Buckley & Sons Carpentry

Beach stairs are a particular Cape problem — a flight of steps down a bluff that has to survive salt, sand and storms — and they are one of the things Buckley & Sons builds. The Orleans shop works the Outer Cape and says it has since 1985: decks, beach stairs, kitchen remodels and custom carpentry on the peninsula's older and newer houses. It is a family business in the literal sense. Rick Buckley moved to Wellfleet as a carpenter in the early 1980s after college and stayed; two of his sons now work with him full-time, and a third helped out through high school and college. The site puts the company at 40 years in business. The paperwork holds up. Richard Buckley's Massachusetts construction supervisor licence (CS-061145) and home improvement contractor registration (#177174) are both active on the state registry — the construction supervisor licence being the one that matters once a job touches structure, as deck and stair framing does. For deck, stair and custom-carpentry work on the Outer Cape, this is squarely the kind of shop to call. Ask which of the Buckleys will actually run your job and be on site day to day, and get a written scope that spells out materials before the first board goes down.