Serving Lenore and nearby WV communities
Doors on manufactured homes sit well above the ground, and the steps and railing people use to get up to them are frequently the weakest thing on the property. Stair railing installation in Lenore is often about a rail that was bolted to the wrong thing.
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The kind of stair & railing work we take on across Williamson and the surrounding West Virginia communities.
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.
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A handrail beside these steps should be fixed to the stair structure rather than to the home. The walls are lighter than in a stick-built house, and a rail bolted to one has to resist someone falling into it, a load that will pull a fixing out of a thin wall rather than holding.
Handrails fixed to the stair structure, not the home's wall
Guards on the open sides of door landings
Railing posts carried down to footings
Steps and landings standing independent of the home
Consistent rise from door threshold to ground
What you get when Mackwood does your stair railings — 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.
We would rather it was not. A rail has to resist someone falling into it, and that load will pull a fixing out of a lighter wall rather than holding. The posts should be part of the stair, tied to the stringers and carried down to the footings.
If it has an open side with a real drop, yes. That is where a misstep turns into a fall off the edge, and a guard there does more than the rail on the steps.
Resetting onto the same ground gets you the same result in a few winters. Nothing underneath goes below frost depth, so freeze and thaw lift them a little each year. Proper footings are the durable fix, and the railing goes on after.
They can be, if what they stand on is right and the railing is solid. Most of the ones we look at are not failing as products; they are sitting on ground that moves. Fixing what is underneath usually matters more than replacing what is on top.
Yes, and it should be built free-standing on its own footings rather than hung off the home's frame. That's the correct way to do it and it's what we'll quote. If you have an existing deck that was attached to the home, that's worth us looking at.
Carpentry can make the structure handle it — proper standoffs, ground-contact material where it belongs, drainage kept away from posts and steps. Regrading the ground itself is a different trade and we'll tell you that rather than charging you to not fix it.
It's common up the hollows here. It affects how material gets in and how many trips it takes, which we build into the quote instead of discovering on the day.
We handle stair railings across Williamson and the surrounding West Virginia communities.
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So the posts are part of the stair, tied into the stringers and carried down to the footings. That way the rail is as solid as the structure it belongs to, and nothing is asking the home to do a job it was not built for.
Where a rail is already fixed to the home and moving, it is worth dealing with before it takes the wall surface with it. The landing at the door needs a guard on its open sides as well, because that is where the drop is.
The common arrangements under these doors are a prefabricated set of steps that has settled out of level, a timber flight built on blocks laid on soil, or a landing that moves when you stand on it. They share one root cause: nothing underneath goes below frost depth.
Ground that freezes and thaws lifts anything sitting on it, a little each winter. A railing fixed to steps like that goes out of line with them, and a flight that was level when it was built is out of true within a few years.
The durable answer is steps and a landing on their own footings, standing independent of the home, with the railing built as part of them. Hollow runoff keeps the ground here damp, so ground-contact rated material goes where it belongs.
Measuring matters more than people expect, because the threshold height determines everything. Get the total rise right and every step is even and the rail runs parallel to the flight. Get it wrong and the bottom or top step is the odd one out, which is exactly the step that catches someone.
Up the hollows the driveways are long, gravelled, and steep, so we build in sections and assemble where the flight goes. About twenty-five minutes from Williamson on WV-65, with the access being the part worth seeing before quoting.
Lenore is spread out rather than gathered into a town centre — houses sit along WV-65 and up the creek hollows that feed it, on deeper and more open lots than the river towns get. The stock is mixed: older wood-framed houses, a fair number of manufactured homes that have had decks, porches, and roofed entries added to them, and outbuildings of every vintage. Those add-ons are frequently the work we're called about, because a deck built onto a manufactured home has to be free-standing and often wasn't.
Away from the main river, the water problem here is creek and hillside runoff rather than flood stage. Properties up the hollows sit below ground that sheds water toward them, and the recurring pattern is a structure that never fully dries — damp crawl spaces, rot at the base of steps and posts, and ground-contact framing that was not rated for it. It works for years and then goes quickly.
The WV-65 addresses are easy. Up the hollows the driveways get long, gravelled, and steep, and some of them will not take a loaded trailer at all. About twenty-five minutes from Williamson, so the drive is not the issue — the last two hundred yards sometimes is, which is why we like to see the access before quoting.
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