No allowance games
Allowances are set at real supplier quotes, not lowball placeholders that blow up at selection time.
Homeowner review
The estimate we signed in March was the invoice we paid in November. Nothing was quietly added on the way through.
Homeowner review
Same four faces on site every morning for eight months. By the end they knew the house better than we did.
Who you are hiring
We are a team of licensed builders working out of Springfield. Since 1998 we have taken houses from a sketch on a napkin to a set of keys.
Twenty-odd homes a year, no more. It is a deliberate ceiling: it is the number our own crews can frame, roof and finish without handing your job to whoever happens to be free that week.
Marcus Holloway Site superintendent, on every build since 2006
Licensed and insured Illinois residential builder registration held continuously since 1998.
Fixed-price contracts Allowances are priced before signing, so the number does not move mid-build.
One superintendent The same person runs your job from permit application to punch list.
Ten-year structure warranty Written cover on foundation, framing and roof structure on every home.
Why build with us
Experienced crews, honest fixed pricing
Most build stress comes from not knowing what is happening or what it will cost. We removed both by pricing everything up front and reporting every Friday.
- A dated schedule agreed before contract, updated every Friday
- One superintendent and one phone number, not a call centre
- Site photos and running cost tracking in a client portal
- Trade partners we have worked with for more than a decade
In-house crews
Framing, roofing and finish carpentry are ours. Only mechanical trades are subcontracted, and always to the same firms.
A date, not a season
The contract carries a completion date with agreed damages if we miss it for reasons that are ours.
Eleven-month callback
We come back before your warranty year is up and fix what has settled, whether or not you noticed it.
How we build
Six stages, and you know the number by stage two
Most of the fear in building a house comes from not knowing what happens next or what it will cost. This is the whole sequence, start to finish.
First conversation
Forty-five minutes on your lot or at our office. What you want, what you own, what you can spend. No charge and no follow-up calls unless you ask for them.
Feasibility and budget band
We check setbacks, soil, drainage and utility runs, then give you a real cost band for the house you described. Plenty of people stop here, and that is fine.
Design and selections
Drawings develop while we price alongside them, so you find out what a detail costs while it is still cheap to change. Fixtures and finishes get chosen before contract, not during.
Fixed-price contract
Allowances locked at real supplier quotes, permits filed, schedule dated. You sign one number and one completion date.
Construction
One superintendent, our own framing and finish crews, photos and cost tracking every Friday. Anything that needs a decision reaches you in writing.
Handover and warranty
Walkthrough, punch list closed before you move in, then a scheduled callback at eleven months so anything that has settled gets fixed inside the warranty year.
Stages one and two cost you nothing and carry no obligation. Most clients spend four to six weeks there before deciding whether to go on.
Start at stage oneThe people on site
Meet the crew running your build
Marcus Holloway
Site superintendent
Elias Werner
Lead carpenter
Daniel Vestergaard
Design and permits
Tomas Rivera
Finish trades foreman
Homeowners
Trusted by families who only build once
Illinois residential builder Registration held continuously since 1998. Licence number on every contract and permit application.
Insured and bonded General liability and workers compensation certificates issued to you before we start on site.
Lien waivers at every draw Signed waivers from every trade and supplier before each payment is released.
Have a plot, a plan or just a rough number in mind?
Tell us where you are up to and we will tell you honestly what it takes to build it.
