Serving Kermit and nearby WV communities
In Kermit the front porch is often the only outdoor space a house has. There's no room behind, the lots are narrow, and what's on the front of the building does a lot of work — which is why it's worth building properly rather than replacing with a stoop.
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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.
Kermit sits on a narrow flat against the Tug Fork with houses packed onto what level ground there is. There's not much between the buildings and not much behind them, so the covered front porch that came with the house is generally the only sheltered outdoor space on the property.
Full front porch rebuilds on the original footprint
Covered entries where a porch was removed
Columns, railings, and steps to match the street
Piers and footings below frost depth
Ground-contact material at every point near soil
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.
That's your call, but it's worth knowing what you'd be giving up. On these houses the front porch is usually the only sheltered outdoor space, and it's a feature every house on the street shares. A rebuild on the original footprint keeps both.
We check before designing it. Flood damage in framing is slow — it works through band boards and joist ends for years while the floor above feels solid. If the wall's sound we tie in and flash it properly. If it isn't, that gets dealt with first and priced separately.
That's how we'd build it. The proportions on this stock are consistent — post spacing, railing height, roof pitch, porch depth — so we take the detail from the surrounding houses. It costs no more than building something arbitrary.
It's normal here and we allow for it in the quote. It affects staging and carry time rather than the carpentry itself.
No. We stay on the West Virginia side — that's a licensing matter, not a distance one. Kermit itself is well inside the area we cover.
Yes. Flood damage in framing is biological, not immediate — the wetting starts rot that works through joist ends and post bottoms over years. The floor above it can feel solid the whole time.
No, it's normal in town here. It affects staging and carry time, which we allow for in the quote.
We handle porches across Williamson and the surrounding West Virginia communities.
The full picture
Most people are buying a result, not a list of tasks. Pick a topic to see what we look at before quoting in Kermit.
That's the argument for rebuilding rather than removing. When one of these porches fails, replacing it with a concrete stoop takes away the one place the house had to sit outside — and it changes how the building looks on a street where every house has the same feature.
Rebuilds here go back on the original footprint, to the original proportions, with the structure underneath done to a standard the 1920s couldn't manage.
The Tug Fork is the whole story here. The town sits low against the river and has taken water repeatedly, and what it leaves is rot in the parts nobody inspects — sill plates, joist ends where they bear, post bottoms, the base of exterior door frames.
A porch roof ties into that wall. So before we design a structure that leans on it, we look at what's actually there. A floor that feels solid says nothing about the band board behind the siding, and building a new porch against framing that's gone is the whole job wasted.
Where the wall needs work first, we'll say so and price it separately rather than burying it. Where it's sound, the tie-in gets flashed properly so the new porch isn't the reason the wall goes next time.
Lots sit close to the street with limited parking, so material gets carried in and there's often nowhere to leave a trailer. It's the normal situation in town and we plan the day around it rather than treating it as a surprise.
It's about thirty minutes up US-52 along the river. The drive is easy; the staging is the part that takes thought. We make sure what we bring is what we need before leaving the yard.
We stay on the West Virginia side of the river — a licensing matter rather than a distance one. Kermit itself is comfortably inside the area we cover.
Kermit is a small town on a narrow flat right against the Tug Fork, and the housing is packed onto what level ground there is — older wood-framed homes, close together, most on block or pier foundations with covered porches as standard. There is not much room between houses and not much room behind them, so additions here tend to go up or onto the porch rather than out the back.
The Tug Fork is the whole story in Kermit. The town sits low against the river and has taken water repeatedly, and what that leaves behind is rot in the parts of a house nobody inspects — sill plates, the ends of floor joists where they bear, post bottoms, and the base of exterior door frames. It shows up long after the water is gone, which is why a floor that feels sound is not evidence of much.
About thirty minutes from Williamson up US-52 along the river, and the drive itself is easy. Working in town is the tighter part: lots sit close to the street with limited parking, so material gets carried and there is often nowhere to leave a trailer. We plan the day around that rather than treating it as a surprise.
Tell us what you're building or repairing and get a clear, no-pressure quote. Free quotes, honest answers, and craftsmanship built to last.
