Custom Home Builder in Davenport, Washington

Most of the new-home calls we get from around Davenport aren't about buying land. The land has been in the family for three or four generations. The call is about the house standing on it: a farmhouse on a stacked-stone foundation, added onto twice, with a kitchen nobody has liked since 1970 and a January heating bill that argues for starting over. The shelterbelt is good, the well is good, the shop is good. The house is the part that's worn out.

That's the kind of project Domex Construction takes on in Lincoln County under Washington license DAVYDCI833NC. We can design the new house with you from scratch, pulling in a drafter or architect and an engineer as needed, or build from plans you bring, whether they came from an architect or a stock plan catalog. Nine years in business, 32 years of combined experience, fully insured, with roots in siding and windows.

Replacing the House on the Home Place

The first question is whether the old house should come down at all. Some farmhouses are worth a remodel. The ones that aren't usually share a few traits: a foundation with no real footings that has been settling for a century, framing cut up by additions and old plumbing runs, and a gap between what the walls are and what Washington's energy code requires that costs nearly as much to close as building new. We'll walk it and tell you which one you have.

If it's coming down, a farmstead gives you an option a town lot never does: build the new house first. There's usually room to set it on a fresh site a few hundred feet away, live in the old place through construction, move in, and then demolish. No rental in town, no moving twice. When the old site really is the best spot on the property, we demolish first and build on the same ground.

Either way, Washington requires an asbestos survey before a structure is demolished, and farmhouses of that age commonly turn it up in siding, flooring, and pipe insulation. Anything found gets abated before demolition. Utilities get disconnected, and the demolition permit goes through Lincoln County, or the City of Davenport for a house inside town. Then there's what to keep. The well may serve the new house once it's tested for capacity and water quality. An old septic system often can't carry a new house, and the county's septic authority decides what's needed. The power service may need an upgrade to handle a heat pump and a shop together.

Siting for Wheat-Country Wind and Sun

Whoever sited the original house knew the weather. The shelterbelt, the barn, and the old front door all tell you where the wind comes from and where the snow piles up. We read those before placing the new house, then design to them:

• Long side south. Most living space faces south, where an overhang shades summer sun and lets low winter sun onto the floor. West glass stays modest, because nothing out here shades a July evening.
• Garage on the weather side. An attached garage or mudroom on the windward end takes the blow so the main entry doesn't. Doors open onto the sheltered side.
• A roof built for gusts. Hip roofs and moderate pitches shed wind better than tall, flat-faced gables. Rafters and trusses get tied down with rated connectors from ridge to foundation.
• Snow-aware driveway. The drive goes where drifts don't form, or where the shelterbelt already stops them.

The same wind that finds gaps in a hundred-year-old window frame, something our window crews in Davenport see constantly, is why the new envelope gets taped, sealed, and flashed like a Domex exterior job.

Building Forty Minutes Out US 2

Distance changes how a job runs. Davenport sits about forty minutes west of Spokane, and a crew that drives out for half a day and leaves loses the day. So we schedule in blocks: the framing crew is on your site for consecutive days, and the electrician, plumber, and HVAC installer are sequenced to follow one another rather than trickle in.

Material gets the same planning. Lumber arrives in drops sized to each phase, stored under cover (often in your machine shed), and banded down, because sheathing left loose in a Lincoln County wind ends up a mile downwind. Concrete pours get timed around truck travel from the plant and around the forecast. And since most farm families are on the property every day, you're our eyes between visits, backed by weekly photo updates.

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From Farmstead Walk to Tearing Down the Old House

1. Farmstead walk. Old house, well, septic, power, outbuildings, and where wind and drifts go.
2. Keep-or-replace decision and design. Remodel versus new, the new house's site, and design-build drawings or a review of your plans.
3. Survey and permits. Asbestos survey and any abatement, Lincoln County or City of Davenport permits, and septic and well review with the county's health authority.
4. Site work in blocks. Driveway, foundation, utilities, and framing scheduled as consecutive crew days, with phased deliveries.
5. Move in, then demolish. Final walkthrough, move-in, and the old house taken down and the site cleaned up, if you chose to build first.

Home Place Questions From Lincoln County

Licensed for Lincoln County Work

Domex Construction is registered in Washington as DAVYDCI833NC. Check it through the Department of Labor & Industries contractor lookup. We're fully insured, and from Davenport we also build in Reardan, Harrington, Creston, Wilbur, and Odessa.

If the house on your home place is past saving, call us for a free consultation. We'll drive out, walk the farmstead, and talk through what a new house there would take.

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