Kurt Dinnes, Not Your Ordinary Contractor

Kurt Dinnes is not just another Builder, he makes topographic points that you are proud to name home. The last place that he built was a high-tech Showcase Home in Sooner State City. It sold for just under $500,000 and all the return went to charity.

Kurt is one of the Managing Partners of Sun Contracting, a building company that began in the early 90's. Kurt is also the President of Greaser Mayo, which is a concatenation of modern-day Tex-Mex eating houses spreading out across the South cardinal part of the US. He and Randy Earhart, the other Managing Partner, began Sun Construction to suit the demands of their burgeoning eating house business. With 88+ eating houses spreading across the South cardinal United States since 1978, in-house construction and remodeling of many of these became a necessity. They establish that they could pull off the building more economically and efficiently if they acted as the general contractors. With a successful concern theoretical account implemented, other people were soon requesting their services.

A member of the Sooner State City Homebuilders Association, Kurt takes his part to the community to heart. Part of the Greaser Mayo missionary post statement reflects this: "Recognizing that success makes not come up easily, especially for people in less fortunate circumstances, we take very seriously our duties to the communities that have got been so good to us." Sun Contracting was honored to take part in the southwest HomeBuilders Association Showcase Home charity program. They donated all their fees in improver to helping to beg sellers to donate furnishings, stuffs and high-tech appliances for the Showcase Home.

The 2007 Showcase place set a fundraising record. Over 70 vendors, manufacturers, craftspeople and craftsmen donated or heavily discounted their stuffs that went into the three bedroom, one out-of-door life room house. "Normally, it would take at least a twelvemonth to construct this sort of home, instead of a small more than than four months," Dinnes said. "The subcontractors went manner beyond the phone call of duty," he said. All this in order to ran into the Showcase of Homes deadline. The 3,500-Square-foot house includes a 700 square-foot game-theater room. "This is the room of rooms," Dinnes said. The house also have many littler elements that do a house a home, including a pot-filler faucet by the kitchen stove and six showerheads in the maestro shower. Dinnes said "the more than sophisticated purchaser will inquire about updated options for the bathroom, but he also wishes educating other purchasers about their shower selections. I love building people's dreaming homes," he said.

The net income from the house after the sale went to The Southwest Homes charity. This charity donates money to the local schools, YMCA, and houses for handicapped children that they support. The Showcase Home was featured in Central all right Homes Magazine and drew over 2500 visitors. People from the country came to not only see the place but also to see the up-to-the-minute engineering in the place edifice industry. The Showcase Home featured chiseled stone, unsmooth cedar tree beams, scribed wood floors, high-tech appliances, low VOC lighting, house-wide environ sound, a built-in theater system, and an out-of-door life room complete with fireplace. Steve Spitz, from "Better life with Steve Spitz", a West seashore designing show, assisted with colour picks and interior designing for house.

Kurt is a people guy. It is evident when you ran into him. He is outgoing and friendly and at first introduction, do you experience like you've known him since class school. He loves to work with his clients, helping to work out their selling and funding jobs in the eating house concern as well as with place edifice solutions. His typical twenty-four hours dwells of meetings with clients, employees and the members of his Greaser Mayo team, listening to jobs and coming up with solutions.

The most hard challenges he come ups across in the catching concern are managing outlooks with subcontractors. Kurt have high standards. Like a superhero, he wishes to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary. With sees to deadlines and quality products, sometimes subcontractors make not see things the same way. Rather than see the glass as half-full though, Kurt always pulls off to see the cup as overflowing.

Kurt's Four Favorite Tools

1. DeWalt Cordless impact drill

2. Paslode cartridge nailer

3. Makita 7-1/2" Miter Saw

4. DeWalt Laser Leveler