Expert General Contractor in West Tisbury, Massachusetts

Plan on three weeks on average when several trades are sequenced together. Dukes County weather does move schedules — nor'easters that load a wall with water and wind from the same direction for hours is the usual reason — so we build a weather margin into the date we give you rather than promising one we cannot hold.

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.

All of it, including West Tisbury Center, South West Tisbury, West West Tisbury and the rest of ZIP 02575. We also work throughout Dukes County.

Sometimes. On a martha's vineyard gingerbread 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.

The three we see most often here: exterior scope that grows once the walls are open, with no agreed rate for the extra; earlier partial repairs that now have to be tied back into a whole elevation; and work that was quoted by three separate trades who each assumed someone else was handling the flashing. Locally, extreme salt spray corrosion comes up repeatedly on martha's vineyard gingerbread cottages.

We work out of Charlton, 82 miles away — a planned trip. That matters mostly for the unglamorous parts: getting back out for a warranty call, or being on site when the inspector is.