Serving Holden and nearby WV communities
Holden's houses were built by Island Creek Coal to a small number of standard patterns, and the windows and doors were part of the pattern. That makes window replacement in Holden a question of proportion as much as performance. Get the sightlines wrong and a company house stops looking like one.
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The kind of door & window 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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Send a few photos and we'll tell you what it'll take — free written quote, no pressure.
The window openings on these houses are consistent, and their proportions are part of what makes the camps look the way they do. A replacement window that fills the same hole with a different pane pattern or a heavier frame changes the face of the building even when it performs better.
Replacement windows specified to the camp's original proportions
Repeated openings measured and ordered as a set
Front doors that suit the standard pattern
Openings on the low side checked for framing damage
Flashing detailed for a wall taking hillside runoff
What you get when Mackwood does your window replacement — 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.
They can, and it is worth specifying before ordering. Proportion and pane pattern are what the eye reads on these houses, and because the camps repeat, the original reference is visible on the neighbours. Getting it right beforehand usually costs nothing.
Because that is the low side, and the drainage here was laid out for the coal operation rather than the houses. The framing around openings on that side has been taking runoff for decades, and it needs to be sound before a new unit goes in.
Often, and that helps. These houses were built to standard patterns, so where openings repeat, the units get cheaper and the install runs faster. We measure rather than assume, but the pattern usually holds.
Logan County, separately from Mingo County. It matters most where an opening is being resized or a header changed. A straight window replacement in the same opening usually is not a factor, and we confirm what applies before starting.
Usually, and Holden makes it easier than most places. The original door style is often still hanging two houses down, so we can choose a panel and glass layout to suit before ordering rather than guessing.
Usually, and Holden is the best case for it. The houses were built to standard patterns, so the profile you need is generally still visible on the same street. Where something genuinely can't be sourced we'll show you the nearest option rather than substituting quietly.
Quite possibly. These houses were built the same way at the same time on the same ground, so they tend to reach the same failures together. It's worth a look underneath before it becomes urgent.
It's the normal situation in the camps and it's usually the side the work is on. It affects access and how long material handling takes, not whether the repair can be done properly.
We handle window replacement across Williamson and the surrounding West Virginia communities.
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Because the pattern repeats down the street, there is a reference right there. We can see what the original proportions were on the neighbours and specify to them, rather than guessing at what the house used to have.
That is a specification decision, made before ordering, and it usually costs little or nothing. Made afterwards, it costs the price of the windows.
Where a house was built to a pattern, its window openings tend to repeat as well, and that is useful when it comes to ordering. Several windows of one size cost less each than a run of different ones, and the install goes faster because the same fit is being made over and over.
We still measure every opening rather than assuming. Ninety-odd years on piers moves some openings more than others, and the one that has shifted is usually the one on the low side of the house.
Front doors follow the same logic. The door that suits the pattern is often visible two houses down, which makes front door replacement here a question of choosing a door the street already agrees with.
These houses are set into the slope, and the drainage was laid out for the coal operation rather than for the buildings. Water comes off the hill and sits against the back and low side, and the framing around the openings there has taken it for the better part of a century. Those are the ones to check before ordering.
It is about forty-five minutes from Williamson, US-119 to WV-44. The camps sit up off the main road on narrow streets with limited room to stage, and houses dug into the hillside mean the working side is often the awkward side. That affects the day rather than the price of the carpentry.
Holden is a planned coal town rather than a town that grew, and it shows in the housing more clearly than anywhere else we work. Island Creek Coal built these houses to a small number of standard patterns across the numbered camps, which means whole streets share a floor plan, a porch detail, and a foundation type. For carpentry that is genuinely useful: once we have seen the failure on one of them we know where to look on the next, and matching original trim and porch detail is realistic because the pattern is documented by the houses around it.
These houses are approaching a century old and were built with untreated framing on block and stone piers, set into hillside sites where drainage was designed for the coal operation rather than for the houses. Water coming off the slope behind a house is the constant, and the damage concentrates at the back and the low side — sill plates, joist bearings, and the porch structure where it steps down the grade. The uniformity that helps us diagnose also means the whole street tends to arrive at the problem together.
About forty-five minutes from Williamson, US-119 to WV-44. The camps sit up off the main road on narrow streets that were laid out for the era, so the approach is tighter than the drive suggests and there is limited room to stage material. Houses set into the hillside also mean the working side is often the awkward side, which affects the day rather than the price of the carpentry.
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