Expert General Contractor in Brimfield, Massachusetts

Plan on three to four weeks end to end, including inspection slots. Hampden County weather does move schedules — Connecticut River Valley humidity that keeps sheathing damp long after the rain stops is the usual reason — so we build a weather margin into the date we give you rather than promising one we cannot hold.

You see it before we cover it. The rate for hidden damage is written into the contract up front, precisely so nobody is negotiating while the house is open.

We handle it. Filing with Brimfield, booking the inspection slots and being there when the inspector arrives are all ours under HIC #204634. You should not be chasing paperwork for work you are paying for.

You get a 5-year workmanship warranty on all of it, with manufacturer coverage on top. Both are in writing at handover. The workmanship warranty is ours, not a third party's, and it is the one that actually gets used.

The three we see most often here: water damage that spans siding, trim and window openings and cannot sensibly be split up; earlier partial repairs that now have to be tied back into a whole elevation; and exterior scope that grows once the walls are open, with no agreed rate for the extra. Locally, severe winter weather damage comes up repeatedly on springfield triple-deckers.

No — our own people, start to finish. Subcontracting is how a schedule slips and how nobody ends up owning a defect.