Contractors in Waynesville, NC

J Creek Electric LLC

J Creek Electric is your local residential service professional serving the Town of Waynesville and surrounding areas. We provide electrical service upgrades, home standby generators, portable generator connections, hot tub connections, EV charger installation, electrical renovation work, electrical repairs, and more! Whether you need to diagnose a faulty outlet or a complete home rewire, we've got you covered. Our licensed professionals will handle your project with the care and expertise you deserve.

• Residential

Spire Home Inspection

Spire Home Inspection is based in Waynesville and inspects homes across Western North Carolina. Owner Skip Tucker performs the home inspection, radon testing, and water sampling and testing himself. He also coordinates a wood destroying insect report (WDIR) when one is requested, with the inspection and report handled by the appropriate pest professional. That matters when you're on a due diligence clock, because you ask one person for the whole package instead of tracking down each piece yourself. Water testing is worth asking about any time the house is on a well. Private wells are common throughout the area, though there are public and community water systems outside town limits too, so it's worth knowing which one you're buying into. Radon comes up often enough in this part of the state that it's a fair question on almost any inspection here.

Clark & Leatherwood, Inc.

Clark & Leatherwood is a commercial construction firm on Industrial Park Drive in Waynesville, working Western North Carolina, Upstate South Carolina, and East Tennessee. The service list is structured around how a project is delivered rather than what type of building it is: preconstruction consulting, program and project management, construction management, design-build, and general construction. That is the vocabulary of a firm used to institutional and municipal owners who need the delivery method decided before the drawings exist. This is not a residential builder. If you are an owner, a developer, or a nonprofit with a building to put up, they are the right kind of call.

• Commercial

Distinctive Building and Design, Inc.

Distinctive Building and Design has been building custom homes in Western North Carolina since 1991. Tom Hines founded the company and still runs it, which is worth noting in a trade where thirty-plus years usually means the name outlived the person attached to it. The firm handles planning, construction, and interior design under one roof, and its portfolio includes work in Waynesville, Maggie Valley, and Asheville. A builder who does the architectural planning in-house is a different proposition from one who bids on someone else's drawings. It tends to suit people who know roughly what they want but have not yet had it drawn — and on the steep, awkward lots common around here, that early conversation is where the budget is actually set.

• Residential

Farmer Electric

Farmer Electric is an owner-operated residential shop on Riddle Drive in Waynesville, covering Haywood County and Western North Carolina. Kenneth Farmer runs every job in house rather than handing it to subcontractors, and says he's wired more than 200 mountain homes in eight years. Panel and service upgrades are the bread and butter — 100 amp to 200 amp, usually inside a day, with permits and inspection coordination included. Generators, EV chargers, lighting, and whole-house wiring on new builds round it out. Licensed and carrying $1 million in liability coverage. For a residential job, ask whoever you hire to confirm both, and to say plainly who is pulling the permit.

• Residential

Golden Rule Cleaning Co.

Golden Rule Cleaning is a residential cleaning company on South Main Street in Waynesville. The offering is straightforward — recurring house cleaning and deep cleans, built around a schedule that fits the household rather than a fixed package. For a service most people buy on trust and keep for years, the thing worth asking about up front is whether you get the same cleaner each visit. Coverage is centered on Waynesville and Haywood County.

• Residential

Haynes Tree & Excavation

Haynes Tree & Excavation is a family-owned business rooted in Waynesville, covering Waynesville, Clyde, Maggie Valley, and Canton. The unusual part is the combination. Most outfits do trees or dirt, not both, and around here those two jobs keep running into each other — a removal on a slope leaves ruts and a stump hole, and land clearing is half tree work before an excavator ever matters. One insured crew closing out both sides saves a second mobilization. They run 24/7 emergency tree service, which is the number worth having saved before a storm rather than during one. Drainage work too, which in this terrain is usually the real fix when a yard won't dry out.

• Residential
• Commercial

Haywood Builders Supply

Haywood Builders Supply has been on Charles Street in Waynesville since 1948 — a full-line building supply house serving professional builders and homeowners alike. The useful distinction from a big-box store is the counter. A supply house that sells mostly to builders keeps people who can read a plan, take off a material list, and tell you the framing member you asked for is not the one you need. That is worth the trip if you are running your own project. Employees participate in an ownership program, and the company operates as part of the SBSI group. Open Monday through Friday, 7:30 to 4:30, closed weekends — which is a builder's schedule, not a weekend-warrior schedule. Plan accordingly.

• Residential
• Commercial

Haywood Heating & Air Conditioning

Haywood Heating & Air Conditioning is on Asheville Road in Waynesville and serves Haywood County and the communities around it. Heating, cooling, indoor air quality, thermostats and zoning, and commercial HVAC support, with their own sheet metal fabrication in house. That last part matters more than it sounds: ductwork in older mountain houses rarely matches anything off a shelf, and a shop that can fabricate a transition on site keeps a replacement from stalling for a week. They carry Carrier equipment and offer financing and service agreements. Preventive maintenance is their steady drumbeat, and in a county where a heat pump works hard on both ends of the year, that's a reasonable thing to be sold on.

• Residential
• Commercial

Howell Tree Removal

Howell Tree Removal works out of Waynesville and has been doing tree work across Western North Carolina for more than eleven years, residential and commercial both. Removal, pruning, stump grinding, and storm debris cleanup, plus landscaping — which is a useful pairing, since a removal usually leaves a hole and a torn-up section of yard that somebody has to put back. Storm cleanup is the one to think about ahead of time. After a wind event the whole county calls the same handful of crews on the same morning, and the people who get seen first are generally the ones who already had a number in their phone.

