Expert General Contractor in Newbury, Massachusetts

Plan on a few weeks, planned around the weather window. Essex 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.

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.

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 schedule where the siding crew arrives before the windows do; and exterior scope that grows once the walls are open, with no agreed rate for the extra. Locally, salt air corrosion on exterior materials comes up repeatedly on saltbox colonials.

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.

Sometimes. On a saltbox colonials 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 protect the planting, keep the debris contained, and sweep for nails daily. You will still know there is a crew here, but you will be able to park and walk the garden.