tosch builders

What we do…

Tosch Builders is a full-service, building and remodeling company and a frame-to-finish carpentry subcontractor based in Pelham, Massachusetts. We are a licensed general contractor. We take pride in our craftsmanship, and we prioritize honesty and clarity when we communicate with our clients.

who we are…

Our core personnel have backgrounds in the arts and communication, and we genuinely love being carpenters. We get excited when we learn a new technique or refine an old one. A friend said that we’re all addicted to wood. We enjoy our customers and enjoy one another on the job site. We’re dedicated professionals who love the challenges of the work.

I have to say that this bathroom was a mess. A sagging floor with rotting joists, rotting walls around the tub, and tiles falling off. We had the difficult task of framing a new floor and new walls around the tub, two of which are exterior walls, wit

Finished this kitchen today. Check out the before and after pictures! And stay tuned. Tomorrow we finish the bathroom we’ve been remodeling!

Good start to a small bathroom renovation. The tiles around the tub had been glued directly to the gypsum board without any waterproofing membrane of any kind. Consequently, the studs along the wall rotted because they regularly got wet but could nev

Phase 1 of a kitchen remodel subcontract complete. We took up 2 layers of linoleum, scraped the mastic off the original floor, and patched in new, heart pine floor boards. The floor refinisher is in there today. Cannot wait to see what the place look

A handful of interruptions later, we blew the snow off this morning and finished the standing seam roof this afternoon. Looking picturesque at the home stretch, I think.

Repairs to a gable wall in Heath for a friend. What had probably been a hay loft door turned into a window, and then that window leaked and caused the plate beam below it to rot. We hogged out the unhealthy wood, put healthy wood back in its place, r

In many ways, this project is a lot like the post and beam home we framed last year, and so we’ve had the chance here, with this addition, to apply what we learned. Today, we were able to install more 2X8 tongue and groove roof sheathing with a

Built in 1985, a faithful copy of the Jethro Coffin house, built on Nantucket in 1686, this house is forever changed. A design-build project for us, this front porch addition was designed with future flexibility in mind. An insulated slab on grade fo

Now that Nevin is gone, we’re back to two. We’ve always said, why hire a crew of five when you can hire two Libras?

Good start to a post and beam design-build that has been in the works since April. Franklin County Rough Cut supplied the gorgeous, free of heart timber. Precision demo supplied by the Tao of Demo guru, @oval_in_window.

The sawyer, Nate, sent me a few pictures of timber we’ll use for our next project. I’m salivating.

It was Nevin’s last day today. He crushed it as usual. I gave him a trim router and some scraps of cedar 2x4 and told him to design, build, and install 1 graspable handrail to finish this deck, which of course he did perfectly.

Next week, Gordon and Nevin return from their vacations, and they’ll be back just in time to trim out this deck. Many thanks to Casey Parsons for his help setting beams and running joists.

The GC will take it from here. His guys will come through. The other subs will come through. And then, if all goes to plan, we will come back next year to do interior finish carpentry. This was a fun, heavy, and sometimes weird build, and I’m p

Trim the upper roof before lunch. Hump 25 sheets onto the lower roof after lunch. All in a day’s work.

Another short, hot, south-facing job. Framing, trim, and siding repairs to a high bay window. Add challenging angles, challenging site access, and challenging hornets to challenging heat, and somehow you’ll still come up with a job well done wh

Big city of Northampton for some old fashioned front porch rebuilding (and a bit of my drive back up to Pelham).

Nice geometries, and it’s then back to work.

what it’s like to have us around

Some construction projects are short, and we have precious little time to create a rapport with our customers. Other projects take much longer to complete. Whatever the project, we understand that our customer’s experience matters a lot. We work in and around your home, and we want to be the kind of company you enjoy having over. Maintaining levity and good humor on the job site is what we do.

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