Good Bones Defined: What Happens the Framing Stage of a Custom Home Build

Good bones.

Great structure.

The space just flows.

I'm sure you're nodding along, right? You knew everything that we meant.

Except, did you really? Because the bones of a home are more than just a feeling.

They're the culmination of real decisions made by real people using real lumber.

And what separates good bones from great bones is something you can see and feel from day one.

And... 20 years later, really is a huge part of building for a client because it's such a visual part of the build melody.

You know, every time we go out to a job site and get to see the trusses that are swinging, windows being installed, it really is fun to watch.

And it's really fun when your clients are there and they're excited about the process and everything.

But you know what? There are so many things happening in this phase that people really can't see.

And that's kind of what we're going to talk about today.

Right.

And Lance is an expert in invisible, but very visible.

And you're talking about Lance Berman from Primo Construction.

He's our framing contractor out in Northern Utah.

We've been using Lance now for several years.

And I think everybody should enjoy this interview because they'll learn why he's such a team player, but they'll also learn that he's a huge perfectionist.

So he's kind of like Hibbs Holmes in a way.

Quick question, because in the next episode, we're going to be talking a little bit more in depth with this, but how did we connect with Lance up there?

We connected with him through one of our superintendents who happened to run into him and started a conversation with him.

And we were asking around, quite frankly, when we moved into that market several years ago, we were asking around who the better framing contractors are because it's such an important part of what we do.

We talked about how important foundation was earlier.

We wanted to make sure that if we're marketing ourselves as one of the best builders in that market, we wanted to make sure we were using the best subcontractors.

So it did not take us long to find him.