Serving Logan and nearby WV communities
In Logan, a new porch is usually a replacement. The housing here came with porches as standard, most of them are original, and there comes a point where a structure that's been repaired twice is better rebuilt than patched a third time.
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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.
The porches on Logan's older houses were framed in untreated lumber, set close to the ground, on block or stone piers rather than a continuous foundation. That was normal for the period and it works while the drainage does. After eighty or ninety years at the confluence of the Guyandotte and Island Creek, a lot of them are past the point where repair is the better value.
Full porch rebuilds on the original footprint
New piers and footings below frost depth
Covered porch structures, columns and roof framing
Steps and railings rebuilt to a consistent rise
Original post and railing profiles matched where possible
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.
It comes down to how much sound original structure is left. If the piers have moved and the joist ends and band board have gone, a repair is a rebuild paid for in instalments, and each instalment costs more in labour than doing it once. We get underneath and look before recommending either.
Not if it's built to the house. Post profiles, railing spacing, and board widths on this stock follow a recognisable pattern, and matching it closely is realistic. Where a specific original detail genuinely can't be sourced, we'll show you the nearest option up front.
Usually, since a covered porch is structural. Logan County handles permitting and inspection separately from Mingo County, so requirements differ depending which side of the line you're on. We confirm what applies before starting.
Yes — it's normal up the hollows here. It affects load sizes and how many trips material takes, which we allow for in the quote rather than discovering on the day.
Logan is a regular run for us — about 40 minutes from Williamson on US-119. It's well inside the hour we cover, and we're in Logan County often enough that it isn't a special trip.
It can be. Logan County and Mingo County administer permitting and inspection separately, so the same job can have different requirements depending which side of the line you're on. Structural work is the case where it matters most. We'll tell you what applies before we start rather than after.
No, it's normal here. It affects what we can haul in one trip and how long material handling takes, not whether the job can be done. We'd rather see the access before quoting so the number accounts for it.
We handle porches across Williamson and the surrounding West Virginia communities.
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The honest test is how much of the original structure would still be there afterwards. If the piers have moved, the band board has gone, and the joist ends are soft where they bear, a repair is really a rebuild being paid for in instalments — and each instalment costs more in labour than doing it once.
Where the structure is broadly sound and it's the surface that's failed, we'll say that too, and that's a repair job rather than this one.
A rebuild is the one chance to fix what the original construction got wrong — not because the builders were careless, but because they were working to what was available in 1930. Piers that go below frost depth, ground-contact material at every point near soil, standoff bases so post ends aren't sitting in water, and a floor sloped to shed rather than hold it.
None of that changes how the porch looks. It changes whether your grandchildren are having this conversation about the same porch.
Hillside runoff off the slopes behind these houses is the other thing worth designing around. Water that sheets toward the structure is what keeps the ground under it damp long after the rain stops, and keeping the footings clear of that path is a design decision, not an afterthought.
A new porch that reads as obviously modern against a ninety-year-old house looks worse than the tired one it replaced. Post profiles, railing spacing, and board widths can usually be matched closely enough that the porch looks like it has always been there.
Town lots in Logan are tight and sit right on the street, so material gets carried rather than backed in, and up the hollows off Island Creek and Mud Fork the driveways get steep. That affects how the build is staged and how long the day runs, and we put it in the quote rather than finding it on arrival.
Logan's housing runs heavily to early-to-mid 20th century stock built when the coal operations were at their peak — company-built houses in town and up the hollows, most of them wood-framed on block or stone piers rather than a poured perimeter foundation. Nearly all of them have a covered front porch, because that was standard on the pattern. Those porches were framed with untreated lumber and set close to grade, which is the single biggest reason porch work is the most common carpentry call in this county.
Logan sits at the confluence of the Guyandotte River and Island Creek, and the town has a long, documented flood history — the 1977 Guyandotte flood is still the benchmark locally. Repeated wetting is what drives the rot we see: sill plates, porch posts, joist ends, and the bottoms of exterior door frames. Add hillside runoff coming off the slopes behind the houses and you get wood that stays damp long after the weather clears.
Town lots in Logan are tight and often sit right on the street, so material gets carried rather than backed in. Up the hollows off Island Creek and Mud Fork the roads narrow and the driveways get steep, which limits trailer size and means longer carries. None of that changes the price of the carpentry — it changes how long the day takes, and we allow for it in the quote rather than discovering it on arrival.
Tell us what you're building or repairing and get a clear, no-pressure quote. Free quotes, honest answers, and craftsmanship built to last.
