General Contractor in Dorchester, Boston MA
Porch posts and rail bases are where Dorchester three-deckers give out first. Water sits at the joints, freezes, and opens the grain. We cut out the rot and replace or consolidate it before painting, because a fresh coat over soft wood buys you one winter.
General Contractor Services in Dorchester
Carpentry Repair in Dorchester
Trim, doors, porches and structural wood — We repair the wood before we paint it. Painting over a rotted board is a one-season fix.. If you want the detail, here's how we handle carpentry repair in Dorchester.
Wood Rot Repair in Dorchester
Fascia, sills, casings and corner boards — Cut out the rot, treat with epoxy consolidant where the piece is salvageable, replace it where it isn't.. If you want the detail, here's how we handle wood rot repair in Dorchester.
Siding Repair in Dorchester
Clapboard, shingle and fiber cement — Damaged courses replaced and profile-matched, then primed on all sides before they go up.. If you want the detail, here's how we handle siding repair in Dorchester.
Trim Installation in Dorchester
Baseboard, casing, crown and millwork — Installed, caulked and painted as one job so the finish lines up with the walls.. If you want the detail, here's how we handle trim installation in Dorchester.
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What General Contracting Work Here Actually Involves
Three-deckers dominate — three floors, front and rear porches, wood clapboard or vinyl over it. Ashmont Hill and Melville Park break the pattern with Queen Anne and Colonial Revival single-families from the 1880s and 90s.
What a Contracting Quote Has to Account For
What drives the price
Carpentry pricing is mostly about what is behind the surface, which nobody knows until it is open. We price the known scope firmly and carry the unknowns as a written allowance rather than a vague contingency, so a rot repair that turns out to run further than the visible damage does not become an argument halfway through.
How the work is sequenced
Repairs come before finishes, always. There is no point painting trim that is going to be replaced, and no point replacing trim while the flashing above it is still letting water in. We work from the water source down: flashing and drainage first, then the substrate, then the carpentry, then the coating.
Where it usually goes wrong
The common failure is cosmetic work done over an unresolved cause. Filler over rot that still has a moisture path behind it will fail again in a season, and the second repair costs more than the first because the damage has spread. If we find a source we cannot fix, we tell you before we coat over it rather than after.
How long it takes
Carpentry runs on material availability as much as labour. Stock trim and standard dimensional lumber are immediate. Matched profiles for older houses can take weeks to source or mill, and we flag that at the estimate rather than discovering it mid-job.
Recent Work
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Colonial exterior, full repaintClapboard had failed down to bare wood across the elevation. Washed, scraped back, feathered, wood repaired, primed and finished in two coats.
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Family-owned painting contractor working out of Allston. Massachusetts Home Improvement Contractor license #193121, full liability and workers' compensation on every job.
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