Halloran & Sons
(973) 555-0167 Walk a site with us

Custom homes and restorations, Essex County, New Jersey

Houses built to be lived in for the next hundred years.

Walk a site with us (973) 555-0167
A centre-hall colonial on its lot, shown half finished and half in frame: slate-blue clapboard, black shutters and a red door on the right, the timber studs and rafters standing open on the left.
  1. Two oaks kept, forty feet clear of the dig
  2. Footings 42 inches below grade
  3. Studs at 16 inches, headers doubled
  4. Weathertight by week 24
  5. Keys in week 36

Week 36 36

One of our houses, week by week.

  1. SiteWeeks 1 to 3

    We walk the lot before we draw a line.

    Soil, slope, drainage and the trees worth keeping, marked out with you on the ground. The plan goes down in string before any machine arrives.

  2. FoundationWeeks 4 to 9

    Footings below the frost line, poured by our own crew.

    Forty-two inches down, formed, inspected and poured. We backfill only after the town has signed off the walls.

  3. FramingWeeks 10 to 17

    A frame you could walk through with us.

    Kiln-dried spruce at sixteen-inch centres, every header doubled. You see the frame before a single wall is closed.

  4. RoofWeeks 18 to 24

    Closed in before the weather turns.

    Sheathing, underlayment and shingles, then the windows and the chimney. From here the inside stays dry.

  5. KeysWeeks 25 to 36

    Handed over the week we promised.

    Siding, trim, paint and planting, then a walk through every room with you. Then the keys, and a written warranty on all of it.

Three generations, counted

96%Of our last fifty jobs finished inside the week we promisedJob book, 2021 to 2026

They found rot behind the kitchen wall on day three, showed us, priced it on the spot, and still handed us the keys the week they promised.
Priya and Tom ReillyKitchen remodel, Montclair, 2025

What we take on

The right amount of work, for your house.

  1. A repair

    One room, one problem, fixed properly.

    A written warranty on the work

  2. A remodel

    Kitchens and baths rebuilt around how you live now.

    Drawings for every change

  3. A restoration

    Old houses brought back without losing what made them.

    A record of original materials

  4. A new home

    Designed, permitted and built by one crew.

    The house, and every plan for it

Every job starts with a walk through the house, at no charge.

Visit

Come and see a job in progress.