Wells Custom Framers

Wells Custom Framers has built its Berkshire County reputation on framing houses through New England's toughest conditions. A five-star Google review from July 2026 describes founder Tim Wells framing a home in Otis during what the customer called 'a brutal winter,' staying available for questions throughout and working directly with the truss manufacturer to carve out usable second-floor storage space — the kind of on-the-fly problem-solving a framing job often demands. Based in Dalton, MA, the company says it was started by Wells, a 1990 UMass Amherst business graduate, and has run for over two decades doing commercial and residential wood framing, plus window installation and siding, across Western and Central Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Hampshire. Its Massachusetts Home Improvement Contractor registration (#152304) is active and verified against the state registry; the same license number appears on BuildZoom's own listing, where the company also shows 17 permitted projects and a score in the top 10% of Massachusetts contractors. Worth asking about before booking: OSHA cited the company's work at a Sheffield, MA site with 4 violations and $2,800 in proposed penalties, according to a third-party enforcement-record site. And with only one customer review on file so far, there isn't yet a deep independent track record to weigh against that citation. For a framing-heavy new build, addition, or window and siding job in the Berkshires or nearby Connecticut, Wells looks like a credentialed, founder-run operation with a verified license. Raise the OSHA citations directly and ask for a couple of recent references before signing on.