About Bartlett Brainard
Awards and Recognition
Best of West Hartford
West Hartford residents vote for their favorite local businesses, restaurants, and nonprofits across multiple categories each year.
Bartlett Brainard has been honored to have made the list consecutively since xxxx.
CT Better Business Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics
This prestigious award is based on the following criteria:
- high ethical standards of behavior
- demonstrated ethical buyer/seller relationships
- the longstanding history of the ethical practices in the marketplace
- business practices that reflect a true representation of what is being offered
- acknowledgment of ethical marketplace practices by industry peers ad the community
- ethical policies that are effectively communicated to employees
- ethical policies that are designed to give long term value to customers
- training policies that assist employees in carrying out ethics policies.
We have been awarded the Torch Award twice!
Our Story
Our History
It was more than 80 years ago when Emile Yandow was one of the first carpenters with the new Bartlett Brainard Products in Hartford, CT. Later, his son Edward worked his way up in the business, ultimately purchasing it in 1981.
Edward’s daughter, Cathy Davis, worked in the business for decades, ultimately becoming the owner in 2001. In 2026 Cathy retired and sold the business to Scott Miller.
The company’s philosophy of providing the best possible workmanship and guaranteeing all of Bartlett Brainard Products’ work has endured all these years!