Serving Man and nearby WV communities
Man's housing has a different age profile from the rest of the county. A large share of it dates from the rebuilding along Buffalo Creek rather than the coal-camp era, which means a lot of 1970s houses whose original porches are now fifty years old and finished.
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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.
A porch that's been on a house since the seventies was built to the standards of the seventies, and it has now had fifty years of weather in a narrow valley where two creeks meet. At that point the question usually isn't which parts to repair — it's whether the structure has anything left worth building on.
Full rebuilds on the existing footprint
New piers and footings below frost depth
Roof tie-ins flashed properly
Guard and rail heights brought up to standard
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.
On that vintage it's usually a rebuild, and it's rarely one thing that decides it. Undersized posts, nailed rather than bolted connections, no flashing at the roof, and railings that don't meet current standards add up to a structure with little worth building on. We'll show you what we find rather than just quoting.
Usually the sensible answer. The layout generally still suits the house — it's the structure and the connections that have run out of time. Same footprint, proper piers underneath, and detailing that will see another fifty years.
Yes — much of Man's housing is exactly that, and fifty-year-old construction has its own list. Original porches at the end of their service life, exterior trim that's due, and framing details that were normal then and aren't now.
We'll be straight about it. Man is the furthest point we cover, so we group visits rather than making a special trip for one quote. That usually means a few days rather than same-week, and we'll tell you the timing when you call.
Yes, at the edge of it — about fifty-five minutes from Williamson. We cover it, but we schedule it as a full day rather than fitting it around other work.
Yes, and a lot of Man's housing is exactly that. Fifty-year-old construction has its own list — original decks and porches at the end of their life, exterior trim due for replacement, and framing details of a period that were normal then and aren't now.
We'll be straight about it — Man is the furthest point we cover, so we group visits here rather than driving out for a single look. That usually means a few days rather than same-week, and we'll tell you the timing when you call.
We handle porches across Williamson and the surrounding West Virginia communities.
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What we find on that vintage is consistent: posts undersized by current thinking, connections nailed rather than bolted, no flashing where the roof meets the wall, and railing heights and spacings that wouldn't be built now. Individually each is fixable. Together they're a rebuild.
The advantage is that the footprint usually still suits the house. A rebuild on the same layout, with the structure done properly underneath, gets you the porch the house was meant to have without redesigning anything.
On a covered porch of this vintage the roof is the part that decides everything else. Where it meets the wall of the house there is often no flashing at all — that simply wasn't standard on a lot of seventies work — so water has been running down inside the junction for decades, into the wall and into the tops of the columns holding the roof up.
The tell is usually the ceiling. Stained or sagging porch ceiling boards mean water has been getting in above them for a long time, and by the time it shows there the roof framing behind it has generally had the same treatment.
Gutters are the other one. A gutter that has been overflowing back onto a porch roof for years does more damage than the weather does, and repairing woodwork under an active leak is money spent twice — the roof and the water get dealt with first, or the rebuild starts its own countdown.
The advantage of a full rebuild on a house of this age is that everything gets fixed at the same time rather than in the order things fail. Piers below frost depth, a floor that sheds water, columns on standoff bases so end grain isn't sitting in it, and a roof tie-in that's flashed so the wall behind stays dry.
That's not a more expensive porch than a cheap rebuild — it's the same porch with the parts nobody sees done to a standard that lasts. The difference in cost sits almost entirely in the footings and the flashing, and both are cheap compared with doing this again.
Man is the far edge of what we cover, so we plan a full day rather than fitting it around other work, and we group quote visits out here rather than driving out for one look. That usually means a few days rather than same-week, and we'll tell you the timing when you call.
Man sits where Buffalo Creek meets the Guyandotte, and its housing has an age profile that is genuinely different from the rest of the county. Along the Buffalo Creek hollow a large share of the homes date from the rebuilding after the 1972 flood rather than from the coal-camp era, so instead of hundred-year-old pier-built houses there is a lot of 1970s construction now reaching fifty years old. That is its own set of problems — original decks and porches at the end of their service life, and framing and trim of a period that used materials we no longer would.
Two creeks meeting in a narrow valley means water is the defining condition here, and the community's history with it needs no explanation from us. Practically, the work it produces is what long-term exposure does to structures on low ground: rot in the framing closest to the ground, porches and steps that have taken decades of wetting, and additions built at different times with different levels of protection underneath. The 1970s housing is also now at the age where its original exterior woodwork is due, whether or not it has ever been wet.
Man is the far edge of what we cover — roughly fifty-five minutes from Williamson, US-119 to WV-10. It is inside the hour, but only just, so we plan a full day here rather than a half and we make sure the material is right before leaving. Up the Buffalo Creek hollow the road narrows and the properties sit close to it, which limits staging room.
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