Construction & Carpentry Contractor in Braintree, MA

Every Braintree project we take on begins with the same walk-through, because it is postwar development at scale on flat ground, now uniformly due for exterior replacement and the surprises here are structural rather than decorative.

The weather is not a footnote in Braintree. With storms off the water, rain that arrives close to horizontal, salt in the air well inland, and wind that loads exteriors harder than inland conditions, the difference between work that lasts twenty years and work that fails in three is entirely in the details nobody sees.

We plan around what is actually there: sand and gravel that sheds water quickly, level ground, and little between the house and the prevailing wind. That is why we walk the property before quoting rather than pricing from a phone call.

Postwar houses built at scale here are failing on the same schedule, and the shallow-pitch rear additions common to them are the first assembly to go.

Flat lots with minimal fall mean roof drainage has nowhere to go once gutters block.

The town expects drainage addressed when roof area increases.