About Me:
I became interested in carpentry at a very young age. When I was five years old my grandfather built bird houses with me in his garage. To keep me occupied my parents would give me a box of nails and a hammer and let me loose on the firewood pile. When I was 12 years old my father had a tenant who operated a wood working shop in the front half of our family-owned auto body shop in Bristol, PA. I would hang out in their shop endlessly and they would let me work on projects of my own while teaching me the proper methods. At that point I knew that I did not want to work in the family business for the rest of my life. When entering junior high I enrolled in Technical School where I attended for one half year until we moved to Waretown, New Jersey.
I attended Southern Regional and worked after school and on Saturdays, doing handyman work on Long Beach Island for my father and uncle. After graduation I got a job working for a builder where I met Albert Morrison he was a subcontractor on the job who specialized in framing, wood siding and masonry work. I liked that he treated his workers as equals and was very conscientious about quality. Working for Al, I was exposed to a variety of projects such as framing new homes with difficult roof systems, building a pump house for irrigation on a blueberry farm, building a screen porch on a log home and restoring the historic Buzby's General Store in Chatsworth, NJ.
I started my business in April, 1998. My first job was painting the interior of an insurance office. For a while I subcontracted from a developer installing kitchens and building decks. I also worked as a handyman for some real estate offices on LBI. Tom Cook, a retired builder who took me under his wing, taught me about proposals, bids, and contracts. He introduced me to Jay Madden the Architect in 2000.
I bid my first renovation/addition thru Jay and was awarded the job. John and Judith Rowell soon became a great referral and their house became a show piece of what I was capable of doing. Work gradually developed from repairs to additions, renovations to custom homes. It was not an overnight success. My father, Roger, came to work for me in 2002 to build the first custom home and we have been working together ever since. He has always been a major influence on my work and business ethics.
This is the compressed version of my working history. I do not want to lose you to boredom. If you are still interested in me doing your work, contact me.
Jeff