Geoff Banks Carpentry

02/04/2021

We were tasked with building a bathroom in the Watts Block while the store was closed for the weekend, and without creating any dust. Paint, interior, and plumbing are all someone else's problems. I think we did alright, and we didn't disrupt business at all.

01/30/2021

We built a door for Steve.
The door is built from scratch using two layers of rabbeted local cedar. It is clinched throughout with galvanized nails from Tremont Nails, the oldest nail factory in the country.
We also fabricated the jambs and threshold, being Alaskan Yellow Cedar and pressure treated pine respectively.

01/21/2021

Once in a great while my job gets boring. Sometimes it's all about the boring. This hole took over two hours to cut through nine inches of foundation and one piece of rebar.
The rotary hammer and thinwall boring bit worked like a charm, though.

12/25/2020

A very Merry Christmas from all of us.
(Photo is from a Midnight Mass at the monastery a couple years ago, unfortunately).

03/29/2019

https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2019/03/29/barn-modern-farm-house-quebec-townships-architecture-orig.cnn-business

On a working farm in North Hatley, Quebec, the owners wanted a modern barn-style house that looked like it had been there for 100 years.