Big view glass on the hill, wood windows downtown, and HOA design review on many streets. Fifteen minutes east of our Vancouver office on Highway 14.
Camas is two towns in one. Downtown, between the mill and the river, the houses go back to the 1910s through the 1940s: wood windows, cedar siding, deep porches. Up the hill, on Prune Hill and around Lacamas Lake, the subdivisions went in from the 1990s onward with the biggest windows in the county, because the whole point of building there was the view. IE Pro Exteriors works in both, and the work is different enough that we quote them differently.
On the hill the job is usually glass. Large fixed picture windows and sliders that face south or west take the full afternoon sun, and the sealed units in them fail earlier than the north-facing glass on the same house. The frames are mostly vinyl or fiberglass and mostly fine, so a glass-insert replacement with the right low-emissivity coating for the exposure fixes the fog and cuts the heat without touching the trim. When a whole elevation of builder-grade windows is due, we replace them full-frame in the same openings.
Downtown the job is carpentry. Old wood windows with rotted sills, cedar lap siding that has been patched around them before, and trim profiles that have to be matched rather than bought. Permits inside the city go through the City of Camas Building Division; a same-size window swap generally needs none, and a changed opening or a patio cover does. Many hillside streets also have HOA design review for visible exterior changes, and we supply the product details a review board asks for.
Large fixed glass ordered to size with the coating matched to the exposure. The triple picture window in the photo above is one we set into dark lap siding. Insert where the frame is sound, full-frame where it is not.
Fiber cement re-siding on hillside homes and cedar patch-and-match downtown. When an HOA has to approve a profile or a color, we provide what they need.
Camas lots drop away fast. Covers here are built on properly set footings with posts sized for the height, flashed into the house and permitted through the city.
Whole exteriors, with extra attention to the north and shaded walls that carry moss in Camas, and trim painting after window work.
Everything else we do is on the services page.
A south- or west-facing wall of glass on Prune Hill gets more sun in a summer afternoon than a whole Vancouver ranch does in a day. That is what fails the seals early and what makes the rooms behind it hard to keep cool. The fix is not smaller windows. A modern sealed unit with a low-emissivity coating chosen for the exposure lets the light through and turns most of the heat back, and it goes into the existing frame when the frame is sound.
The same sun is hard on paint and on the south-facing siding. On the hill we see fiber cement that has faded unevenly and vinyl that has warped on the sunny elevation while the shaded side looks new. We quote by elevation when that is what the house needs, rather than repainting a wall that is fine.
The mill-town houses near Fourth Avenue and up toward the high school are the kind of work we like: wood windows worth doing properly, cedar siding worth matching, and trim that has to be milled to a profile rather than picked off a shelf. A rotten sill is replaced, not filled; a window that is beyond that is replaced full-frame in a new wood or wood-clad unit that suits the house.
These houses were built before flashing was standard, and opening a wall around a window usually finds that out. We plan for it, and the quote says what happens if the sheathing behind the siding is wet when we get there.
Many Camas subdivisions, especially on Prune Hill and along Lacamas Lake, have design review for visible exterior changes. Same-for-same window replacement rarely triggers it; a color change or new siding profile often does. We can supply the product details your HOA asks for.
The City of Camas Building Division, for addresses inside the city. Properties outside the city line on the Camas side are permitted by Clark County.
Yes. Camas hillside homes are built around big fixed glass, and those units are ordered to size and set with the right glazing for the sun exposure. The photo on our windows page is a triple picture window we installed in dark siding.
We are registered with Washington L&I as a general contractor, number IEPROE*797LN, which requires a bond and liability insurance on file with the state. You can verify it on the L&I website.
Yes, whole exteriors and trim. Camas gets more shade and moss on the north side than lower Vancouver, so prep and a mildew-resistant finish matter more here.
About fifteen minutes east on Highway 14. It is one of the areas we are in most often.
Rated 5.0 across 25 Google reviews. Every quote below was left by an IE Pro Exteriors customer on Google and is shown word for word.
IE Pro Exteriors was really great to work with! They upgraded 5 windows for us, they were original windows to the home from the ‘60s. Workmanship was fantastic, they were easy to work with and reasonably priced. Highly recommend their service and would happily use them again.
Eric, Izak, and Zack did a fantastic job. The price was very reasonable, they were on time and finished the job in a very timely manner. The did a good job cleaning up and were very personable. I highly recommend them.
IE Pro Exteriors did an incredible job - Izak was great to work with and the whole team was professional and had great eye for detail. Would definitely recommend them to anyone looking for new windows in the Portland Or or Vancouver Wa area!