Contractors in Canton, NC
Canton is Haywood County, on the Pigeon River between Asheville and Waynesville, and it has been through more than its share in recent years — the mill closing in 2023 and two major floods in three years before that.
The contractors based here reflect a town that has done a lot of rebuilding. Roofing and metal roofs, grading and excavating, septic, land clearing, demolition, tree and landscaping work, and cleaning and water damage restoration. These are recovery trades, and the crews here have more repetitions in that work than most.
If you’re on the river or one of the creeks feeding it, elevation and drainage are the first questions to ask about any project, not an afterthought once the design is set. Anyone who has worked in this valley through the last few years will raise it before you do — and if they don’t, that tells you something.
Canton companies typically cover Clyde, Waynesville, and out toward west Asheville, so a crew based here is not a long drive for most of Haywood County.
A Better Clean
A Better Clean is a family-owned cleaning company on New Clyde Highway in Canton, working since 2012 and named a Best of Haywood winner. The focus is soft surfaces and hard floors rather than general housekeeping: carpet, area rugs, upholstery, and tile and grout, with pet odor and stain treatment as a specialty. They also do carpet restoration after water damage, including mold removal — the reason the **IICRC certification** matters here rather than being decoration. Environmentally friendly products, licensed, insured, and bonded. Same-day service is often available and walk-ins are accepted. Military discounts offered.
- Residential
- Commercial
- Green Building
Go-Metal
Go-Metal manufactures and sells metal roofing panels from Pigeon Ford Road in Canton. It is a family-owned operation selling factory direct, which is the whole pitch — you are buying from the shop that rolls the panel rather than through a distributor. They supply panels, trim, and accessories. They do not install, so this is a stop for contractors and for homeowners running their own project, not a place to hire a roofing crew. Metal is a common choice on steep mountain roofs and on outbuildings, and the useful part of buying local is that panels get cut to your lengths instead of arriving in stock sizes you then have to work around. Open Monday through Friday, 7:30 to 5:30.
- Residential
- Commercial
Green Roofing
Green Roofing is a family and locally owned roofing company on King Cove Road in Canton, run by Kenneth Green and working Haywood County for more than thirty years. The scope is deliberately narrow and done well: reroofing, new roofs, repairs, seamless gutters, and skylights. They guarantee all work performed. Licensed, bonded, and insured. Phones are answered seven days a week, seven in the morning to nine at night — unusual hours that make more sense once you have had a leak start on a Sunday.
- Residential
- Commercial
Greene Brothers Well & Pump
Greene Brothers has been drilling wells out of Canton since 1945, and the business has stayed in the Greene family for three generations. They cover Canton, Waynesville, and Asheville. Private wells are ordinary here rather than exotic. Anything outside a town's water system is almost certainly on one, which means well and pump work is a normal part of owning property in this part of the county — and a pump failure is an emergency in a way that most home repairs are not. Alongside drilling and pump systems they do geothermal drilling for ground-source heat pumps, plus hand pumps and solar-powered pump systems for sites without reliable power. If you are buying a house on a well, have the water tested and ask when the pump was last replaced. Neither is expensive during due diligence and both are expensive as a surprise.
- Residential
M&S Landscaping and Tree Service
M&S Landscaping and Tree Service is a family-owned company on Dogwood Lane in Canton, working Haywood County and out into Buncombe and Jackson. They handle both sides of the yard: tree removal, trimming, pruning, stump grinding, and storm cleanup, plus landscaping and lawn maintenance. On a property where a removal leaves a torn-up lawn behind, having one crew close it out is worth something. Coverage runs through Canton, Clyde, Waynesville, and Maggie Valley.
- Residential
- Commercial
Pigeon Valley Septic, Grading + Land Clearing Asheville
Exceeding your expectations with our quality workmanship Excavation And Grading – Reclaim your property and turn it into what you envision. Specialty Services – Keep your property maintained with quality land management service. Septic Systems – Reliable septic solutions for all of your septic needs. Let the professionals at Pigeon Valley Septic & Grading Inc. move the Earth for you and clean up all that excess water. Put your trust in the septic tank experts to make sure your system always runs tight so it…read more
RNM Engineers
RNM Engineers — Reece Noland & McElrath — has been doing mechanical, electrical, and plumbing design from Main Street in Canton since 1960. This is commercial and institutional work rather than residential: healthcare, schools, municipal buildings, industrial facilities, and retail. MEP is the discipline that decides how a building is heated, powered, and plumbed, and on a medical or educational project it is usually the longest pole in the design tent. The specialty list is broader than most regional MEP firms carry — arc flash and short circuit studies, commissioning, daylighting, energy analysis, geothermal, LEED, solar, and water conservation. Sixty-five years in Canton is worth noting on its own. Very few engineering firms in Western North Carolina have that kind of continuity in one town.
- Commercial
- Green Building
Shane Willis Construction & Metal Roofs
Shane Willis Construction has been building in Western North Carolina for more than twenty years from Champion Drive in Canton, specializing in metal roofing. The distinguishing detail is that they manufacture the panels as well as install them. Buying the roof and the labor from the same shop usually means shorter lead times and the ability to match a color or profile on a repair years later — the thing that goes wrong when a supplier discontinues a line. Beyond roofs they build pole barns, garages, decks, and patios. Free estimates, and coverage extends through Haywood, Jackson, and Buncombe counties.
- Residential
- Commercial
Worley Grading & Excavating, LLC
Worley Grading & Excavating is a family business on Vista View Drive in Canton, run by brothers Calvin and Martin Worley with their wives Jennifer and Melissa. Between them they carry better than thirty-five years in grading and excavating. There is a Canton story in how it started: both men had worked in the trade before taking jobs at the paper mill, and returned to it afterward. In a town shaped by that mill, that is a familiar arc. Work covers house site grading, driveways, land clearing, retaining walls, hauling, and hydroseeding, plus septic system installation and repair — a useful pairing, since on most rural Haywood County lots the septic design and the grading have to be solved together. Licensed and fully insured, serving Haywood County and Western North Carolina.
- Residential
- Commercial
