Renovations in Duncan

Duncan holds a compact core of older town houses ringed by acreages and rural properties. Water supply, septic systems, and outbuildings are part of the picture here in a way they are not in the city, and an interior update is often combined with repairs to decks, fences, and exterior surfaces that take the weather coming up the valley.

Outside the town core the services belong to the property, so a renovation has to account for them: a well and a septic field sized for a smaller household, an outbuilding wired off the house panel, and drainage that has to move valley rain past the foundation rather than into it. In the core the rooms are small and often carry a 1970s update that has run out of life.