Ultimately, we are committed to ensuring that our clients enjoy the building process as much as we do.
It all starts with meeting one of our design professionals to design a home that fits your lifestyle as well as your budget. Of course, we are happy to work with an architect or designer of your choice. From the finished plan, we provide a detailed, transparent budget and timeline so that you can see how much each component will cost and when you can expect to see it finished. Our proven track record of working with clients to deliver quality homes on time and on budget makes building a new home a fun and rewarding experience.
Our Story:
Zimmerman Construction, like many construction businesses, began with a single person, a truck, a collection of tools and a dog. Soon after hiring our first employee it became clear that operating out of the back of a truck was inefficient as it required loading and unloading the tools for each day and inevitably forgetting some. So we bought ourselves a tool trailer. This was great! But it still left us milling and finishing wood on site and holding client meetings either on site or in coffee shops.
So we built ourselves a nice shop and outfitted it with quality tools, this gave us the ability to prepare and store materials offsite which has been excellent for workflow. It also gave us a space to meet with our clients in private with examples of our work to aid in material selections. Having a home base has allowed us to work more efficiently and improved our client and crews experience more than we could have imagined.
We then began to notice that hiring and renting machinery had several drawbacks, if we hired a machine with an operator, all of the machine work needed to happen in one jag, we had to carefully schedule the machine and communicate what we wanted done to an outside operator. If we rented a machine we paid by the day so regardless of if it worked 2hrs or 8hrs the cost was the same. So we bought some of our own, first a skid steer, than a man lift and most recently a mini excavator. This has been huge for our productivity and far more economical for our clients. Instead of explaining to and supervising an outside operator one of out crew simply jumps in a machine whenever needed and does the work.
Instead of having to pass on a full days rental cost to our clients for a machine that only worked for 4hrs we now only need to bill them for the time our machines actually work, if one of our machines only works for an hour a day that fine we bill for that hour and it can sit on site and cost our clients nothing the rest of that day.
Since our first trailer we have added three more and outfitted them with every tool a carpenter could possibly need. A complete tool crib onsite, a qualified crew backed by a fully stocked shop and quiver of machinery is now standard on all of our projects.
We continue to look for new ways to add value to our clients by improving our workflow and productivity while marinating a high level of craftsmanship as we have always done.
