
Whittemore Home Improvement
About us
Whittemore Home Improvement has been serving the South Shore and beyond for over 40 years. We pride ourselves on a quality installation and invite you to see a job in progress. We offer assistance with color and style selection. As a complimentary service, you can meet the owner, Mark Whittemore, for an in home consultation. A Portfolio is presented and includes a Proposal and Specification Sheet, Customer Referrals, Insurance Documentation and Product Literature.
Business highlights
Services we offer
Residential and commercial installation of vinyl siding, decking & railing systems., doors, gutters, roofing, skylights, sliding doors, trim, windows
Amenities
Emergency Services
Yes
Free Estimates
Yes
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"Myself, Mark and the Crew appreciate and thank you for your kind words! We all work hard together as a team to ensure a superior installation and color design. It was a pleasure working for you and beautifying your home. Please reach out at any time should any questions arise in the future. Many thanks again for taking time out of your schedule to provide this wonderful feedback and recommendation, we truly appreciate it! Best Regard, Darlene Whittemore"
"Dear Mr. & Mrs. [Member Name Removed], Thank you for taking the time out of your day to provide a review. It was a pleasure to work on your home!"
We had other estimates with contractors and decided that Mark was the best to hire. We decided on the Certain Teed, cedar impressions vinyl siding and in addition we also decided to have the roofing replaced. Mark uses a sub contractor for the roof and they stripped two layers,and installed the new architectural shingles and ridge vent in one day. They did an excellent job.
Marks crew, John, Tom and Mark did an excellent job installing the siding. The preparation work is the most important part of the installation and they wrapped the house with Typar, taped all seams and paid special attention to flashing the entire house before they started applying the siding ensuring that the house would be weather proof. I also needed electrical work done since the cabling for the electric meter was old and the plastic shielding around the wires was cracked and since it needed to be temporarily pulled away from the house in order to install the new siding I decided for safety sake that it would be best to replace the cables and install them in new pvc conduit eliminating any water entering the electrical panel. Marks crew member Mark is also a licensed journeyman electrician and he did an excellent job replacing the electrical cables and he provided a new electrical meter box. This was a great relief to me now that I have a safe electrical service.
Mark and his crew also installed an Anderson sliding door to the deck and it looks great in addition to the new siding. The entire house looks brand new and unless you actually feel the siding up close you would think it to be real cedar siding from a distance.
My wife and I are very pleased with the entire project. Mark and his entire crew are pleasant to work with, professional and I highly recommend them for a very professional job.
"Dear Mr. & Mrs. [Member Name Removed], Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to provide a review regarding the details of your project It was our pleasure to serve you and provide quality materials to beautify the exterior of your home! We take pride in our work and truly appreciate the opportunity you afforded us for your remodeling project! Best Regards, Darlene Whittemore"
"Dear Mr. [Member Name Removed], I spoke to an Angies Representative, Darren, in December of 2016 to inform him that that we did not provide services to your home. I was informed an investigation would commence to confirm. I was just informed that the investigation was never implemented and subsequently too much time as passed to make the correction. Would you kindly refer to your agreement with your contractor and appropriately adjust your review? Many thanks! Respectively yours, Darlene Whittemore Whittemore Home Improvement"
In October 2013, after getting inconsistent estimates for vinyl siding, I joined Angie's list. I contacted two companies selecting them for their ratings. Both companies appeared professional, polite, and arrived on time. They both seemed thorough and knowledgeable. Both estimates were amazingly close in price, which actually made me feel that they were pricing the work honestly and understood the job. I chose Whittemore Home Improvement because Mark?s pride when talking about his work was very apparent, and I liked his responses to questions I asked him relating to cost assumptions. I was also very impressed with his wife, Darlene?s, professionalism from a customer service perspective. We scheduled the work for January, as I wanted it done before spring due to issues with woodpeckers. I should note that we experienced a very harsh winter, and Mark did not let snow storms slow his progress.
Quality of work was the most important factor to me, but budget was the second most important. I was thrilled to be able to afford to replace my old windows with new efficient ones. That was very unexpected. Nevertheless, I was watching the bottom line every moment. When I decided to install windows without a wood grain interior, Mark suggested he could probably face one area of the front of my house with pricier Cedar Impressions siding that I favored. I politely explained that I had a budget and it could not be exceeded for any reason. In other words, if the cost savings from the less expensive windows did not cover the amount of Cedar Impressions he was suggesting, I didn?t want it. Mark listened to my concerns, and eventually not only did the whole job precisely on budget, but he also used the Cedar Impressions on the entire front of my house. I think he used it because it clearly made the house look better, and I do appreciate that. The one and only rough patch we had during the entire project came at the very end when Mark mistakenly installed a steel basement door instead of the fiberglass one we had discussed. I know what you?re thinking---how can a professional make that mistake? I questioned that myself. But, to be fair, he had been ill and was working through it. When I confirmed steel and fiberglass door pricing at Lowes, I determined the $30 or so difference in price indicated this was truly an honest mistake because the amount of grief I gave Mark (hours of it) was definitely not worth the $30, believe me! In the end, I felt that the service he provided and the many extras (free leaf guards on the gutters, free shutters, re-installing a light fixture, removing deck rails and then re-installing them, installing new plastic mounts for light and utility fixtures, painting some utility fixtures to match the house color, and using the Cedar Impressions on the entire front of the house) offset the mistake with the door. A couple of weeks after the job was finished and the snow had melted, Mark came back to make sure the yard was clean. I highly recommend Whittemore Home Improvement for an excellent job at an excellent price.Licensing
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