Serving Delbarton and nearby WV communities
Delbarton has the room that most of the towns around here don't. Lots are deeper, there's space behind the house, and a covered porch can be the size that's actually useful rather than the size the lot allows. The thing to design around is the water coming off the hill.
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Recent porch 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, which means a rear or side porch is realistic here in a way it isn't in Matewan or Kermit. Covered rear porches, wraparounds on a corner lot, and screened sections are all buildable.
Covered rear and side porches on deeper lots
Screened sections for the summer
Full front porch rebuilds on older stock
Footings sized for roof load as well as floor load
Ground-contact material and standoff bases throughout
What you get when Mackwood does your porches — 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.
Yes, and there's more room to do it here than in most of the towns we cover. A roof means the posts carry roof load as well, so the footings and post sections go up to match. It's worth deciding at the design stage rather than adding a roof later to a frame that wasn't built for it.
Not if it's built for it — footings below frost depth, ground-contact material, standoff bases so posts aren't sitting in the wet. What carpentry can't do is regrade your lot. That's a different trade and we'll say so rather than pretending otherwise.
Yes, and it's a reasonable ask here where the lots are open enough to get evening use out of one. It's best planned in from the start, because the framing, post spacing, and roof structure all suit it better when they were designed with screening in mind.
Mingo County, which administers permitting and inspection separately from Logan County. A covered porch is structural, so it usually applies. We confirm what your address needs before we start.
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 porches 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 Delbarton.
That changes the design conversation. On a tight lot the question is what fits; here it's what you'll actually use — whether it needs a roof, whether it needs screening for the summer, and whether it's an outdoor room or a covered way to get from the door to the drive without getting wet.
A roof changes the structure underneath it. The posts are carrying roof load as well as floor load, so footings and post sections go up accordingly, and that's a decision made at the start rather than by adding a roof later to a frame that wasn't built for one.
Delbarton sits in a creek valley, and the recurring theme in everything we're called out for is water sheeting down off the slopes toward the houses rather than away from them. For a new porch that means footings in ground that saturates and stays that way.
So they go below frost depth and get sized for the actual load. Posts sit on standoffs rather than in the wet. Anything near soil is ground-contact rated rather than ordinary treated. Steps get the same treatment, because the bottom stringer is the part that sits in the runoff.
What carpentry can't do is move the water. Regrading a lot is a different trade and we'll tell you that rather than taking money for a fix that isn't one. What we can do is build a structure that doesn't care.
A screened porch is the version people here get the most use out of, because it turns a covered slab of shade into somewhere you can sit through a valley summer. It's worth deciding on before the frame goes up rather than after.
Screening changes the framing. Post spacing wants to suit panel widths, the roof structure has to close off at the top cleanly, and the sill detail at the bottom needs to shed water rather than collect it behind a screen frame. Retrofitting screen into a porch built without it always looks like a retrofit.
Doors are the other decision. A screen door that opens the sensible way, positioned where people actually walk, is a small thing that gets noticed daily — and it's free to get right at the design stage.
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.
Tell us what you're building or repairing and get a clear, no-pressure quote. Free quotes, honest answers, and craftsmanship built to last.
