Serving Holden and nearby WV communities
Holden's houses were built by Island Creek Coal to a small number of standard patterns, and the windows and doors were part of the pattern. That makes replacement here a question of proportion as much as performance — get the sightlines wrong and a company house stops looking like one.
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Recent door & window 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.
The window openings on these houses are consistent, and their proportions are part of what makes the camps look the way they do. A replacement that fills the same hole with a different pane pattern or a heavier frame changes the face of the building even when it performs better.
Replacements specified to the camp's original proportions
Openings repeated across a house at consistent sizes
Entry and back doors on the standard pattern
Openings on the low side checked for framing damage
Flashing detailed for a wall taking hillside runoff
What you get when Mackwood does your doors & windows — 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.
They can, and it is worth specifying before ordering. Proportion and pane pattern are what the eye reads on these houses, and because the camps repeat, the original reference is visible on the neighbours. Getting it right beforehand usually costs nothing.
Because that is the low side, and the drainage here was laid out for the coal operation rather than the houses. The framing around openings on that side has been taking runoff for decades, and it needs to be sound before a new unit goes in.
Often, and that helps. These houses were built to standard patterns, so where openings repeat, the units get cheaper and the install runs faster. We measure rather than assume, but the pattern usually holds.
Logan County, separately from Mingo County. It matters most where an opening is being resized or a header changed. We confirm what applies before starting.
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 doors & windows across Williamson and the surrounding West Virginia communities.
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Because the pattern repeats down the street, there is a reference right there. We can see what the original proportions were on the neighbours and specify to them, rather than guessing at what the house used to have.
That is a specification decision, made before ordering, and it usually costs little or nothing. Made afterwards, it costs the price of the windows.
These houses are set into the slope and the drainage was laid out for the coal operation rather than for the buildings. Water comes off the hill and sits against the back and low side, and the framing there has taken it for the better part of a century.
Openings on that side are the ones to check before ordering. Where the studs, sill or header around a window have gone, that has to be right before a new unit goes in, or the unit has nothing sound to be square to.
On the front and the high side it is generally ordinary work. Knowing which openings are which before quoting is most of what makes the number hold.
About forty-five minutes from Williamson, US-119 to WV-44. The camps sit up off the main road on narrow streets laid out for the era, so the approach is tighter than the drive suggests and there is limited room to stage.
Houses dug into the hillside mean the working side is frequently the awkward side, which on a window job is the difference between handing a unit through and carrying it round. It 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.
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