Expert General Contractor in Holland, Massachusetts

We stop, photograph it and show you before covering anything back up. The repair rate is agreed in the contract before we start, so there is no renegotiation with your wall open.

The three we see most often here: exterior scope that grows once the walls are open, with no agreed rate for the extra; two warranties that each point at the other when something leaks; and work that was quoted by three separate trades who each assumed someone else was handling the flashing. Locally, severe winter weather damage comes up repeatedly on springfield triple-deckers.

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.

No. The crew on your Holland home is our own. It is the main reason we can hold a schedule and the main reason the same people who started your job are the ones who finish it.

We work out of Charlton, 38 miles away — under an hour. That matters mostly for the unglamorous parts: getting back out for a warranty call, or being on site when the inspector is.

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