• Residential
• Commercial

LUXE Kitchen & Bath Design

Luxe runs a showroom on South Main Street in downtown Waynesville and works from there across Haywood County and into Asheville. They started as cabinet dealers and grew into full design and build, which shows in how the work is scoped: kitchens and baths come with 3D cabinet layouts before anything is torn out, and the same team carries a project from design approval through installation. Countertops, hardware, and finishes are selected in the showroom rather than off a sample emailed to you. The larger end of what they do is custom home building and land development — taking raw acreage through planning to a build-ready site. Two local owners founded the company with 25 years of combined experience in the building trades here. Worth knowing: the showroom is the reason to start here rather than over the phone. Walking a wall of door styles and stone slabs settles decisions that otherwise drag a remodel out by weeks.

• Residential

Metzger Electric

Metzger Electric is a small family business based out of Waynesville, working Haywood County and the surrounding area. Owner Kraig Metzger holds an Unlimited Classification NC electrical contractor's license, which is the tier that lets a shop take on jobs with no dollar ceiling — commercial work and full new construction, not just service calls. His wife Hunter runs the office. The work covers new construction and remodel wiring, commercial jobs, generators, EV chargers, hot tub and sauna circuits, outdoor lighting, and 24-hour troubleshooting. If you're adding a generator or a charger, ask about the panel first — on a lot of houses in this county the service size, not the device, is what decides the price.

• Residential
• Commercial

Parkway Heating and Air

Parkway Heating and Air is based in Waynesville and works Haywood County. The service list runs the full length of residential HVAC: air conditioning install, repair and tune-ups, heat pumps, furnaces, mini-splits, ductwork, and emergency repair when something quits on a cold night. They also do the air quality side — filtration, purifiers, humidifiers and dehumidifiers. The mini-split work is worth knowing about locally. A lot of mountain houses here were built without ducts, or with an addition that never got tied into the original system, and a ductless head is usually cheaper than running trunk line through a crawlspace that was never meant to carry it.

• Residential

Stone River Builders

Stone River Builders builds custom homes out of Waynesville and describes itself as locals who live where they build. Alongside new construction they take additions, interior and exterior renovations, and energy efficiency work. They also do their own excavation, which is less common than it sounds — on a sloped site, a builder who controls the grading and the foundation schedule is not waiting on a subcontractor to free up a machine. You work directly with the builder rather than through a project manager. On a custom job that mostly determines how fast decisions get made when something on site turns out differently than the plan assumed.

• Residential
• Green Building

The Blind Guide

The Blind Guide sells and installs custom window treatments, working Asheville, Candler, and the surrounding Western North Carolina area from Waynesville. The company has been independent since 2014 and also runs an operation north of Atlanta. The product range covers blinds, shades, plantation shutters, cellular shades, and window tint. Cellular shades are the ones worth asking about in an older house — they are the treatment that actually does something measurable for heat loss on single-pane windows, which a lot of housing stock here still has. They measure and install rather than selling you a box to hang yourself. On anything but a standard rectangular opening, that is the part that determines whether the finished job looks custom or looks close.

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The Superior Finish, Inc.

The Superior Finish has been on Broadview Road in Waynesville since 1986. Despite a name that sounds like a painting company, the business is custom window treatments and upholstery. They cover blinds, shutters, draperies, motorized awnings, and exterior shades, and they keep an in-house team of craftspeople and installers rather than subcontracting the fabrication. Upholstery is a real part of the business, which is increasingly hard to find — reupholstering a good frame usually beats replacing it, and there are fewer shops every year that will take the work. They work with local designers and builders as well as directly with homeowners, and they are open Saturday mornings, which most trade showrooms are not.

• Residential

Timberland Fence LLC

Timberland Fence is a family-owned fence company in Waynesville working across Haywood County. Custom gates are the specialty, both manual and automatic, alongside fence installation for residential and commercial customers. If the gate is the part of the project you care most about, this is a shop that treats it as the main job rather than an add-on. BBB accredited with an A+ rating.

• Residential
• Commercial

Villazon Plumbing, Inc

Villazon Plumbing has been working out of Waynesville since 1998, family owned the whole way, and covers Waynesville and the surrounding communities. They do both sides of the trade: repair calls and the planned work. Water heaters, tankless conversions, drain stoppages, gas piping, sewer and water line replacement, plus new construction and remodel rough-ins. Free estimates. Water line replacement is the one worth flagging in this county. A lot of the older places out toward Lake Junaluska are still on galvanized supply lines, and the symptom people notice first is pressure, not a leak.

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• Commercial

Warmstead

Warmstead works on chimneys and fireplaces from Dellwood Road in Waynesville, covering Asheville, Canton, Candler, and the rest of Buncombe and Haywood counties. The company opened under its own name in 2017 and previously traded as WNC Chimney Solutions. The service list runs the full range rather than sweeping alone: inspections, relining, leak repair, cap and crown work, and masonry repair, plus installation and service for wood, gas, and electric fireplaces. Gas appliance service is worth knowing about, because a lot of chimney companies only handle solid fuel and a gas insert that won't light needs someone different. They also clean dryer vents. That is a genuinely useful pairing — it is the same access problem and the same lint-and-creosote logic, and most homeowners never think about the dryer run until it stops drying in one cycle. If you burn regularly, book the inspection before the first cold snap. Fall is when every chimney company in the region is booked solid.

• Residential

Waterrock Construction

Waterrock Construction works both sides of the trade from Waynesville: custom homes on the residential side, general contracting on the commercial side, across Western North Carolina. Founder Patrick has been in construction since 2010. The company holds an NC Unlimited Building License (107020) and is licensed in Tennessee as well, so the ceiling on project size is set by the schedule rather than by the license. They will run a job as design-build or design-bid-build, and offer construction management and consulting as separate engagements. That last one is useful if you already have a builder and want someone independent reading the contract and the draw schedule.

• Residential
• Commercial