Modern Monticello

Sovereignty, Installed On Your Own Property

Hire Zach to build it on your property.

Serving the coal fields and Chemical Valley.

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What MM Local Is

Modern Monticello started as build guides and a parts library — MM Local is where that becomes hands-on work on your actual property. This isn't a franchise or a crew dispatch; it's Zach, in Charleston, WV, building the same Ogopogo modules, off-grid appliances, and wall/roof systems documented on this site, sized to your land and your budget. If it's in the MM catalog, it can go in your yard.

How It Works

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Property Walk

Zach comes out and walks the property with you — grade, sun, water, what you're already working with, what you actually want. No sales pitch, just an honest read on what's possible and what it'd take.

Step 2 of 3

Get Your Plan

There's no fixed package. Zach looks at what's actually going on with your specific property — your land, your budget, what you already have — and tells you what's realistic, pulling from anything in the MM catalog.

Step 3 of 3

We Get It Done

Materials, timeline, and a straight-up quote before anything starts. Build happens on your schedule, and you get the same documentation and build rationale that's on this site — you'll actually understand what's under your own deck.

Services

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Commissioned & Custom Builds

Beyond the standard service list — a gabion wall built as a design feature instead of just a retaining wall, solar roof coating, hobbit-style ferrocement, a living trellis of cold-hardy kiwi grown right into a new fence line, and more. Nobody else in Kanawha County is offering this kind of work. If you want something nobody else has, bring it up on the property walk.

Gabion walls as a design feature, not just retainingSolar roof coatingHobbit-style ferrocement buildsLiving kiwi trellis fence linesCustom statement pieces — cedar wood-fired hot tubs, Einstein fridge installs

Who This Is For

The Hands-On Owner

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You want to do things yourself, but can't find the time or the extra hands.

You don't want the project taken over — you want it started right so you can own the upkeep from there, or a pro standing next to you as an extra set of hands on your own build.

The No-DIY-Ambition Owner

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You just want your home improved — no DIY ambitions attached.

You still deserve better than "call us, we fix it, goodbye." Done right, explained, with the option to actually upgrade how your property works if you want more than a repair.

The Something-Nobody-Else-Has Owner

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A cedar wood-fired hot tub, custom-built for probably less than a boxed one.

A working Einstein fridge. A root cellar dug and stocked so your vegetables actually make it through winter. A wooded, overgrown backyard turned into a food forest that feeds your family. This is the stuff people call their friends over to see.

Coming soon

Fire Tower Network

Coming soon

A mesh-networking initiative for off-grid communities — building the list of neighbors and property owners willing to host a node or point-to-point link before the technical build starts.

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A Fire Tower is an individual, personal build (yours, on your own land) — not an institutional or forestry-coordinated system, and it doesn't need anyone's permission to put one up.

The terrain-mapping and builder-matching tooling for this is still on the drawing board — see Coming Soon below. For now, this is about making contact.

Community Building

Coming soon

The sweat-equity and apprenticeship side of MM Local — trading labor and skill directly with other builders in the area, rather than hiring everything out.

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If you'd rather learn a system hands-on alongside the people already running it than pay for a finished job, this is that door.

A small group of local trade partners is already in the network. Reach out through Contact Us below if you'd like to join in.

Also on the drawing board

Still on the drawing board — not bookable yet, but here's what's next for MM Local.

Fire Tower Network installs (mesh networking + LOS terrain mapping)Builder matching with other MM community members in your areaTrader-integrated material sourcing (buy reclaimed brass, dies, and build materials locally through the Trader exchange)Cooperative / group builds (the Compact) for multi-property projects

Partner with MM

Have something to offer your community, or want to build something together?

partnerships@modernmonticellobuild.com

Service Area

Serving the coal fields and Chemical Valley

Kanawha · Putnam · Boone · Clay · Roane · Jackson · Fayette · Lincoln · Logan

Home base is Kanawha County. Neighboring counties are generally in range for a property walk — if you're further out, ask anyway; it depends on the scope of the build.

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Tell Zach a little about your property and what you have in mind. He reads every one of these himself.