Notes from an Eastside design-build office
Short pieces on the structural side of remodeling: what a drawing has to answer before it is priced, what we find in crawlspaces, and why two similar-looking projects can land in different budgets. Written by the engineer and the project lead who did the work.
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From the office and the job site
On site · 23 October 2026 · 3 min readWhat we look for in the first twenty minutes on site
The free site visit is not a sales call with a tape measure. Here is the order we actually work in, and why the attic comes before the kitchen.
Structure · 14 October 2026 · 3 min readA beam is not the expensive part
Homeowners price a wall removal by the beam. The beam is rarely what moves the number — what the beam lands on usually is.