Expert General Contractor in Fairhaven, Massachusetts

Plan on a few weeks, planned around the weather window. Bristol County weather does move schedules — salt-laden air that strips coatings and pits fasteners years earlier than inland weather does is the usual reason — so we build a weather margin into the date we give you rather than promising one we cannot hold.

That is on us. We pull the permit from Fairhaven, sequence the inspections around the work, and attend them. A contractor who asks you to pull your own permit is telling you something.

The three we see most often here: work that was quoted by three separate trades who each assumed someone else was handling the flashing; a rebuild that stalls because nobody sequenced the permit against the material lead time; and water damage that spans siding, trim and window openings and cannot sensibly be split up. Locally, deteriorating asbestos siding comes up repeatedly on mill worker cottages.

Sometimes. On a mill worker cottages we can often match a single elevation closely enough that it reads as original. Where the existing material has faded past matching, we will say so rather than sell you a repair you will be unhappy with.

We work mainly in full-exterior envelope work, porch and entry rebuilds, trim, soffit and fascia systems, and we are certified installers for James Hardie, Andersen, Therma-Tru. Which of those makes sense for your Fairhaven home depends on exposure and budget, and we will tell you when the cheaper option is the right one.

You get material coverage from each manufacturer and one 5-year guarantee across the entire project. 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.