Site Superintendent Brian Hering | Meet the Team

Brian has been with Hammer & Hand off-and-on for a cumulative 7 years. A self-taught carpenter, Brian made use of to be a mold maker for historic and decorative architecture with a area company referred to as Architectural Castings (formerly Architectural Reproductions). He fell into remodeling during the 2008 fiscal collapse and found that he was fairly adept at it. He ongoing honing his skills and constructing encounter in excess of the up coming ten years and a fifty percent, throughout which he found Hammer & Hand by means of the friend of a neighbor.

Brian is presently wrapping up a challenge that has been his favourite of the very last 7 several years. With a distinct fondness for revitalizing homes constructed in the 1920s through the 1950s, he thrived as Web-site Superintendent of this Historic Portland Transform. Residences of the era present a great deal of unique challenges but also have a ton to admire in the craftsmanship of their architecture. The venture expected important upgrades, together with shifting a stairway, rerouting a tough HVAC procedure, and lifting a sagging floor that experienced declined a whole three inches on a person facet of the century-aged home.

“It’s an arduous and laborious profession,” says the cordial and upbeat Hering, “That explained, I have a tendency to overlook all that with all the appreciation acquired from clientele, pals, and relatives.”

Outside of perform, Hering is an avid comedian reserve collector and self-proclaimed “video sport junky,” and potentially unsurprisingly, a huge LEGO fanatic.

Brian can be viewed hosting our current Historic Portland Remodel video clip series on YouTube. Much more episodes are dropping weekly, so head about to see the amazing diamond-in-the-rough change into a stunning, modernized dwelling.

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