3 deadlines NoticeGuard models for Washington: what each one counts from, the statute it was read from, and the statute text.
Information, not legal advice. This app reports what the statute says and cites the section it read. It is not legal advice, it does not file anything for you, and it does not tell you what to do.
Verify with the statute or an attorney. Statutes change, and courts reinterpret them. Every deadline in this app comes from a statute read on the date shown next to its citation - that snapshot can go out of date. Missing a mechanics lien deadline can extinguish your claim permanently, so confirm any deadline you are relying on with an attorney licensed in that state before you act on it.
Data verified: statute text retrieved 2026-09-21 (each citation below carries its own date). Rule data from the NoticeGuard app, source commit 22f9300.
Given in writing to the owner (and, in some cases, the prime contractor), computed here as 60 days after first furnishing - the latest date that still protects every day of work performed since the start of the job. The statute itself states this as a 60-day look-back from whenever the notice is actually sent, not a forward deadline; see this rule's notes.
What it counts from. 60 days after first furnishing (commenced work).
Applies to. Subcontractor, Supplier, Preconstruction service.
Revised Code of Washington § 60.04.031 (1) Official source · statute text retrieved 2026-09-21
“Except as otherwise provided in this section, every person furnishing professional services, materials, or equipment for the improvement of real property shall give the owner or reputed owner notice in writing of the right to claim a lien... The notice may be given at any time but only protects the right to claim a lien for professional services, materials, or equipment supplied after the date which is sixty days before: (a) Mailing the notice by certified or registered mail to the owner or reputed owner; or (b) Delivering or serving the notice personally upon the owner or reputed owner and obtaining evidence of delivery in the form of a receipt or other acknowledgment signed by the owner or reputed owner or an affidavit of service.”
If the date is missed (the statute's own terms). A notice sent later than this date leaves any work furnished more than 60 days before the (later) send date unprotected - that earlier work falls outside the look-back window and cannot be the basis for a lien. The statute does not void the whole lien right; it narrows what the lien can cover.
Also stated next to this deadline.
This is a look-back window computed forward for practical use, not a literal statutory "due by" deadline - see this rule set's doc comment and `limitations`. Sending the notice later is legal; it just stops protecting the earliest work.
Exempt (§ 60.04.031(2)): a person who contracts directly with the owner (modeled here as the original contractor role), and pure laborers (no role in this app is a pure laborer). Subcontractors who contract directly with the prime contractor may also be exempt under § 60.04.031(2)(c) - not modeled here because this app does not collect who a subcontractor specifically contracted with. See `limitations`.
A residential repair/remodel carve-out (subsection (3)) can require notice even from someone who would otherwise be exempt, when the job is repair/alteration/remodel of an existing owner-occupied single-family residence - not modeled here.
Record the claim of lien
Filed for recording in the county where the property is located, counted from the day the claimant ceased to furnish labor, professional services, materials, or equipment - this claimant's own last furnishing date, not project completion.
What it counts from. 90 days after last furnishing (last day on site).
Applies to. Original contractor, Subcontractor, Supplier, Preconstruction service.
Revised Code of Washington § 60.04.091 (first paragraph) Official source · statute text retrieved 2026-09-21
“Every person claiming a lien under RCW 60.04.021 shall file for recording, in the county where the subject property is located, a notice of claim of lien not later than ninety days after the person has ceased to furnish labor, professional services, materials, or equipment or the last date on which employee benefit contributions were due.”
If the date is missed (the statute's own terms). The statute states this "is a period of limitation and no action to foreclose a lien shall be maintained unless the claim of lien is filed for recording within the ninety-day period stated" - jurisdictional, not merely directory.
Also stated next to this deadline.
Applies uniformly to every role in this app - no role-based difference for this deadline, unlike the preliminary notice.
A separate, non-jurisdictional step: the claimant must mail or personally serve a copy of the recorded claim on the owner within 14 days of recording. Missing that only forfeits eligibility for attorneys' fees/costs under § 60.04.181 - it does not void the lien. Not separately modeled as its own deadline here; noted for completeness.
File an action to foreclose the lien
Counted from the day the claim of lien was recorded. Filing alone is not enough - the statute also requires serving the owner within 90 days of the filing date.
