Commercial carpentry services for multifamily projects

QBC LLC provides four scopes for multifamily and commercial projects: framing, finish carpentry, cabinetry, and countertops, plus a building materials line for contractors who need lumber, trusses, wall panels, cabinets, or stone without the labor. Every scope comes with labor and materials under one contract, run by one dedicated project manager. About two-thirds of our projects combine two scopes, and about a quarter combine three or more. Take one scope or take all four. The contract looks the same either way.

Rough carpentry is the structural wood framing of a building: walls, floor systems, roof trusses, stairs, and blocking. Finish carpentry is the visible interior woodwork installed after drywall: doors, base, case, trim, cabinets, and countertops. Rough carpentry has to be plumb, level, and square so every trade after it can do its job. Finish carpentry has to be tight and clean because it is what the tenant sees. On a QBC project the same project manager runs both, so the framer who set the openings and the trim carpenter who hangs the doors in them answer to the same person. That is the handoff most projects lose.

Self-perform means the contractor’s own crews do the work instead of subcontracting it out. For a general contractor, self-performing a scope like concrete or carpentry is a way to control schedule and quality on work they would otherwise buy. For a trade subcontractor like QBC it means the same thing one level down: QBC crews, run by QBC Foremen and a QBC project manager, do the framing, finish carpentry, cabinetry, and countertop installation on your job. Some of those crews are long-standing subcontractors to QBC. They report to our Foremen, they follow our schedule, and most have been with us for years. You still get one contract and one contact, and the person you call when something needs fixing is ours.