Serving Delbarton and nearby WV communities
Delbarton is one of the easier places around here to actually get a deck built. Lots are deeper and less cramped than the river towns, there is usually somewhere to put a real backyard deck, and there is room to work. The catch is the water coming off the hillside, and it goes after footings.
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Recent deck work around Williamson and the surrounding West Virginia communities.
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Jack Smith
4 months ago
Had them out after the back steps started going soft underfoot. He came and looked properly before quoting anything, and told me the structure underneath was still sound — so it ended up a smaller job than I had braced myself for. Turned up when he said he would, cleaned up after himself, and the price at the end was the price we agreed. Not much more you can ask for.
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Skyler White
9 months ago
Called on a Tuesday and had someone out the same week. What I appreciated most was being told straight what needed doing now and what could safely wait until spring. No pressure and no trying to talk me into the bigger version of the job. It has held up fine through the winter since.
Trevor Alford
2 months ago
The quote came through itemised and the final bill matched it, which has honestly not been my experience with everyone around here. They worked around an awkward driveway without once making it my problem, and left the place tidier than they found it. Would have them back.
Kaleb Withrow
3 weeks ago
Fair price, showed up on time, tidy work. No complaints.
Send a few photos and we'll tell you what it'll take — free written quote, no pressure.
Properties strung along WV-65 and up the hollows generally have depth behind the house, which means a deck here can be the size people actually want rather than the size the lot allows. Full backyard decks, wraparounds on a corner, and covered sections are all realistic in a way they aren't in Matewan or Kermit.
Full-size backyard decks where the lot allows one
Covered and partly roofed sections
Ground-contact material anywhere near soil
Standoff post bases so end grain sits clear of standing water
Footings sized for the load, below frost depth
What you get when Mackwood does your decks — and what we won't do.
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From first call to finished work — no surprises in between.
Step 1
Call, text, or send a message with what you're looking to build or repair. No form to fill in and no call centre — it comes straight to us, and you'll get a real answer about whether it's something we do.
Step 2
A few photos are often enough to tell us what we're dealing with. Where it isn't — anything structural, anything hidden underneath — we'll come out and look properly before quoting rather than guessing from the kerb.
Step 3
You get a written quote that itemises the work, so you can see what you're paying for and what you aren't. If we think part of it isn't worth doing, we'll say so. No pressure and no surprises at the end.
Step 4
We turn up when we said we would, work clean, and haul the offcuts away with us. The job gets built to last in this climate — and we'll walk it with you before we call it finished.
We'll come and look, then tell you straight — including if it isn't worth doing.
Straight answers to what we get asked most.
Usually fixed. It is almost always the supports rather than the deck — patio blocks or shallow footings that have moved with freeze-thaw in wet ground. The correction is proper footings below frost depth under the posts that have dropped. If the framing above is sound, that is a much smaller job than a rebuild.
Not if the deck is built for it. Ground-contact material below, standoff bases so the posts aren't sitting in wet, and footings deep enough not to care about the surface soil. What we can't do is regrade your lot — that's a different trade, and we'll say so rather than pretending carpentry solves it.
Yes, and there is more room to do it here than in most of the towns we cover. A roof changes the structure underneath — the posts are now carrying roof load as well as deck load, so the footings and post sections go up accordingly. It's worth deciding that at the design stage rather than adding a roof later to a frame that wasn't built for it.
It depends on size and height. Mingo County handles permitting and inspection separately from Logan County, so requirements differ across the line. We confirm what applies to your address before starting rather than leaving you to find out.
Yes — roughly twenty-five minutes from Williamson on WV-65, well inside the hour we work. It's a regular run rather than a special trip.
We can address how the structure handles it — proper standoffs, drainage away from posts and steps, ground-contact material where it belongs. Regrading the lot itself is a different trade, and we'll say so rather than pretending carpentry solves it.
It's common up the hollows here. It affects load size and how many trips the material takes, which we allow for in the quote rather than discovering on the day.
We handle decks across Williamson and the surrounding West Virginia communities.
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What limits it is the ground. Delbarton sits in a creek valley and water sheets down off the slopes toward the houses rather than away from them, which is the recurring theme in everything we get called about here. For a deck that means footings in soil that gets saturated and stays that way, so they go below frost depth and get sized for the load rather than guessed.
Where runoff crosses the deck footprint, it is worth dealing with the path of the water at the same time. Carpentry can keep the structure out of it — proper standoffs, ground-contact material, posts that aren't sitting in the wet — but it can't move the water, and we'd rather say that than take money for a fix that isn't one.
Because these lots have room, a lot of Delbarton houses have accumulated decks, landings, and outbuildings added by varying hands at varying times. Quality is all over the place, and the problems repeat: posts standing on patio blocks set on soil, joists spanning further than the timber will carry, and railings fastened to the deck boards rather than to the frame.
Blocks on dirt are the one we see most. Every freeze-thaw cycle moves them slightly, and after enough winters the deck reads visibly out of level and the door onto it stops latching. On a low deck that is sometimes liveable. Where the structure is carrying height, it needs correcting, because those posts are holding real weight.
A railing that is only screwed into the decking is the other one worth knowing about. It feels solid to the hand and it is not, because the load a railing has to take is sideways and there is nothing structural resisting it.
Addresses on WV-65 are straightforward. Up the hollows the road narrows quickly and the driveways get steep and gravelled, which limits what comes in on one trip. At about twenty-five minutes from Williamson it is a comfortable day, but not one where we want to be running back for a forgotten length of joist.
So we prefer to see the access before quoting. It tells us how the material lands and how the day runs, and it means the number we give you accounts for it instead of being adjusted afterwards.
Delbarton's housing is largely mid-century and older wood-framed homes strung along WV-65 and up the hollows that feed into it, with a good share of former coal-camp stock. Most sit on block or pier foundations rather than full basements, and covered front porches are standard. Lots are generally deeper and less cramped than in Matewan, which means more detached outbuildings, decks, and additions that have been added over the years by varying hands.
Being strung along a creek valley, Delbarton properties deal with runoff coming down off the slopes as much as with river flooding. Water that sheets toward a house rather than away from it is the recurring theme, and it drives the same failures every time: damp crawl spaces, rot at the base of posts and steps, and framing that stays wet long enough for it to matter.
Addresses right on WV-65 are straightforward. Up the hollows the roads narrow quickly and driveways get steep and gravelled, which limits what can be brought in on one trip. About twenty-five minutes from Williamson, so it's a comfortable day trip but not one where we want to be running back for forgotten material.
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