The builderyour neighborskeep going back to.
Eight out of ten Belanger clients come back for a second project. Not would recommend. Come back. The kitchen they did not build the first time. The all season room they did not know they wanted in 1998 and do now.
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People who hired Steve kept hiring Steve.
Each row is one family. Each year is a project they came back for. The math is the trust.
Steve walked the lot in April before we broke ground in August. He knew where the light would fall in October before we did.
Four things he builds well.
Custom homes
On your lot or ours. Steve drafts in CAD. His crew builds. Steve walks the punch list with you.
Large renovations
Estate scale. Whole house. Lived in while we work, when that is what is needed. Owner on site every Monday and most Fridays.
Aging in place
Two stories now. One story later. A CAPS specialty.
Porches and rooms
All season rooms, screen porches, decks at second story height. The room the house was missing.
He builds the house you will still want when your body has changed.
A couple commissions a house in their fifties. Years later, the mother-in-law moves in. The wife, in her seventies, breaks a hip. Most houses built for healthy people in their fifties become traps when those same people are in their seventies. A Belanger house is built knowing this.
Wider doorways, planned even when no one needs them. Bathrooms framed so a grab bar can go in later without tearing out tile. A stair landing sized for a lift that may never come, and may.
Material as character,
not as finish.
A door pull at hand scale. The grain of the oak we mill in Howell. The tile join your finger will know.
For twenty years,
he has been giving Saturdays away.
A Saturday morning. A stranger's front yard. Pressure treated lumber. Finished by noon. No payment. No signage. The Brighton Rotary Raiders. Habitat for Humanity.
He once built a saltwater aquarium
into a living room wall.
Be ruthless
on your own behalf.
Here is how.
The questions to ask any builder before signing. Including the ones we would rather you did not ask us.
How to vet any builder →- 01.A current, unencumbered license.
- 02.Three references whose projects finished more than two years ago.
- 03.A walk of an active jobsite. Unannounced if they will allow it.
- 04.A copy of their insurance certificate. Read the exclusions.
- 05.A written policy on change orders. Read it twice.
- 06.Three bids on the same drawings. Compare line items, not totals.
- 07.Ask what they have turned down, and why.
The phone
is the brand.
810 · 227 · 6118Steve answers, most days. Leave a message if not — he'll call back the same day.