What it counts from. 240 days after notice of construction lien recorded.
Applies to. Original contractor, Subcontractor, Supplier, Preconstruction service.
Revised Code of Washington § 60.04.141 (first sentence) Official source · statute text retrieved 2026-09-21
“No lien created by this chapter binds the property subject to the lien for a longer period than eight calendar months after the claim of lien has been recorded unless an action is filed by the lien claimant within that time in the superior court in the county where the subject property is located to enforce the lien, and service is made upon the owner of the subject property within ninety days of the date of filing the action; or, if credit is given and the terms thereof are stated in the claim of lien, then eight calendar months after the expiration of such credit...”
If the date is missed (the statute's own terms). The statute states the lien no longer "binds the property" past this date without a timely-filed and timely-served action - this is a period of limitation, expressly tolled only by an owner's federal bankruptcy filing.
Also stated next to this deadline.
Approximated as 240 calendar days (8 months × 30), the same approximation style used throughout this app.
Filing within this period is necessary but not sufficient: the statute also requires the owner be served within 90 days of the filing date - this app does not separately track that inner 90-day service clock.
No role-based carve-out for this deadline. Confirmed no "notice of claim expiration" demand-to-sue mechanic exists in § 60.04.141 (unlike some other states) - nothing here can be forced earlier by the owner.
Weekend and holiday rollover
NoticeGuard does not model a weekend or holiday extension for Washington. The dates above are the plain count from the date you enter. Check whether a Saturday, Sunday or holiday changes your date.
What this rule set does not cover
The preliminary notice deadline shown is a computed translation, not a literal statutory forward deadline - see the doc comment above and the rule's own notes. § 60.04.031 actually states a 60-day *look-back* window from whenever the notice is sent (the notice may legally be sent later; sending it later just forfeits coverage for work furnished before the window). The shorter 10-day look-back for "new construction of a single-family residence," and the owner-occupied existing-residence repair/remodel carve-out in subsection (3) (which requires even a first-tier subcontractor to notice the owner-occupier directly, with recovery capped to unpaid amounts as of notice), are NOT modeled - this app shows only the general 60-day case for every non-exempt role.
The preliminary notice exemption is modeled only for the clearest statutory case - an original contractor who contracts directly with the owner (§ 60.04.031(2)(a)). Subsection (2)(c)'s further exemption for "subcontractors who contract... directly with the prime contractor" is NOT modeled, because this app does not collect who specifically a subcontractor contracted with - a subcontractor may in fact be exempt under (2)(c) and this app would still show the notice deadline. Read § 60.04.031(2)-(3) directly if this applies to you.
Subsection (5)'s separate recording option for a professional-services provider whose work is not yet visible on the property (protecting lien priority against a later good-faith purchaser/mortgagee) is not modeled - a different, optional filing, not a deadline.
Weekend/holiday rollover is NOT modeled - deliberately, not by oversight. RCW 1.12.040 is confirmed by its own Reviser's note (citing Allen v. Morris and other Washington Supreme Court decisions) to be "of general application," but no cross-reference tying it specifically to chapter 60.04's lien deadlines was found in §§ 60.04.031, .091, or .141 themselves. The same honest gap as Idaho's, Arizona's, and New York's missing rollover.
The 8-calendar-month enforcement period (§ 60.04.141) is approximated as 240 calendar days (8 × 30), the same style of approximation this app already makes for other states' month-denominated periods. The credit-sale variant (the clock instead running from expiration of stated credit terms) is not modeled.
Only §§ 60.04.031, 60.04.091, and 60.04.141 have been read. The rest of chapter 60.04 - including lien priority rules, bond-substitution procedures, and the attorneys'-fees provisions cross-referenced from § 60.04.091 - is not incorporated.
This app generates a document for the claim of lien (§ 60.04.091's prescribed form) - not for the preliminary notice (a longer prescribed form with reverse-side consumer-protection text this app does not yet reproduce) or the foreclosure action, which is a court filing, not a statutory form.
NoticeGuard is an app that turns a job's dates into a countdown for each statutory step, shows the statute text each date was read from, exports a calendar file (.ics) and sends reminders 14, 7 and 1 day before each deadline. It tracks and reminds; it does not file anything for you.