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Culver Built is a design-build contractor based in Langley on South Whidbey Island. We carry a custom home or a remodel from concept through design, estimating and construction.
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Culver Built is a general contractor based in Langley on South Whidbey Island. We hold the contract and the schedule for remodels, additions, custom homes and bigger exterior projects. Whidbey Island is home ground. We also work on Camano Island and travel over the Deception Pass Bridge to Anacortes, Mount Vernon and Burlington.
If you hire each trade on your own, you hold every contract and juggle every schedule. As your general contractor, we hold the contract and run the whole job for you. We are licensed, bonded and insured, with more than 30 years of building experience.
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Each job starts with a free estimate. We look at the home or lot with you and talk through the plan. Our estimating study prices a full materials list with local vendors, then adds labor and work orders. You see a clear bottom line.
Next comes the building permit, and your address decides which office takes it. The City of Langley, the Town of Coupeville and the City of Oak Harbor each take their own applications. Elsewhere on Whidbey and on Camano Island, Island County takes them at its Coupeville office or its Camano Annex. We prepare and submit the permit set, and that office reviews it.
Then construction starts. Our own excavators and dump trucks handle the site work, and we do the carpentry. We schedule the licensed plumbing, electrical and heating trades and line up each inspection. We order materials ahead, so they reach the island when the job needs them.
We run home remodeling jobs, from one room to a full-home remodel. We also build home additions onto the home you have loved for years. When we open up an older home, we find and fix structural, weather and moisture problems while we remodel.
If you own a lot, see how we build on your land, from raw land to a finished home. For a new home, Island County will not accept a permit submittal until several items are in hand. They are a site registration and septic design, an approved access permit, an address and a water availability verification. A septic designer handles the septic design, and we plan our site work around it.
Bigger exterior projects often take more than one trade. One recent job took a stucco house to cedar shingle siding, a new roof and a new deck. On a job like that, we plan the order of the work and keep each trade on schedule. For an address in Skagit County, our Skagit County building permit guide covers who issues the permit.
Washington requires all construction contractors to register with the state Department of Labor and Industries (L and I). They must also be bonded and insured. Under RCW 18.27.010, a general contractor's business requires more than one building trade or craft on a single job.
A general contractor files a $30,000 surety bond with L and I. Registered contractors also carry general liability insurance, with a $250,000 minimum. We are licensed, bonded and insured, and our registration number is CULVEL*828N4.
On a residential job of $1,000 or more, RCW 18.27.114 requires a Notice to Customer before work starts. It warns that an unpaid supplier, employee or subcontractor can lien your property, so you could pay twice. To guard against that, you may ask for lien release documents from each supplier or subcontractor. You may also withhold a percentage of your contract as retainage.
Free, no-obligation estimates across Whidbey Island and the Skagit Valley.
(360) 544-9027From the first call or text to the finished home, here is how it goes.
Reach us at (360) 544-9027 or fill out the form. Tell us about the lot or the house and what you want to build.
We meet you at the property, look at the site or the home, and talk through what is possible. The estimate is free.
We design in house or build from your architect's plans. Then we price a full materials list with local vendors and add labor, so you see the bottom line.
We prepare the permit set with the energy code package and submit it for county review. Once it is approved, clearing, grading, drainage and the driveway go in.
Framing, roofing, siding, the licensed trades and finish carpentry run in order under one contractor. You have one point of contact from the first day to the final inspection.
Common questions about general contracting across Whidbey Island and the Skagit Valley. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
Culver Built is a design-build contractor based in Langley on South Whidbey Island. We carry a custom home or a remodel from concept through design, estimating and construction.
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We remodel Whidbey Island homes, from one room to the whole house. Kitchens, bathrooms, additions and exterior remodels, all under one contractor.
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We design and build home additions for Whidbey Island homes. Each one starts from as-built drawings and ties into the house you already have.
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We take your lot on Whidbey Island from raw land to a finished home. Site work, design, estimating and construction stay with one contractor.
Learn MoreYou work with one team from the first sketch to the last piece of trim. Design, site planning, estimating and construction all run through us.
Three decades of custom home building on Whidbey Island stands behind the work. The company holds a 5.0 rating on Google from seven reviews.
We run our own excavators, a mini excavator, dump trucks and a skid steer. Clearing, grading, drainage and the driveway are handled in house.
Culver Built is a registered Washington general contractor, licensed, bonded and insured. Estimates are free, so call or text (360) 544-9027 to set one up.
Real reviews from real island projects on Google.
Jeff and his team were incredible to work with, and I cannot recommend them highly enough! I approached Jeff with only a vague idea of what I wanted, and together we worked to create an outdoor space that was a thousand times better than anything I could have imagined on my own. He’s got a great eye and sense for space, and I really appreciated his passion for, and collaborative approach to our project. The guys he employs are kind, respectful and talented. I’ve done a number of projects with crews before, and I was so impressed with both the quality of work and professionalism across the entire team. We’re already freaking up future projects, and I genuinely am looking forward to working with Culver Builds again and again!
I highly recommend Jeff Culver and his team. They replaced my roof, demolished an outbuilding, and helped me with a foundation and siding project. Jeff was up-front about cost and communicative as the project went on. I will use Culver again for future projects.
We purchased our dream home on the west side of Whidbey Island above the Puget Sound with 180-degree views of the water and the Olympic Mtns. While we knew the driveway would need to be redone eventually, we soon learned that proper drainage to protect the house and garage had never been installed when the house was originally built. Jeff and his team resolved all of our issues. In front of our garages, Jeff installed proper French drains, a catch basin, and sump pump that pumps the water away. At the same time, Jeff installed proper drainage around the house. Our driveway was a packed dirt path with virtually no stone base. Jeff initially properly graded the driveway before first add a stone base, then a finishing base. After compacting the stone material, our driveway is almost as hard as concrete or asphalt and is 2-3 feet wider and more accessible. While Jeff was working near the garage with his excavator, he accidentally hit the gutter. Jeff immediately told me what happened and within 48 hours, Jeff had an outside gutter company come in and replaced the entire gutter. I appreciated his upfront honesty. As to communication, Jeff could not have been better. I found him through a Google search. He returned my original call within 2 hours. On Whidbey Island you are lucky to even have a contractor return any call. Jeff came out the same day to scope out the work and started the job within 10 days in my case. He and has team where there each day continuing to make progress. Needless to say, I give Jeff a 5-star review and when the next project comes up, I will certainly be reaching out to Culver Construction. Think this review isn’t legit, think again. I’m a small business owner with 50 employees, worked with countless vendors and customers. I know what good service looks like and when it isn’t.
Tell us about the lot or the house and what you want to build. You can also call or text (360) 544-9027 to set up a free estimate.
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