Expert General Contractor in Hudson, Massachusetts

We work out of Charlton, 4 miles away — a short drive. That matters mostly for the unglamorous parts: getting back out for a warranty call, or being on site when the inspector is.

We do not. Every crew is on our payroll, which is why the standard does not drop between the first elevation and the last, and why you are not meeting new faces halfway through.

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.

Plan on two to four weeks for a combined siding, window and door package. Middlesex County weather does move schedules — ice dams forming at the eaves and pushing water back into the wall 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 Hudson, 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: two warranties that each point at the other when something leaks; earlier partial repairs that now have to be tied back into a whole elevation; and a schedule where the siding crew arrives before the windows do. Locally, lakeside humidity accelerating siding wear comes up repeatedly on charming downtown worker cottages.