02/02/2020
Greetings folks, I have been seeing some activity here and wanted to post some announcement type info to just be on the up and up with everyone. A few years back we noticed we had to radically lower our own prices to keep getting jobs as materials costs were going up and much of the budget was going to the new fixtures and materials.
As work slowed down, I began to go back to college to complete a degree, and the following year my wife began teaching at NECC in their plumbing department. Since then she has started here work at NECC on an associates degree. We have ventured into raising heritage hogs for direct market sales, and beginning to manage our new acreage on the Henkel family farmstead.
We are currently unavailable for taking on remodel work during the school semester as study and homework assignments come first, followed by my part time position running sound at the District downtown Norfolk Thursday nights through Saturday. With daily farm chores, school work load, and night work running a soundstage, we do not have the time or energy to devote to remodeling projects while school is in session.
Some projects can and will be workable during our summer months, but as we complete our degrees and move into teaching positions full time, and as I continue on to my Masters degree, we will need to completely stop doing any remodeling work.
We appreciate the requests for our services, and are saddened that there is a lack of high quality remodelers available to take up the slack of our absence, but we are also committed to transitioning out of remodel work and into new careers, and as that happens the remodeling will need to simply stop.
If you are a current client waiting for a bid or proposal, I apologize for our slow response, but between the two of us we are preparing for 5 term papers, studying for exams and reading volumes of material for class work, doing farm chores raising and feeding a group of sows and a boar as well as a group of 12 feeder hogs which will be ready for processing in spring about the time the sows start another farrowing session and we will have new pigs to fatten up over the summer. I am busy with two bands, recording projects, and running sound on a soundstage at the District three nights a week. There are many days I don't get anything completely finished on my own list of to-do's.
On top of all of that, we are almost finished with our new house construction, which we have done entirely ourselves with a few other trades involved, without a loan or a bank mortgage. So I am trying to catch up on proposals and job bids, but honestly, they are quickly becoming the last thing on my mind, and I say that with all humility and as an apology to those waiting for our responses, it is not personal, just a matter of where we are currently as a company, slowly but surely on our way out of business to pursue other interests.
