The guy behind the quotes.
T. Darby Contracting is one person — Thomas Darby, licensed PA home-improvement contractor based in Lock Haven. Here's exactly what you're hiring.
The person who measures your job, writes your quote, and swings the hammer is the same person. That's not a staffing limitation I apologize for — it's the reason the quote matches the work. I'm registered with the Pennsylvania Attorney General as a Home Improvement Contractor (HIC #PA2199962), I carry insurance, and I hold EPA 608 Universal certification for refrigerant work on any equipment type.
How I work is simple. I look at the job before I price it. You get a written quote within 48 hours — a scope you can hold me to, not a phone number that grows. No deposit until you say go. And my workmanship carries a one-year warranty: if something I built fails because of how I built it, I come back.
The other half of my working life is software — I build web apps and data tools for small organizations at software.tdarby.com. It shows up in the contracting work in one specific way: documentation. Line-item estimates, itemized insurance scopes, photos of what was behind the drywall. Paper trails are a habit I can't turn off.
Off the clock, I build beds with the local Sleep in Heavenly Peace chapter — there's a case study of the volunteer builds in the portfolio — and serve with several Clinton County community organizations. The long version of that story lives at personal.tdarby.com.
- LicensePA HIC #PA2199962
- CertificationEPA 608 Universal #iH2GcHFZhv
- CoverageLicensed & insured
- BaseLock Haven, PA 17745
- QuotesWritten, within 48 hours
- Warranty1-year workmanship
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