Multi-Trade Projects Under One Contractor

A shop or equipment pad poured, a steel cover built over it, and the line running to the equipment insulated. A driveway replaced with a gate and posts set into the new concrete instead of cored into it afterwards. A patio poured with a pergola anchored to it. A pipe rack welded, set on its own footings, and the lines it carries jacketed.

None of these are exotic. They are ordinary jobs that happen to need two crews — and ordinarily they mean two contracts, two deposits, two schedules and one argument.

Concrete first: everything else lands on it or gets anchored into it. Steel second, fabricated in the shop while the slab takes strength, so the crew arrives to a surface ready to hold anchor bolts. Insulation last, because it wraps equipment that is already installed and tested — wrapping first just means cutting the jacket off again to chase a leak.

The project planner applies that order to whatever you tick and gives you a realistic window, with the cure wait already inside it. It is the same arithmetic we use to schedule the crews.

The written estimate breaks out by trade, so you can see exactly what the concrete costs, what the steel costs and what the insulation costs. Nothing is bundled to hide a number, and you can take one line, two lines or all of it.

That matters more than it sounds: a bundled price is impossible to compare against anything, and it is the main reason people end up calling three contractors in the first place.

We are three trades, not a general contractor. Plumbing, electrical beyond wiring a gate opener, HVAC, roofing, framing and drywall are not ours, and we will say so instead of subbing them out and marking them up.

On a job that needs those, we are happy to work alongside whoever is doing them and schedule against their dates. Being straight about the edge of our scope is part of why the middle of it is reliable.