Serving Lenore and nearby WV communities
Lenore's housing is mixed in a way that changes this work — older wood-framed houses up the hollows, and a good number of manufactured homes with structures added to them over the years. The rot we are called out for tends to be in what was added rather than in what arrived.
We'll reach out to schedule a look.
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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.
Decks, porches, roofed entries, steps and skirting get added to homes here over time, and they are usually built closer to the ground and with less protection underneath than the home itself. That is where the damage concentrates.
Step stringers and landings sitting in wet ground
Skirting and underpinning framing in soil contact
Framing of structures attached rather than free-standing
Sill plates and joist ends on older stock
Door frames and thresholds taking splash-back
What you get when Mackwood does your wood repairs — 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.
The home itself is usually not the problem — what was added to it is. Steps, skirting, decks and roofed entries sit closer to the ground with less protection, and that is where we find it. Where something was attached to the home rather than standing on its own footings, that is structural as well as rotten.
Because the rot was at the bearing points rather than on the surface. In conditions where a structure never fully dries, damage works quietly at the points carrying load while everything visible stays sound — so it holds for years and then goes quickly.
It can make the structure handle it — ground-contact material, standoffs, a proper break between wood and soil. Regrading the ground itself is a different trade and we will tell you that rather than charging you to not fix it.
No, it is common up the hollows here. It affects how material gets in and how many trips it takes, which we build into the quote rather than discovering on the day.
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 wood repairs across Williamson and the surrounding West Virginia communities.
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On a manufactured home the specific things we find are skirting and underpinning framing sitting directly on soil, steps whose stringers land in wet ground, and the framing of anything that was attached to the home rather than standing on its own footings. The last of those is structural as well as rotten, and it is worth knowing which you have.
On the older wood-framed houses it is the familiar pattern — sill plates, joist ends over a damp crawl space, and door frames taking splash-back from ground that sheds toward the house.
Away from the main river the water here comes down the hollow rather than up from a river. Properties sit below ground that sheds toward them, and the result is a structure that never fully dries out — which is harder on wood than a single soaking would be.
It produces a particular failure curve. Things hold up for years, then go quickly, because the rot has been working at the bearing points where nobody looks while everything visible stayed sound.
Repairs here get built for that. Ground-contact rated material at every point near soil, standoff bases so end grain is not wicking, and a real break wherever wood would otherwise sit on damp ground.
WV-65 addresses are straightforward. Up the hollows the driveways get long, gravelled and steep, and some will not take a loaded trailer at all. That does not change the carpentry or what it costs — it changes how many trips material takes and how long the day runs.
At about twenty-five minutes from Williamson the drive is not the issue. The last two hundred yards sometimes is, which is why we would rather see the access before putting a number on it than adjust the number afterwards.
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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