Barrett & Sons Construction in Mississippi
Barrett & Sons Construction brings owner-operated building and remodeling to Mississippi homeowners who are done guessing which contractor will actually show up. Founded in 1998 by Tom Barrett, this is a name-on-the-truck company where his sons run the crews, permits get pulled on every eligible job, and every price change lands in writing before a single nail moves. As part of the Locally family, Barrett & Sons carries the same promise that has guided Mississippi home services since 1997: the owner’s name, his local address, and his license number are published for anyone to verify before they ever pick up the phone. Across Mississippi, that means construction work backed by a 90-Day Done Right Promise and a family that answers its own calls.
Why Mississippi Homeowners Choose Barrett & Sons Construction
Tom Barrett started this company in 1998, and he has kept it owner-operated for over 29 years for one reason: he got tired of watching neighbors get quoted one price on the phone and handed another bill at the door. His sons are on-site most days running the crews, not some franchise dispatching strangers with a magnet on a rental van. When you call Barrett & Sons, you get a live person 24 hours a day, and that person can put Tom on the line because he is twenty minutes away, not three states over in a call center.
The 90-Day Done Right Promise is written on every contract, not buried in fine print where you need a lawyer to find it. If something is not done right, Tom comes back and makes it right. One call. No charge for that. He publishes his name, his address, and his license number so you can look him up before you sign anything, because the last contractor most Mississippi homeowners used told them permits were optional. They are not, and Barrett & Sons pulls them and gets inspections signed on every job that requires them.
Every scope, every allowance, and every price change arrives as a written change order before work happens. The allowance that is not on paper is a surprise waiting for a date, and Tom does not do surprises. His crews wear the Barrett & Sons name, have passed background checks, and show up uniformed on every visit. And when it comes to materials, he specs brands you can look up yourself: KraftMaid and Cambria in kitchens, GAF and CertainTeed on roofs, Andersen and Marvin on windows, Belgard and Techo-Bloc on hardscapes. No mystery brands off a van, no house labels you cannot research. You are paying for work you can verify, and Tom expects you to.
This is the contractor you will see again at the hardware store on a Saturday. That is the oldest accountability mechanism there is, and it still works.
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, phone quotes that tripled at the door, and numbers that stopped working the minute something went wrong. He wrote down what a homeowner could verify in five minutes: a local phone number a person answers, an address you can drive to, 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.
Barrett & Sons Construction meets that standard on every Mississippi job. The L.O.C.A.L. values code still applies: Local roots, On time, Community first, Accountable, Loyal. Tom Barrett would rather keep you for twenty years than win one big ticket. That is why Locally stands behind him. Ask anyone on your street.
Written by the team at Barrett & Sons Construction, serving Mississippi homeowners since 1998 as part of the Locally family.