plain Boulevard
- Vancouver Lake lowlands
- the old shipyard at the Port
Pricing in Fruit Valley and Bagley Downs follows the same table as everywhere we work. The cost guide lists every range, and the SWCAA notice page explains the 10 day wait and who may legally do the work.