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General Info: Our Services Our remodeling company is technically proficient in all aspects of residential remodeling and light commercial construction. We assist our clients throughout the "design build" process, meaning that we have a solid networking basis of professional technicians and suppliers, and attempt to ease the construction process to the greatest extent possible. Assist clients with post-fire or storm damage insurance related incidents. Time permitting, we offer free inspections and estimating for our more serious, potential clients.
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Phone: (205) 868-6800

Address: 13 Office Park Cir Ste 1, Mountain Brk, AL 35223

Website: http://www.raybuildingcompany.com

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Never has planning, contracting, and job execution been so widely published. The U.S. is reportedly in a qualified labor shortage, and things don't look any brighter for some time. The local phenomena that I am witnessing is ironic at all levels. The building related economy is booming in terms of homeowners wanting to remodel and invest in their homes and the labor hasn't recovered from the last down turn. Many other cultural and socio-economic occurrences have greatly diminished our former multi-generation (father to son) labor intensive construction teams. This was predicted in many economic studies and trade shows in the preceding years and we are slap dab in the middle of it now. I recently attended a national conference and listened to the common theme of qualified labor shortage issues in economic "up turns" from the CEO of Porch.com, Mike Homes, of HGTV, and the Chief Architect of the EPA. To tie all of this together, I will relate a current project that I am trying to pull together behind an errant builder that is shattering the dreams and expectations of the owners and of their confidence in professional contractors and tradesmen, if not physically endangering them for an unsafe site. Two years ago, the mantra of the Remodeling Magazine's Big 50 Conference in DC was, "execute or be executed." This mantra, and how it is affected by the current labor shortage, is directly affected by clear planning, contracting, and finally, in the execution and completion of a healthy remodel project. Modern building science, the International Building Code Conference, local building requirements by inspections departments (police powers for enforcement), and a plethora of other licensing requirements should normally spell things out for homeowners and contractors, but they seemingly don't. The project mentioned above is the 3rd major structural goof up that I have been involved in where significant construction was endeavored upon by either terribly trained carpenters, bad planning, or just plain disregard to established design principles and building codes. We are engaging with a licensed structural engineer and communicating with our local building officials to come up with the best practices procedures to properly resolve the current framing and installation status, but a comment from Jim Dick, of Alpha Lumber Company yesterday really hit home. As a semi-retired Master Carpenter with decades of experience, Jim said the poor quality of workmanship that he saw on site "cut to his soul." One of the unfortunate consequences of the qualified labor rut, or shortage, is that some homeowners fall prey to the less qualified contractors or tradesman, the lure of the lowest price, or the sense of urgency disrupted the deliberate selection, planning, and contracting process. Another element contributing to the breakdown of many remodeling relationships is the absence of legitimate planning documents and substantive contracts. Emergency repairs for leaky roofs or

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