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Why Choose Us?

What saves you money and time is that the J-teams working for you know how to work together.   They've been working together for a long time.  Their families know each other and in many cases they get together off the job.

Another contractor may be able to pick up less expensive day laborers who have never worked together or an unfamiliar subcontractor hunting for work.  There's bound to be inefficiencies as that temporary crew figures out what needs to be done and how to work with each other.  Wouldn't your rather spend your money on a J-team that already knows how to get the job done?

Ever see those projects where one guy's working and four others are standing around waiting?

You save money when you pay for only the guy working — that's the idea behind J-Teams.  Each team is good at a specific job so you're getting value for your money.

Look around your own work place.  The job goes faster and more efficiently once you know who's good at what.

Well, the same thing goes for J-Teams.  Everyone on the roofing J-Team knows that Julio's little brother is a wizard when it comes to soldering copper flashing.  Your job moves fluidly as the best person steps up to each task.

You save money when you pay for only the guy working — that's the idea behind J-Teams.  Each team is good at a specific job so you're getting value for your money.

Construction is hard on tools.  That's why rental outfits try to amortize their equipement within 10 to 15 rentals.

We own our own tools.  From dump trucks to that handy little specialty tool Julio's brother uses for soldering copper flashing.

In the end you benefit when an artisan works with their own tools:

  • Familiar tools are used more effectively.  You get a better job faster.
  • Your costs are lowered because the job goes more quickly and:
    • no time is lost hauling tools to and from distant rental yards
    • charges for rental service overhead and profit are avoided

J-Built is licensed and bonded in DC, MD and VA.

Additional specialty licenses (plumbing and electrical) are held by individual J-Teams.

And yes we can make the necessary drawings and applications to obtain local building permits.

Being in the Washington area you probably know all about bureaucratic inefficiency.  It's hard to avoid on big projects.   By the same token that sort of overhead is a senseless waste of your money for smaller projects.

J-Built is just the right size of you need work on:

  • A single family home
  • A 1 to 10 room office suite
  • An apartment
  • A small apartment building (up to 10 units)
  • Behalf of a condominium or co-op association
And yes we work with realtors to prepare properties for sale or lease.

Don't you love it when a contractor disappears for a few days in the middle of a project?

Things go wrong in every project.  That's a fact.

But in the unlikely event that five people in a J-Team come down with the flu we don't just shut off our phones and hide.  We also don't just rush out to the local Home Depot parking lot and pick up any warm body to try to muddle through your job.

Perhaps, it's a matter of pride in our work, but if something goes awry we try to work with you to find a solution that lets us get the job done properly with the minimum inconvenience to you.

We make a sincere effort to answer or phones and respond to emails.

or us about your project!