The Daily Hailey

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So Hailey is away for the day celebrating the 10 year anniversary of her 20th birthday and I agreed to write this for her today so she wouldn’t have to worry about blogging. I dug deep down into the hidden recesses of my brain for something to write about and came up with nothing. 🤦

Then Hailey told me that some of her readers have expressed interest in what I do for a living. So here goes.

I am a finish/finishing/trim carpenter. I have no idea which one to call myself because everyone has a different label for it. And everyone has a slightly different idea of what a finish carpenter does. I feel like a general handyman a lot of the time. Finishing (see what I did there) the little jobs that need to be done to make a house look pretty. So I’m going to give you a run down of what I do. I’m using the pictures from our house build 2 years ago, sorry if some of them aren’t the greatest quality.

I like to call myself a trim carpenter these days because most of what I do is installing doors and trim in a house. I’ve been doing this for a solid 8 years now, being that I had a longtime carpenter friend of Hailey and myself offer me a job learning under him just a year after Hailey and I hitched our cabooses to each other.

I am lucky to have a contract with a fairly well known home builder who has now expanded to 8 western Canadian cities. I have been working with them since they started in our area over 5 years ago. It’s a good setup for me. I have dibs on the majority of the houses they build so for the most part I can dictate how much work I want. However, there are always slumps in the home building industry so I can’t say it’s a flawless setup.

Basically I take a house from freshly finished drywall and some bare framing to operational doors, trim, and closets.

From this…

To this…

And this…

I call this my ‘Stage 1’. So once I’ve installed the doors, trim, and whatever other custom woodwork needs to be done such as a fireplace mantle or basic handrails, then everything gets painted.

Once painting is done and flooring is installed I come back to install baseboards and any hardware required in the house that isn’t plumbing or electrical fixtures. Not much special to see there. Once I’ve installed baseboards and hardware I call it a day for that house. I may be required to go back to fix something but for the most part I’m finished with that house.

I do, however, occasionally do other carpentry related things such as kitchens…

By the way I also made that butcher block countertop.😎

Decks…

Even framing. (Which I do not have a picture for. LOL)

I’ve really tried to round out my field of carpentry knowledge and skills in the last couple years. Pushing myself to take on projects that I would have turned down 5 years ago. I pride myself on doing my job right, leaving no mistakes, and being a respectable/respectful businessman.

So there’s my sales pitch. Thanks for listening. 🙂