Finish Carpentry
QBC LLC is a finish carpentry contractor for multifamily and mixed-use projects across Wisconsin and Northern Illinois. Doors, base, case, trim, and ceilings under one contract.
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What is finish carpentry?
Finish carpentry is the interior woodwork and millwork installed after drywall: doors, frames, and hardware, door and window casing, window sills, baseboard, and trim. It is the carpentry you see when the building is done. Rough carpentry is the framing that drywall covers.
At QBC, this scope is called finishes. Our Trim Division installs doors, frames, and hardware, including fire rated doors and panic hardware (CSI Division 08), base, case, window trim, and sills (Division 06), and architectural ceilings on some projects. Cabinetry and countertops are their own QBC scopes, run by the same project manager, so one contract covers the whole interior.
QBC LLC has installed finishes on multifamily and commercial projects since moving into large multifamily work in 2008. Our Trim Division runs 5 to 10 large multifamily projects a year plus 10 to 15 smaller projects a month, from tenant improvements to developments over $115 million.
What you get with QBC finish carpentry:
- Doors, frames, hardware, base, case, window trim, and sills under one contract, labor and materials
- One dedicated project manager who also runs your cabinetry and countertops
- Submittals and lead times managed in preconstruction, so doors and hardware are on site when the trim crew is
- Crews that scale unit after unit, and four rounds of punch before closeout
- A 1 year labor warranty
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Why does finish carpentry decide the turnover date?
Finish carpentry is the last trade through every unit, so it inherits every delay in front of it and sets the date the unit turns over. A trim crew that waits on doors, or a door crew that waits on hardware, pushes punch, and punch pushes occupancy.
What does an experienced finish carpentry contractor do differently?
Submittals go in early: door schedules, hardware schedules, and trim profiles are signed off in preconstruction, and materials are ordered against real lead times. Before the first door hangs, the Foreman walks the site with the project manager, and the whole crew goes over the plans on site, so everyone knows what they are there to accomplish before they pick up a tool.
How does QBC protect the finish schedule?
One project manager builds one schedule for trim, cabinetry, and countertops, so the handoffs happen on paper before they happen in the building. Commitment is one of our twelve core tenets: see it through. Four rounds of punch is how we practice it.
What does QBC install as finishes?
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How does finish carpentry hand off to cabinetry and countertops?
In order. Doors, base, and case go in, cabinets follow, countertops are laser templated once the cabinets are set, and the trim crew returns for the final pieces. With one QBC project manager over all three scopes, nobody waits on a phone call to find out when the next trade shows up.
Framing to finishes means we can frame the building and come back to finish it, or take the finishes alone. The contract looks the same either way.
How a QBC finish carpentry project runs
- Invite us to bid. Send plans to bids@questbuildingcorp.com. We take off and bid every requested scope, labor and materials, under one contract.
- Preconstruction. Your project manager is assigned. Contract, plans, and schedule are reviewed with the team. Door schedules, hardware schedules, and trim profiles are signed off, samples ordered, and doors, hardware, and trim ordered against lead times with deliveries scheduled by scope.
- Installation. One project manager runs the project and coordinates with our Foremen on site. The Foreman and crew go over the plans on site before the first door hangs.
- Punch. Four rounds: ours, yours, the owner's, and final.
- Closeout. Warranties sent.
Why hire QBC for finish carpentry?
Doors, base, case, window trim, and sills from one contractor, with cabinetry and countertops under the same contract and the same project manager. Labor and materials, one schedule, four rounds of punch, and a 1 year labor warranty.
Questions about QBC
Finish carpentry is the interior woodwork and millwork installed after drywall: doors, frames, and hardware, door and window casing, window sills, baseboard, and trim. It is the carpentry you see when the building is done. Rough carpentry is the framing that drywall covers.
No. Our finish carpentry crews work for general contractors and developers on multifamily and commercial projects. The one place we work directly with homeowners is our Countertop Packages.
Yes. QBC installs interior doors, fire rated doors, frames, and door hardware, including panic hardware (push bars), on multifamily and commercial projects. It is CSI Division 08 work, installed by the same crews and under the same contract as base, case, and trim.
One dedicated project manager builds one schedule for all three scopes. Doors, base, and case go in first, cabinets follow, countertops are laser templated once the cabinets are set, and the trim crew returns for the final pieces.
Yes. Most of our finish carpentry is on large multifamily projects. Our Trim Division runs 5 to 10 large projects a year plus 10 to 15 smaller projects a month, and crews scale to keep pace unit after unit.