Tips For Choosing A Custom Home Builder
Choosing a custom home builder when building a place to be called home represents a significant m…
Why Choose Us? Custom Home Builder – Colorado
WHY CHOOSE US?
At Robbins Contracting we are simply different. In a region saturated with many c…
Hanging Bling!
Black rubber gloves and plastic bags…. no believe it or not we’re not in a chemistry lab!
There…
Placing Flatwork in the Heat
Although placing concrete slabs in the blazing hot weather is not near as bad as placing it in th…
Stucco Systems
Ever wonder how a stucco system works? How they get the color on it? How the different textures…
Laying Out Tile…
Everyone notices a beautiful tile job in a luxurious master bathroom, but not many people underst…
Trimming Out a Window
There are a lot of hidden techniques in trimming a home, and we’ll show you a big one in trimming…
Biggest Cost Variables…
The most common question we get as custom home builders…. what does it cost!?
Well that questio…
What is a Scupper!!??
A scupper….. An exotic car part? A specialized cooking utensil for frying fish? A baby amph…
How Your HVAC System Works…
We can get into pages and pages of scientific analysis and mathematical theory depicting air flow…
Setting Spindles…
In carpentry, as in life, there are often several different ways of accomplishing any given goal….
Setting A Front Entry Door
Setting A Front Entry Door: It seems like setting a front door is one of those easily overlooked…
What is That!?
Just when you think you know your way around a jobsite, something inevitably shows up that you ab…
Distribution Transformers…
Ever seen one of these? Any idea what it’s for!? Of course not, no one knows what these things …
Applying For A Building Permit…
For every retail store front, residential subdivision, single building, or even deck addition, th…
Coping Base Boards…
Trim carpentry has become a lost art, a forgotten skill set that a lot of us don’t notice or appr…
Moving in the Wind…
Ever been sitting in your living room watching TV during a fierce wind storm and it feels like th…
Framing Secrets, Shh!…
It’s no secret, framing is a skill that takes practice and experience. Good framers are hard to …
Let’s Talk About Poop!…
Well, alright we’ll just keep it to how poop gets out of your house – specifically, in a septic s…
Creating An Indoor Waterfall…
It is safe to say that any builder’s eyebrows will raise a little when you tell them you would li…
Building A Safe Room…
For most of us, having our own personal safe room doesn’t sound like a practical room to h…
Behind the Retaining Wall…
Retaining walls can’t be that difficult to build, right? All it is is a bunch of blocks stacked …
Dealing with Expansive Soil…
It’s the big boogie monster that scares every builder in Northern Colorado… no it’s not a buil…
Bending Drywall Into An Arch…
You’ve seen it before, barrel ceilings and arched doorways wrapped in rounded rigid drywall. If …
Making Your Dream A Reality…
“Dreams exist only to awaken your future reality.”
Most often people work the majority of their l…