My brother, Jonathan, a web designer and developer for CBC, has been bugging me for the longest time to become a blogger. My reply to him was “But, I’m a carpenter why would I want to be a blogger… wait what’s a blogger?”

I didn’t think much about it, and everytime I would ‘talk shop’ to him, he’s like ’say it in your blog!’ Finally, one night I decided to look it up and came across a few descriptions. Most of them didn’t make too much sense to me, but what did make sense were the blogs themselves.

I found blogs on how build your own kites (http://zedomax.com/blog/2008/07/22/diy-how-to-make-a-box-kite/) to the next latest and greatest thing for the iphone (http://www.theiphoneblog.com/). It made me realize that this isn’t a forum for elite geeks and tech heads, because a lot of what I read was a normal person with something to say or show you.

I called my brother to say let’s do it, and of course, he’s asking me how to fill in a hole in his wall where the bathroom door knob went through the drywall. Which gave me another idea…. I bought a digital camera and slowly these ideas are taking shape in my mind.

Now to circle back…  for the folks who aren’t quite familliar with what ‘blogging’ is, here’s what I would like to do with my website:

• I’d like to show you my work,
• talk about buildings/construction and/ or tools that I like and dislike and…
• if you’ll listen to me long enough, maybe even inform some of you (brother are you paying attention here) with step by step methods to doing some of the minor home repairs that people often call me or ask me about.

The site is kind of bare now but  you will see I have added some of my projects that have been completed within the last year. If you have any questions, feel free to ask away, there is a form for comments on most pages, and you can always contact me privately here.  I will add more text to some of these posts as I go, as well as updating this site with my latest projects.

Thanks and take care,

Jason

This project for the YMCA was a renovation of an office area into semi-private cubicals. Click on the images for an enlargement.

After completing the kitchen we followed up with some custom tile work. We also did custom slate jewel tile work on the front face of the toe kick. the floor area covering about 800 square feet of space.

This deck was designed with space limitation in mind while at the same time providing  a full  wheelchair access ramp.