General Contractor in Homewood, AL

Homewood's housing stock is one of the most architecturally varied in the Birmingham metro, ranging from 1920s brick cottages in Edgewood to mid-century ranches in West Homewood and Spanish Colonial homes on Hollywood Boulevard. Each building era used different materials and construction methods, and waterproofing or roofing a 1930s cottage is a different job than working on a 1960s ranch. A construction science background lets us read what the original builder did and plan repairs that work with the structure, not against it.

The compact lot sizes in Edgewood and Hollywood mean that water from a neighbor's yard can drain onto your property during a storm, adding to the runoff load that Homewood's older drainage infrastructure was not designed to handle. We assess grading and surface drainage as part of any waterproofing scope, because sealing a crawlspace or basement wall without addressing where the water is coming from only delays the next failure. Landscaping and grading corrections are part of the solution on many Homewood properties.

Roofing on Homewood's older homes involves flashing details at chimneys, dormers, and valleys that were installed with materials that have a finite service life. Alabama's annual rainfall and summer heat accelerate sealant breakdown at these transition points, and a flashing failure on a 1940s bungalow can send water into the wall cavity for months before it shows up as a stain on the ceiling. We inspect the full roofline, not just the field shingles, on every Homewood roof assessment.