Barrett & Sons Construction in Minnesota
Barrett & Sons Construction brings owner-operated construction and remodeling to homeowners across Minnesota, from the Twin Cities exurbs to the rural counties up north. Since 1998, Tom Barrett and his sons have run every job with their name on the truck, their number on the invoice, and a promise that the price you hear is the price you pay. As part of the Locally family, every Barrett & Sons customer in Minnesota gets the same guarantee that started it all: a verified local address, a published license number, and a live person answering the phone, 24 hours a day.
Why Minnesota Homeowners Choose Barrett & Sons Construction
Tom Barrett started this company in 1998, and his sons still run the crews today. That matters in Minnesota, where a winter roof repair or a kitchen remodel during mud season is not the kind of job you hand to strangers dispatched from a call center. When you call Barrett & Sons, you get a live person on the line, and that person can put Tom on the phone. He publishes his name, his address, and his license number because he wants you to look him up before you sign anything. He lives twenty minutes from the communities he serves, and he will be there himself.
The 90-Day Done Right Promise is written on every contract, not tucked into fine print. If something is not done right, one call brings Tom back. No charge for that. Every scope, every allowance, and every price change arrives as a written change order before a single nail moves, because the allowance that is not on paper is a surprise waiting for a date. Barrett & Sons pulls permits and signs inspections on every eligible job, too, something the last contractor most customers used told them was optional.
On materials, Tom does not use mystery brands off a van. His kitchens carry KraftMaid and Cambria. His roofs go up with GAF and CertainTeed. Windows are Andersen and Marvin. Hardscapes are Belgard and Techo-Bloc. These are names you can look up, specs you can compare, and warranties that transfer when you sell the house. The crew members who carry the Barrett & Sons name are background-checked and uniformed on every visit, and they are not subcontractors rotating through a franchise territory. They are the same people Tom trusts in his own community, where he runs into customers again on a Saturday.
Backed by the Locally Family
Locally started in 1997 when a retired county extension agent named Ward Selby got tired of hearing the same story: out-of-state plates, a phone quote that tripled at the door, and a number that stopped working. He wrote down what a homeowner could verify in five minutes, a local phone number, a real address, the owner’s name and face, and a license number you can look up. Any company willing to publish all four could carry his name. That list is still the entire standard.
The L.O.C.A.L. values code means Barrett & Sons has roots in Minnesota counties, not a call center three states away. The window they give you is the window, and they call if it slips. They hire here, buy here, and sponsor the teams here. Tom Barrett answers the phone and puts his name on the work. And he would rather keep you for twenty years than win one big ticket. That is why Locally stands behind Barrett & Sons Construction across Minnesota. The name Locally was chosen for the answer to the only question this customer actually asks, and Tom Barrett answers it every time he picks up his own phone.
Written by Tom Barrett, Owner at Barrett & Sons Construction, serving Minnesota since 1998.