Hello and thank you for visiting JQ Inspections
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I would like to share some of my career in the construction business.
My first real jobs started in the boat yards working as a rough and finish carpenter. Then a friend of mine offered me a job as a house carpenter building custom homes. Boy was that different from building boats. I began going to apprentice school to become a Journeyman carpenter. During my apprentice program I continued to work as a carpenter on new homes and commercial developement projects.
Much like today, we had a recession that made me look for work in some other trades. Fortunately I got a job offer to work for a major home builder as a customer service representative. Back then you were expected to repair as many items as possible to save money and time. I liked working with my hands and helping home owners. I learned a lot about people and how they responded to prompt service in their homes.
When the opportunity came to transition into the construction end of new homes I started out as an assistant superintendent and after 3 years I was promoted to a full superintendent. I was responsible for overseeing the construction of new homes, and I used my experience in New Home customer service to help build a Home that our home buyers would be happy they purchased from our company.
My goal was not to have so many items in need of repairs during their warranty period and hopefully for years to come.
During my career I was fortunate to have only worked for a handful of major home building contractors. In this industry that is a big plus.
The last home builder that I was working for, prior to my becoming a home inspector, had a company meeting with all the departments in the company discussing many topics.
One particular discussion I was very proud of was the comments about the many projects that I had supervised from start to finish. I was asked in front of the entire company how it was that my new home construction projects had the least requests for customer service repairs throughout the years I had worked for this home builder. All eyes were on me waiting for my response. Caught off guard my answer was obvious to me. Make sure you check every step of constuction in all phases thouroughly before continuing to the next stage of construction.
Build the home as if it was for my own family. Make the sub contractors responsable to do the jobs that they are paid to do.
That was a very proud moment for me. I have achieved many possitive goals throughout my carreer including customer care and new home construction.
This is the attitude I still have when inspecting homes for clients trying to make an important decision when purchasing a home.
