Barrett & Sons Construction in Wisconsin
Barrett & Sons Construction delivers remodeling, roofing, window replacement, and hardscape construction to homeowners across Wisconsin as a Locally-backed, owner-operated crew. Tom Barrett founded the company in 1998, and his sons run the jobsites today. Every Wisconsin customer gets the same deal: Tom’s cell number, his real address, a license you can look up, and the 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing on every contract. As part of the Locally family, Barrett & Sons plays by the rules Ward Selby wrote down in 1997 - no out-of-state call centers, no mystery crews, no price at the door that doesn’t match the price on the phone.
Why Wisconsin Homeowners Choose Barrett & Sons Construction
Tom Barrett puts his name on the truck, his address in the paperwork, and his license where you can verify it before you sign anything. That’s not marketing - it’s the standard Ward Selby started with, and it’s the reason Barrett & Sons carries the Locally name.
The crews are Tom’s sons and the men they’ve trained. Background-checked, uniformed, and carrying the Barrett name on every visit. Tom pulls permits and signs off on inspections for every job that requires them, because the last contractor half of his customers used told them permits were optional. They’re not. Tom knows the inspectors by name in the counties where he works, and he shows up when they do.
Pricing works the way you’d want it to if you’d already been burned once. Tom quotes upfront, writes it down, and if something changes - a rotted subfloor under the tile, a scope shift you request - the new price arrives as a written change order before anybody touches a tool. The allowance that isn’t on paper is a surprise waiting for a date. Tom’s heard that story too many times from Wisconsin homeowners who called him to fix what the last guy left behind.
The materials are brands you can look up, not mystery stock off a van. KraftMaid and Cambria for kitchen work. GAF and CertainTeed on roofs. Andersen and Marvin windows. Belgard and Techo-Bloc for patios and walkways. Tom specs them because he’s going to see you again at the hardware store, and he’d rather answer for quality than explain why something failed.
Calls ring through to a live person, 24 hours a day. Not a voicemail tree, not somebody in Arizona reading a script. If it’s Tom, he’ll tell you when he’ll be there himself. If it’s after hours, somebody who knows the schedule answers, and Tom calls back. Here is my cell, he says. Ask anyone on your street.
The 90-Day Done Right Promise covers every job. Written on the contract, not buried in fine print. If it’s not done right, one call brings Tom back. No charge for that. He lives twenty minutes away from most of his Wisconsin customers, and he’s been in business long enough that keeping you for twenty years matters more than winning one big ticket.
Backed by the Locally Family
Every Barrett & Sons job in Wisconsin carries the Locally guarantee: the owner’s name, a local address you can drive to, and a license number you can look up before you ever pick up the phone. The person who answers is the person who shows up, and the price he says is the price on the invoice. Ward Selby built this standard in 1997 because he was tired of watching neighbors get burned by trucks with out-of-state plates and phone numbers that stopped working. Tom Barrett met that standard in 1998 and still meets it today. When you hire Barrett & Sons, you’re not getting a franchise dispatching strangers. You’re getting a Wisconsin contractor whose name is on the truck, whose sons are on your roof, and who’s going to run into you at the grocery store on Saturday. That’s the oldest accountability mechanism there is, and it’s why Locally stands behind every nail Tom drives.
Written by Tom Barrett, Owner at Barrett & Sons Construction, serving Wisconsin since 1998.