Exterior & Interior Carpentry Services Renovations & Repairs

Exterior and Interior Carpentry & Wood Repair

Because there is so much wood on the South Shore and Boston area exteriors, almost 60% of projects start with some wood repair before painting.

One-stop shopping for your interior and exterior carpentry needs:

Our busy customers appreciate that we can manage the whole project for them and coordinate both the carpentry needed with the painting part of the project. For interior clients, decorative moldings such as wainscot, chair rails, and crown molding can be arranged.

Small and large carpentry projects for your interior or exterior:

We can manage any size project, from replacing a few shingles to installing windows, doors, flooring, molding, trim, clapboards, sheds and replacing decks.

For more information

Look at our comprehensive guide to wood replacement on the South Shore and in the Boston suburbs.

If you have any questions, please reach out to us at [email protected].

We’re happy to answer your questions, even if you’re doing the woodwork or painting yourself.

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Exterior Carpentry Services

Many area wood homes need some carpentry before exterior painting can begin.

We coordinate carpenters to replace rotted wood common to homes on the South Shore, South Coast, Plymouth, and Boston-areas before the professional painting crew is sent.

Shingle replacement – whole home re-shingling or replacing a few cedar shingles.

Clapboard replacement – Whole home clapboard replacement or just a few replacements of rotted clapboards.

PVC Trim replacement – We recommend replacing the rotted wood boards with PVC (like Azek) so they won’t rot again. You don’t have to replace all of your trim with PVC, just the rotted boards. The PVC will blend nicely with your original trim after it is painted. Historically accurate molding shapes that blend with the South Shore and Boston-area antique homes now come in PVC material!

Wood Trim replacement – If budget is a concern, it might make sense to replace your rotted trim boards with wood instead of PVC.

Sill replacement – Window sills tend to rot quickly for many reasons, including:
Older sills may not be “back-primed” before they are installed. This means that the wood on the sill may not be primed and therefore protected along the cuts, and can let the water soak in easily. Also, the unusual shapes of window sills allow water to enter them easily, and inexpensive sill window sill materials such as finger-jointed wood tend to rot quickly.

Woodpecker holes filled – Woodpecker holes are a common complaint on the South Shore, especially in the spring and fall and holes large an small need to be filled prior to the professional painters painting your home.

Other exterior carpentry projects we manage for you:

Front door replacement
Soffit replacement
Installation of aluminum and wood gutters (yes, wood gutters are a “thing” for a few of our South Shore customers!)
Deckboard replacement
Fence fixes
Window replacement

Our most asked exterior carpentry question: “What material should I use to replace my exterior trim? PVC or Wood?”

Depending on your budget, we use wood (less expensive) or PVC (more expensive) to replace the rotted exterior wood on your home or building.

Advantages of PVC replacement boards for your exterior:

PVC, such as the brand name Azek, is a cellular vinyl material that’s used in the building industry because it is more durable than wood because it doesn’t expand and contract as easily as wood does. If you’ll be in your home for a long time, splicing in PVC to the trim on your home is likely worth the extra expense. To clarify, we don’t have to replace ALL of your trim with PVC, we can simply splice in PVC on rotted wood boards so the vulnerable areas (like the boards near the ground) don’t rot in the future.

Once painted, PVC looks nearly identical to wood so that it won’t change the look of your home at all. Some companies even make historically accurate profiles of old antique wood trim now that we can use to keep your antique home authentic-looking but updated with modern materials

If you won’t live in your home for long and aren’t concerned with longevity, we can use less-expensive wood to replace the rotted boards on your home to save money.