Serving Holden and nearby WV communities
Holden was built, not grown. Island Creek Coal put these houses up to a small number of standard patterns, and that changes deck work in two ways: what we build has to look like it belongs on a company house, and whatever we find on one of them tells us where to look on the next.
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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.
These houses were designed with a porch, not a deck, and a deck bolted onto the back of one can look obviously grafted on if nobody thinks about it. The detail that keeps it looking right is usually available: post profiles, railing spacing, and board widths are still visible on the same street, because the whole camp was built to the same pattern.
Post and railing profiles taken from the surrounding houses
Board widths and spacing matched to the existing detail
Elevated rear structures where the house steps down the grade
Footings sized for slope loading, below frost depth
Drainage kept clear of footings on the uphill side
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.
It doesn't have to. Holden is the best case we have for matching detail, because the pattern is documented by the houses around you — profiles, spacing, and board widths are all still visible on the street. We take the detail from there so the deck reads as part of the house.
Yes, and it's the usual situation here. It makes the deck an elevated structure rather than a platform, which changes the footings, the post sections, and the bracing. Often we'd suggest stepping it down the grade in two levels instead of building one tall deck.
Not if they're set properly and the water is kept off them. Footings go below frost depth and past the surface soil that stays wet, and we keep the runoff path clear of the structure rather than through it. What carpentry can't do is regrade the hillside, and we'll say so plainly.
Logan County, which administers permitting and inspection separately from Mingo County. It matters most on anything structural or elevated. We confirm what applies before we start rather than after.
Usually, and Holden is the best case for it. The houses were built to standard patterns, so the profile you need is generally still visible on the same street. Where something genuinely can't be sourced we'll show you the nearest option rather than substituting quietly.
Quite possibly. These houses were built the same way at the same time on the same ground, so they tend to reach the same failures together. It's worth a look underneath before it becomes urgent.
It's the normal situation in the camps and it's usually the side the work is on. It affects access and how long material handling takes, not whether the repair can be done properly.
We handle decks across Williamson and the surrounding West Virginia communities.
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Most people are buying a result, not a list of tasks. Pick a topic to see what we look at before quoting in Holden.
So we take the detail from the houses rather than from a catalogue. That doesn't mean pretending a new deck is original — it means the proportions and the profiles read as part of the house instead of fighting it.
Where something genuinely can't be matched, we'll show you the nearest option up front rather than substituting quietly and letting you notice at the end.
The camps are set into the slope, so the back of a house is often the low side and that is exactly where people want the deck. That makes it an elevated structure with the load concentrated into a few points on a grade — bigger posts, larger footings, and bracing that stops it moving laterally.
The drainage here was laid out for the coal operation rather than for the houses, and water coming off the slope behind a house is the constant. For a deck that means footings that go past the wet surface soil, and keeping the runoff path clear of them rather than routing it straight through the structure.
Stepping the deck down the grade in levels is frequently the better build. It shortens the posts, brings the structure closer to the ground, and usually gives more usable space than one tall platform.
The uniformity that makes matching realistic also means these houses tend to reach the same problems together. If a neighbour has just had porch framing or a rear structure rebuilt, there's a fair chance yours is on a similar schedule, because it was built the same way at the same time on the same ground.
That is worth knowing before it becomes urgent, and it's a cheap thing to check. Getting underneath and looking at bearing points costs nothing like what it costs to deal with them after they've moved.
It's about forty-five minutes from Williamson, US-119 to WV-44. The camp streets are narrow and there's limited room to stage material, so the approach is tighter than the drive suggests — that affects the day rather than the price of the carpentry.
Holden is a planned coal town rather than a town that grew, and it shows in the housing more clearly than anywhere else we work. Island Creek Coal built these houses to a small number of standard patterns across the numbered camps, which means whole streets share a floor plan, a porch detail, and a foundation type. For carpentry that is genuinely useful: once we have seen the failure on one of them we know where to look on the next, and matching original trim and porch detail is realistic because the pattern is documented by the houses around it.
These houses are approaching a century old and were built with untreated framing on block and stone piers, set into hillside sites where drainage was designed for the coal operation rather than for the houses. Water coming off the slope behind a house is the constant, and the damage concentrates at the back and the low side — sill plates, joist bearings, and the porch structure where it steps down the grade. The uniformity that helps us diagnose also means the whole street tends to arrive at the problem together.
About forty-five minutes from Williamson, US-119 to WV-44. The camps sit up off the main road on narrow streets that were laid out for the era, so the approach is tighter than the drive suggests and there is limited room to stage material. Houses set into the hillside also mean the working side is often the awkward side, which affects the day rather than the price of the carpentry.
Tell us what you're building or repairing and get a clear, no-pressure quote. Free quotes, honest answers, and craftsmanship built to last.
