From Dustin
More than ten years in the trade, applied to one thing
I started in residential carpentry, working for other contractors and taking side jobs out of a hatchback. From 2018 to 2022 I ran my own company, On the Edge Contracting: construction and industrial services, with a crew that averaged around sixteen people. After that I was a partner in BuildTech Contractors. The work ran from new houses and renovations to structural repairs, roofing, steel, concrete and industrial jobs.
Some of it was modular before we called it that: a 12x28 office built off site and delivered complete to the mill, and a 16x16 camp moved as a whole building. Most of what we build now goes together in the shop, out of the weather, then rides to your site ready to set.
I started ET Lux to specialize. General contracting means doing everything for everybody. A shop-built product means we build the same things again and again, and every time we refine the materials, the process, the workmanship and the cost.
If a five-dollar piece of flashing isn't in the quote, it goes on anyway. The job gets done right or it isn't done.
In my contracting days I rebuilt the exterior wall of a three-storey cottage where the chimney pipe had been flashed wrong when it was built. Water had run inside the wall for twenty years. Studs came out in handfuls, and the whole width of the house had to be replaced at the bottom. A few dollars of flashing turned into thousands of dollars of repair. That job is one reason the parts you'll never see get the same care as the parts you will: flashing, vapour barrier, insulation, blocking behind the drywall, framing done to code.
My wife and I had talked for years about building small modular buildings. ET Lux is that, built on more than ten years of construction work and business ownership.
Dustin Quinn, Red Seal Journeyman Carpenter
