General Contractor in East Boston, Boston MA
Carpentry comes before coating on East Boston exteriors. Exposed harbor elevations take rain sideways. Caulk joints and end grain fail first, and they need checking every cycle. We repair or replace it first, because paint over soft wood buys a season.
General Contractor Services in East Boston
Carpentry Repair in East Boston
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 East Boston.
Wood Rot Repair in East Boston
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 East Boston.
Siding Repair in East Boston
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 East Boston.
Trim Installation in East Boston
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 East Boston.
Other services we run in East Boston: Start from the East Boston overview.
More on this trade generally: General Contracting across our service area.
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We run out of Allston and work across Greater Boston. Massachusetts HIC #193121, full liability, workers' compensation, and a two-year warranty on our workmanship.
Estimates in East Boston
Tell us the scope and we will price it properly.
(617) 777-7700 Call Now Request OnlineWhat General Contracting Work Here Actually Involves
Three-deckers and two-families, mostly 1890s through 1920s, with Italianate and Second Empire detail on Eagle Hill and postwar singles toward Orient Heights.
Most of our general contracting work here is for owner-occupied three-families and long-hold landlords, many of them second-generation in the same building.
Maximum salt exposure
Eastie is surrounded by water. Salt drives coating failure and fastener corrosion, and any exterior spec that ignores it will not last.
Wind-driven rain
Exposed harbor elevations take rain sideways. Caulk joints and end grain fail first, and they need checking every cycle.
Eagle Hill detail
The Eagle Hill housing has real Victorian trim under decades of repainting. Stripping back to a workable surface takes time.
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. In East Boston, Boston specifically, the work is mostly harbor-side three-deckers, and salt exposure on every elevation shapes how we schedule and stage it.
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
Before & After
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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.
Questions We Get Asked
Do you fix the wood before painting it in East Boston?
Can you match old trim profiles?
Is carpentry quoted separately?
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