Steel is an under utilized building material in residential construction, and when you're opening old homes up, steel can be worth its weight.

If you're a local, you might have heard a song about a house that was built on sand. Here's a hint: the house doesn't do well. I ran into one of those today. The garage had some issues. The foundation had a number of cracks and the garage walls and ceilings showed separation and shear stresses. Here's what I told the client

Structural piers can solve problems when it's the right situation. When they become spears, that's a big structural problem

Sometimes homes on hills can be saved, and sometimes not. This one was good news.

So the client wants to finish the basement. They want to add a 5 foot window and move a sliding door

Old house? Need a garage door opener? Beware what you cut when you install the opener

What happens when you enter the court room? For starters, the rules change. It's not about if it's broken.

Today I also did prep work as legal support for a deck related lawsuit. I love doing this

So now project homes start for 900k. Awesome

1978 was great. That's what they said at graduation, but for construction it really wasn't so awesome. This inspection had a collapsed roof that nearly killed a number of workers