Sedgehead Home Services provides general contracting work for north central Arkansas. In the late 1980s we found the competition too hungrey to deal with and went into other lines of work. We could not compete, and choose to not compete with contractors who did things like use one nail per shingle in the roof put on for an 85 year old man (a rent house we then lived in). We found two roofs like this in the area; shingles need four nails, not one. Or the guy who, according to the lady homeowner, painted an entire house with a single gallon of paint, adding water to make it stretch. Today, we feel we can compete because we're not as hungrey, as the saying goes. Hungrey? That's a carpenter's phrase for "desparate to work, and willing to work for nothing". Instead, we hope to provide solid service at a reasonable price. Eventually, we will provide photos to show off our work.
Experience? We believe no other contractor in this area has our combination of experience. Sedgehead (also known as Philip E. Hyatt) grew up in the Yellville, Arkansas area and worked on homes in Bull Shoals, Lake View, Mountain Home, and Yellville. For example, we mixed mud for the block laying on the old Holiday Inn (now Baxter Inn) in Mountain Home circa 1970, reroofed a house in Yellville, laid block and framed in a house in Marion County overlooking the Bull Shoals State Park and the dam site, helped build the Bull Shoals water plant in 1987, repaired tornado damage in Mountain Home in 1986, etc. In south Texas we served as general contractor and worked with an architect to remodel a house to the tune of $145,000 in 1984. We laid block on the round house on Coweeta Church Road in North Carolina and dried in another house from the ground up in 1975. We helped one summer with concrete work on a warehouse in Clarksville, Tennessee and worked a couple projects including building a house in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. No other contractor knows the area by completing a survey of 1104 plants growing in the wild in Baxter County or served as a botanist or regional vegetation ecologist for a large land management agency, and has an undergrad degree in Zoology and a masters in botany. Licensed contractor in Mountain Home, Arkansas in 1985-1987 since summer 2007 when we started our retirement in the Twin Lakes area.
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