HOW TWO GUYS
IN TWO WEEKS
BUILD CUSTOM
SHELLS
SYSTEMS, AND OLD-FASHIONED HARD
WORK
BY BILL WALSH
THE FORMULA: GOOD TOOLS, GOOD
"Come on! Two guys can't build a
1600-square-foot house in 11 days."
That's what they all say when we pull
up to look over the job. Eleven days
later they ask, "Who were those masked
men?" My partner Jerry and I live in
Maine and are taking advantage of the
building boom here. For the most part
we subcontract the framing of custom
homes by the square foot. We get our
work from general contractors who are
too busy to complete all the homes they
sell. We carry our own insurance and
supply only the labor at