Fitchburg was built on mills, and a lot of its houses date back to that era. You'll see triple-deckers stacked up steep hillsides, older single-families with tall roofs, and plenty of capes and ranches from later decades. Most have been patched over and re-sided at least once. That's normal for a house this age, but it means you never know what you'll find until someone opens a wall.
Hills mean wind, and wind means rain hitting your siding sideways. Steep streets also send runoff toward foundations, so a gutter that overflows does real damage. Old roofs on tall houses take the full force of snow and ice. And on century-old framing, water that got in years ago may have already softened sills, sheathing and window frames without leaving a mark on the outside.
We open it up and look before we price it. Then we fix what's rotten, wrap the walls in Tyvek with taped seams, flash every window and door, and re-side in vinyl or fiber cement. New roofs go on with a high-wind nailing pattern and new flashing. You get a written estimate with scope, materials, schedule and payment plan. We come up from our shop in Auburn.
What we see on Fitchburg houses
- Mill-era triple-deckers on steep hillside streets
- Century-old framing with soft sills and sheathing
- Runoff from steep lots hitting foundations
- Tall roofs exposed to wind, snow and ice
