Serving Chattaroy and nearby WV communities
Almost every floor joist repair we look at in Chattaroy involves an addition. These houses grew over the years, and where one era of building meets another is where the floor framing gets confused about what's holding it up. Confused load paths are what eventually sag.
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The kind of floor joist repair work we take on across Williamson and the surrounding West Virginia communities.
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.
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When a house is designed, the weight has a route to the ground, and every joist and beam is sized for its share. When rooms are added over decades by different hands, that route gets extended and changed, not always by someone thinking about it.
Load paths traced through the original house and additions
Addition floors given the support they were built without
Beam bearings corrected at the ends
Long joist spans in back rooms sistered or supported
Sole plates on slab-built additions renewed
What you get when Mackwood does your floor joist repair — and what we won't do.
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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 can be. If the step has always been there, it may just be two floors built at different levels. If it's getting bigger, the addition side is still moving, and that usually means its support underneath has settled or rotted.
Yes. The sole plate is the timber the whole wall stands on, and it will hold up a long time after it has mostly gone. Replacing it means taking the wall's weight temporarily and putting it back with a proper moisture break.
Very likely. Both are signs of something below losing capacity gradually. In houses that have been added onto, it's usually an addition partly carried by the original structure, or a beam that was never sized for what it's holding.
We're about ten minutes away, so yes. We can get eyes on it, shore it if it needs shoring today, and schedule the real repair properly.
No, and it's the one place where that's least likely to be a problem. We're about ten minutes away, so small repairs here don't carry the travel cost that makes them awkward further out.
It's the most common thing we find in Chattaroy. Additions here were frequently built onto the original house over time, and the joint between old and new is usually where water gets in and framing gives up first.
It changes what we check, not what we can do. We probe the low framing rather than judging by what the floor feels like, because flood rot shows up years later and well below where anyone is looking.
Rotted fascia, soffit, sills, and siding, cut back to sound wood and replaced.
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What we find under these floors is predictable once you know to look: addition joists hung off the original sill with nothing of their own under the far end, a beam added to hold something up without proper bearing at its ends, and floor framing in the back room running a longer span than the original ever did.
None of that fails quickly. It sags over years, and it shows up as a floor that steps at the doorway into the addition, doors that bind, and a ceiling line that isn't straight any more.
A common sign in a house built in stages is a floor that drops at the threshold between the original house and a later room. Sometimes it's been that way for years. Sometimes it's getting worse.
The difference tells us a lot. A step that has always been there is often a floor built at a slightly different level and left that way. A step that's growing means the addition side is still settling, usually because its floor framing is resting on a sill, block or post that has moved or rotted.
Where the back room sits on a slab rather than joists, the problem moves to the sole plate, the timber the wall stands on. On low ground this close to the river it wicks water continuously, and replacing it means taking the wall's weight temporarily and putting it back with a proper break underneath.
Chattaroy is about ten minutes from us, which on floor framing matters more than on almost anything else. Diagnosis is most of the job, and being close means we can take the time to trace where the load is actually going rather than pricing high for a trip we don't want to repeat.
It also means shoring a floor quickly is realistic if it needs shoring today, and that a staged repair, where a settled addition floor is brought back up over several visits, doesn't cost you a day's travel each time.
Chattaroy is strung along the bottom between the Tug Fork and the hillside, and the housing reflects that — wood-framed homes built on the flat wherever there was room, a lot of it former coal-camp stock that has been added onto over the years rather than replaced. Porches, rear additions, and enclosed back rooms are common, and they were often framed by different hands at different times. That matters more than it sounds: the additions are usually where the framing and the water problems meet.
There is very little ground here that is not close to the river. Properties on the flat have taken Tug Fork water more than once, and the ones tucked against the hill take runoff instead, so the exposure is different but the result is the same — framing that stays wet. The failures we find are concentrated low: sill plates, joist ends, post bottoms, and the sole plates in additions that were built without much of a moisture break underneath.
Chattaroy is the closest town on our list — about ten minutes from Williamson. That changes the economics of small work more than anything else here. A half-day repair that would be marginal an hour out is a straightforward job in Chattaroy, and we can come back for a second look or a forgotten piece of material without it costing the day.
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