Serving Matewan and nearby WV communities
Storage in Matewan comes down to one question that other towns never have to ask: how quickly could this be moved? Where things are kept matters here, and so does how fast the room can be emptied.
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Shelving work we've completed around Williamson — photos going up as jobs are finished.
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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 most useful advice we can give about storage in this town costs nothing to follow. Whatever you would be sorry to lose belongs upstairs, or high on a wall, rather than in the lowest room in the house.
Upstairs shelf runs for anything that matters
Ground-floor shelving built to be cleared quickly
Storage held clear of the floor on utility walls
Shelving in tall narrow town houses using full height
Sealed-tub storage systems rather than open cardboard
What you get when Mackwood does your shelving & storage — 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.
Upstairs, or high on a wall — not the lowest room in the house. Ground-floor storage is fine for what you use weekly and would replace without thinking. It is the cheapest precaution available in this town.
On a ground floor, generally yes. An open wall with lift-out tubs can be stripped by two people in an hour; fixed cupboards with fixed contents cannot.
No. An open base keeps the shelving clear, lets a room be cleaned out properly, and means water passing through does not automatically take the structure with it.
Yes, and it is worth doing. Bring one out at the quote. Spacings built to your actual containers hold far more than spacings built to a default.
About twenty minutes from Williamson down WV-49 along the Tug Fork. It's one of the closest towns we cover, so scheduling is easy and a second trip for material isn't a problem.
It affects staging more than anything — where material gets dropped and how far it's carried. It doesn't change the work itself. We'd rather see it before quoting so the time is in the number.
Frequently, yes. On anything that took water, the damage tends to show up low and late — sill plates, joist ends, the bottoms of door frames and porch posts. It's worth checking those before assuming a problem is only cosmetic.
We handle shelving & storage 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 Matewan.
That is not pessimism, it is what the town's history says. Ground-floor storage still works for the things you use weekly and would replace without much thought. Documents, photographs, tools, anything with sentimental value or a receipt worth keeping — those want height.
Where a house has usable upstairs space that is not being used for storage at all, shelving it out is usually the cheapest risk reduction available. It is a day's work and it changes what a bad week would cost.
For the storage that does have to live on a ground floor, how it is built changes how fast it can be cleared. Open shelving with tubs that lift out beats fixed cupboards with doors and fixed contents, because two people can strip an open wall in an hour.
Standard-size sealed tubs rather than assorted boxes make that far quicker, and they stack in a vehicle. Sizing the shelf spacings to the tubs you actually own is a five-minute conversation at the quote that pays for itself.
The shelves themselves get held off the floor with an open base, which also means water passing through does not necessarily take the shelving with it.
Houses in the historic core sit on the street with no driveway and a narrow route in. Shelving suits that better than most work — it comes in as boards and gets cut in place.
Twenty minutes from Williamson down WV-49, close enough that a second run for material is not a problem.
If you already have a system that works, tell us. Matching what you have is usually cheaper and always more useful than replacing it with something better on paper.
Matewan is a small, dense town on the Tug Fork with a historic commercial core and housing that runs mostly to early 20th century wood-framed homes, many of them built during the coal boom on narrow lots close to the street. Front porches are near universal on this stock. Because the buildable ground is so limited between the river and the hillside, houses sit tight together and additions were built where there was room rather than where a plan would have put them.
Matewan's defining condition is water. The 1977 Tug Fork flood devastated the town, and the Corps of Engineers floodwall that now protects the downtown was built in response. Properties outside the wall, and anything that predates it, carry the history of repeated inundation in their framing — sill plates, joist ends, and the bottom courses of exterior walls are where that shows up as rot years later.
The old town lots are narrow and many sit directly on the street with no driveway, so material gets carried and there is often nowhere to stage a trailer. Work near the floodwall and in the historic core needs more care about where things get parked and stacked. It is a twenty-minute run from Williamson, so returning for a second load is not the problem it would be further out.
Tell us what you're building or repairing and get a clear, no-pressure quote. Free quotes, honest answers, and craftsmanship built to last.
