Licensed & Insured Rot Repair in Provincetown, MA

Rot Repair in Provincetown: what's different here

Provincetown is the end of the Cape and unlike anywhere else on it: dense, historic, and almost entirely within a local historic district. Houses sit inches apart on narrow lots along Commercial and Bradford Streets, many are 150 to 250 years old, and a large share have been converted to condos, guesthouses and rentals. Exterior work here means tight access, careful staging, historic review for anything visible from the street, and materials that survive salt air from three directions. Provincetown is about 75 minutes from Centerville, and we schedule these projects as continuous blocks.

Provincetown's 19th-century houses have distinctive trim that the Historic District Commission will want preserved or replicated. We match the profiles in cedar or PVC and use stainless fasteners for the salt air.

Rot repair is detective work. A soft corner board, a stained ceiling on the porch or a spongy sill is the symptom; the cause is usually water getting in somewhere higher up, through a missing kick-out flashing, a failed window head, a bad gutter joint or a roof-to-wall intersection that was never flashed. We open the area, remove and replace the rotted trim, sheathing and, if needed, framing, then fix the flashing so the water goes where it should. We finish with PVC or back-primed cedar so the repaired spot is the last one to have a problem.