Serving Man and nearby WV communities
Man's housing has a different age profile from the rest of the county. A large share of it went up in the rebuilding along Buffalo Creek rather than in the coal-camp era, so instead of hundred-year-old pier-built houses there is a lot of 1970s construction — and a lot of original decks now fifty years old.
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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.
A deck that has been on a house since the seventies was built to the standards of the seventies. That usually means a ledger nailed rather than bolted, no flashing above it, 4x4 posts doing work that would now get a larger section, and guard and rail heights set by what looked right at the time.
Ledger connections checked and replaced with bolts and flashing
Post sections and footings brought up to the actual load
Guards and rail heights corrected where they're short
Stair stringers and rise consistency rebuilt properly
Ground-contact material at every point near soil
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 depends on the ledger and the posts more than on the boards. If the connection to the house was nailed and never flashed — which is common on that vintage — that alone often decides it. Where the framing has held up, a rebuild on the same footprint using the existing layout is usually the sensible answer.
Frequently. Guard heights and baluster spacing on decks of that age often don't match what would be built now, and a lot of railing posts were fastened into the decking rather than into the frame. That feels solid to the hand and doesn't resist the sideways load a railing actually takes.
Yes — much of Man's housing is exactly that, and fifty-year-old construction has its own list. Original decks and porches at the end of their service life, exterior trim that's due, and framing details that were normal then and aren't now.
We'll be straight about it. Man is the furthest point we cover, so we group visits out here rather than making a special trip for one quote. That usually means a few days rather than same-week, and we'll tell you the timing when you call.
Yes, at the edge of it — about fifty-five minutes from Williamson. We cover it, but we schedule it as a full day rather than fitting it around other work.
Yes, and a lot of Man's housing is exactly that. Fifty-year-old construction has its own list — original decks and porches at the end of their life, exterior trim due for replacement, and framing details of a period that were normal then and aren't now.
We'll be straight about it — Man is the furthest point we cover, so we group visits here rather than driving out for a single look. That usually means a few days rather than same-week, and we'll tell you the timing when you call.
We handle decks across Williamson and the surrounding West Virginia communities.
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None of that was wrong when it was built, and none of it is safe to assume is still fine. Fifty years of weather on an unflashed ledger is the specific thing worth looking at, because that connection carries an entire side of the deck and its failure is sudden rather than gradual.
The good news is that a deck of that vintage is often worth rebuilding on the same footprint rather than redesigning. The layout usually still suits the house — it's the structure and the connections that have run out of time.
Man sits where Buffalo Creek meets the Guyandotte in a narrow valley, and long exposure on low ground is what the carpentry here reflects. Rot concentrates in the framing closest to the ground — post bases, stair stringers where they land, and anything that was ordinary treated lumber where ground-contact rated was needed.
Additions built at different times with different levels of protection underneath are common, and they're worth checking before a deck gets attached to one. What's behind the siding on a later addition is not always what's behind it on the original house.
The 1970s stock also reaches this point regardless of water. Exterior woodwork of that period is simply due now, whether or not it has ever been wet.
Man is roughly fifty-five minutes from Williamson, US-119 to WV-10. It's inside the hour we cover, but only just, so we schedule it as a full day rather than fitting it around other work and we make certain the material is right before leaving.
Up the Buffalo Creek hollow the road narrows and properties sit close to it, which limits where a trailer goes and where material gets stacked. That affects how the day runs rather than what the carpentry costs.
For quotes we group visits out here rather than driving out for a single look, which usually means a few days rather than same-week. We'd rather tell you that when you call than leave you waiting on a truck that isn't coming today.
Man sits where Buffalo Creek meets the Guyandotte, and its housing has an age profile that is genuinely different from the rest of the county. Along the Buffalo Creek hollow a large share of the homes date from the rebuilding after the 1972 flood rather than from the coal-camp era, so instead of hundred-year-old pier-built houses there is a lot of 1970s construction now reaching fifty years old. That is its own set of problems — original decks and porches at the end of their service life, and framing and trim of a period that used materials we no longer would.
Two creeks meeting in a narrow valley means water is the defining condition here, and the community's history with it needs no explanation from us. Practically, the work it produces is what long-term exposure does to structures on low ground: rot in the framing closest to the ground, porches and steps that have taken decades of wetting, and additions built at different times with different levels of protection underneath. The 1970s housing is also now at the age where its original exterior woodwork is due, whether or not it has ever been wet.
Man is the far edge of what we cover — roughly fifty-five minutes from Williamson, US-119 to WV-10. It is inside the hour, but only just, so we plan a full day here rather than a half and we make sure the material is right before leaving. Up the Buffalo Creek hollow the road narrows and the properties sit close to it, which limits staging room.
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