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Category: Residential Construction
What Does it Take to be a Smart Business Owner?
Being a smart business owner, no matter the type of business is about experience and doing right by your customers. After so many years of working with the same types of problems, you start to evolve your style, approach and really begin to start thinking outside of the box. Caring for Your Customers An important part of being a smart and experienced business owner, especially in an industry when people whose lives and families depend on your work, is realizing that it is not about the money, its about doing what is right. Everyone needs money, and of course, that is what drives a business, but an experienced business owner knows that if you do right by the customer and you consistently provide what you promise and prove yourself to them, the money will follow. Having a Passion for What You Do The key is that you have to really care about what it is that you do and show your customers that it is your passion. In our case, at Bishop Construction, we deal with fixing peoples homes,
Solving Foundation Puzzles
Too often in the construction industry, customers are faced with the task of trying to find the right company to get the job done right, on time, and for a reasonable price. With Bishop Construction, you dont have to keep searching. As we have said before, it is because of our knowledge and experience that we are able to keep our prices low and take almost any job that is thrown our way. We genuinely enjoy helping people and solving problems. We always look at each project like a puzzle and dont stop until it has been solved in the way that makes the most sense. Fixing a Foundation That No One Else Could This client, like many others, came to usbecause they had a large company that was supposed to try to rebuild their house and the owners of that company were stumped. The did not know exactly how to rebuild the first floor of the house. So, they quoted the customer an astronomical amount. Halfway through the project, she was getting ready to go bankrupt, but then she decided to
Foundation Repairs on Large Older Homes
If you live in Northeast Ohio, you have probably been through Lakewood, OH at one time or another. Youve seen how huge most of these homes are; whether they are duplexes or single-family home, theyre all very large. Not only are these homes large, but theyre old too, many of them built in the 20s or 30s. A Common Foundation Issue in Lakewood Style Homes With older homes of this size, we have seen a lot of issues with foundation support causing the footers to sink into the ground. The reason this has been happening is because these types of houses were built with undersized footers. Although they have big block walls with big footers all the way around the perimeter with a beam to the center of the house, they still only used two inches of concrete for the center footers as shown in the photo below. This causes the whole house to sink into the middle. So, we fix it by going under the house and putting oversized footers in underneath this center beam to re-support the beam, lift it
How Bishop Saves You Money on Your Structural Foundation Repair
At Bishop Construction, one of our many specializations is foundation repair. Not only do we have the skills and the experience to repair a foundation but it is because of our extensive knowledge of foundations that allows us to save our customers a lot of money! Moreover, we make sure every project is done right by the book so that we leave our customers with a safer and more valuable building. An Example of a House on the Brink of Collapse This specific foundation repair was actually more of a structural repair. The houses entire first floor was rotting out from underneath. Many other construction companies did not know how to repair the foundation, or they didnt want to because they believed that the house was going to collapse. So, some of them quoted this owner way more than necessary, and others chalked it up as a lost cause. Our Experience and Expertise Saves You Money However, we knew how to support the house while we rebuilt the floor. We lifted the house up where we needed
Knocking Down the Walls Between You and the Home of Your Dreams
In our last blog, we talked about how taking out a wall or two in an office can really change the way the room feels. Likewise, more recently people have been caught up in the modern style craze. Everyone wants a house that has a nice open floor plan. However, most homes that are even a few years old were built to be very compartmentalized, where each room is its own space. Just because your house was made that way, it does not mean it has to stay that way. Bishop Construction can help you break those barriers and give you the spacious house of your dreams! It Starts with You We will get a call from a customer who wants to open up their home by taking down a few walls. More often than not, they will have something in mind as to which one they want to go and how they want it to look. So, we then go take a look at their house to see what we are working with. After assessing the structure of their home, if we can do exactly what they envisioned, we will. However, that is not always
Setting a Realistic Budget for Residential Construction Projects
Bishop Construction LLLC has partnered with Virteom to engage our customers and users about our construction processes and services. In our video series, Jacqui and Dan talk about some tips to keeping a realistic budget for residential construction projects. This video is all about helping you keep a realistic budget for your construction project. Watch or read the transcription below! Today were going to talk about setting a realistic budget for your residential construction project. Whether its for your home maybe in an inside or outside whatever when youre getting ready to figure out your budget or youre getting your quotes, these tips will be very useful to you. What should you consider when budgeting a residential construction project as a homeowner? The Cost of the Contractor The cost of a contractor is an important factor when trying to stay on budget forresidential construction projects. Typically, when homeowners get the final quote from their contractor theyre nice, understanding,
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