Broadmoor Wallcraft · Hartwell Ferry, Colton Mills & Brassie Ford · Est. 1987
We would rather hang forty walls a year right than four hundred wrong.
The portfolio, because a promise needs witnesses
Kept walls
Six walls from Hartwell Ferry to Brassie Ford, photographed at the final walk — some this season, some a decade back, because the way a wall ages is part of the record. No staging, no color work; the factory finish came out of the box that way.
Services & rates
The rate card, sworn to
Per-square-foot rates off the previous season’s Ferry-county ledger, measured flat and counted open — tear-off, dumpster, wrap and flashings inside every line. The card is set in twelve-point type and the number is the number: in thirty-eight years it has moved only when the client changed the board.
Fiber-cement lap, installed$9.20–11.90 / sq ft
5/16″ board at 6.25″, 7.25″ or 8.25″ exposure, blind-nailed on gauge, ColorPlus baked finish or primed for site paint
Engineered-wood lap & panel$7.15–8.60 / sq ft
Treated strand core, primed, two site-sprayed coats in any color the street wears
Cedar, shake & reclaimed accentsfrom $13.80 / sq ft
Western red at gables and dormers; odd profiles matched from the reclaimed rack when honesty allows
Soffit, fascia & corner boards$9–14 / lin ft
Ventilated soffit runs, aluminum-wrapped fascia, 4/4 cement casings, joints left at 3/16″ and sealed
Wrap, flash & rain-screen$1.85 / sq ft
House-wrap lapped shingle-style, cap-nailed, integrated flashings, 10 mm battens, screened weeps
The letterpress audit, yearlyno charge
A photographed walk of every wall we have hung, free, for the first five years — the warranty with a heartbeat
Cut one board in a hundred to make it fit, and the wall remembers it longer than you do.
How it goes
Three weeks, told in five entries
The same sequence on every job — the only variable is your project.
Day 0
The measure, in writing
Walls measured flat, openings counted, exposures chosen against real corner samples in your own light. The quote is set the same evening — letterpress if you want the artifact, PDF if you do not — and the ColorPlus lead time is told to you straight: three to four weeks.
Days 1–3
Tear-off & repair
Old siding off to bare sheathing, forty years of weather inspected and repaired where it got in, every repair photographed before the wrap hides it. No overlays, ever — the card says so and so does the manual.
Days 4–5
Wrap & flash
House-wrap lapped shingle-style, seams taped and cap-nailed, integrated flashings at every opening, kick-outs at the rakes. The house is watertight from here to the walk, every night included.
Days 6–15
The hang
Starter to a laser, blind-nailed on gauge, 10 mm battens behind every course, butt joints left at 3/16″ and sealed. The gauge sheet stays taped to the job box where you and the county inspector can both read it.
Days 16–18
Seal, sweep, walk
Joints sealed, second coat where site-sprayed, magnet sweep twice, touch-up kit in the garage. Both warranties registered the same week, and the first yearly audit goes on the calendar before the truck leaves.
Why forty a year
Slow is a method, not an apology
A wall is two weeks of open house and thirty years of consequence, and every shortcut that fails at year eight — the overlay someone talked themselves into, the tight butt joint, the missing gap — saves exactly one afternoon. Broadmoor tears off to bare sheathing, wraps before it boards, hangs blind on gauge with a 10 mm rain-screen gap behind every course, and seals its joints at the width the manual draws. None of it is clever; all of it is countable, and counted.
Five and thirty, and a yearly walk
Five years on the labor — fastening, flashing, sealing, every caulk joint — re-done free. Up to thirty on the board and the factory finish, prorated, transferable once. And once a year for those five, a Broadmoor foreman photographs your wall and mails you the print. The warranty is not a drawer document here.
The craft, in figures
They matched the 1904 clapboard on the tollhouse from a reclaimed rack in the back of the shop — measured the exposure twice, cut once, and the patch reads like the wall grew there. The county heritage board asked who did it. That is the review.
The quote arrived as an actual letterpress card, and the number on the card was the number on the invoice to the dollar. When the tear-off found rot, the repair was priced and photographed before they proceeded. Nothing about the job was a surprise.
The yearly audit is the part nobody else offers. Year three they caught a caulk joint at the north corner going chalky and re-did the run free, before I had noticed. It costs them money and it buys them the street — four houses here wear the Broadmoor mark.
Before you write
Questions set in twelve point
The five every first letter reaches. If yours is not here, the shop answers its own phone, seven to five, Ferry county and the Mills included.
Why only forty walls a year?
Because the two weeks a wall is open is the part that decides its next thirty years, and a crew racing a quota cuts the parts nobody photographs: the gauge check, the tape, the third look at a butt joint. Forty is the number one crew with one foreman can hang without hurrying. We have turned down work for thirty-eight years and slept fine.
What exposure should the lap run?
The street answers that, not us: 6.25″ reads cottage-scaled, 7.25″ is the country default, 8.25″ belongs on tall four-squares and anything agricultural. We mock all three on a corner sample before you sign — the shadow line a catalog cannot show is the one you live with.
Can you really match a discontinued profile?
Sometimes. The common exposures are still run; the odd ones we cut from reclaimed stock when the reclaimed stock is honest, and when it is not we say so and quote the full elevation. A patch that reads like a patch costs you twice — once at the curb and once at the closing.
Do you take storm work?
Yes, and the storm gets the same card as everybody else: photographed from our ladder, scoped in the adjuster’s format, nothing torn off until the number is agreed. A gale does not change the typeface and it does not change the price.
What is the yearly audit, exactly?
A foreman with a camera and a caulk gun, once a year for five years, free. You get prints in the mail and a note on anything moving. It is how a 1987 wall still carries our name in 2026 — the paper was only ever half the warranty.
The shop answers its own phone · spring setting begins the first week of March · (555) 042-5167 · press@broadmoorwallcraft.example
Write to the shop
Street, town, rough age of the walls, and what they have been doing lately — storm, rot, or simply time. The measure is free, the card is set the same evening, and the number is the number. press@broadmoorwallcraft.example