New member from Whatcom County, Washington.

[Samantha Johnson]

Hey everyone,  my husband and I run our General Contracting business in and around Bellingham Washington. I'm now holding down the fort with our newest addition who is only 4 months old but had been working along side my guy for 2 summers up until I was 5 months pregnant. 

We started our business in the fall of 2012 as more of ahandyman business but soon found that with all the larger repairs he was getting into that switching to a General contractor would be ideal,  especially with the hopes of building new homes in the future. 

My husband grew up working along side his dad who was also in construction starting from an early age. His dad was a GC for 30 years after working as a Journeyman in the San Diego area in his younger years. 

Not long after we married 9 years ago,  my husband joined the carpenters union as a Journeyman and worked in heavy industrial construction on very big projects for about 6 years. His experience in construction as a whole covers pretty much all bases.  

He currently finds himself working on fixing major rot issues in our area due to other GC's not following the correct building protocols to prevent water damage (and apparently home inspectors are taking money and not catching a damn thing). 

He's worked on many seemingly high end homes that were built by hacks and the home owners have suffered huge losses in the process. I've seen with my own eyes a 7 year old home (estimated value around 700k) with a structural beam that was so rotten it would crumble like dirt in some places. 

In light of this, he is tired of fixing other's horribly made homes and wants to offer our area quality homes that will not be rotten 10 years down the road. And currently we are renting and want to build our own home because all the houses around here have so many issues it's not even funny!