Site Superintendent Brian Hering | Meet the Team

Brian has been with Hammer & Hand off-and-on for a cumulative 7 yrs. A self-taught carpenter, Brian employed to be a mould maker for historical and decorative architecture with a local company referred to as Architectural Castings (earlier Architectural Reproductions). He fell into transforming all through the 2008 fiscal collapse and observed that he was rather adept at it. He continued honing his abilities and creating knowledge around the up coming 10 years and a 50 percent, during which he learned Hammer & Hand through the good friend of a neighbor.

Brian is currently wrapping up a undertaking that has been his beloved of the final 7 several years. With a particular fondness for revitalizing residences designed in the 1920s via the 1950s, he thrived as Internet site Superintendent of this Historic Portland Rework. Properties of the period give a lot of exceptional worries but also have a lot to admire in the craftsmanship of their architecture. The job needed major updates, like moving a stairway, rerouting a difficult HVAC system, and lifting a sagging ground that experienced declined a total a few inches on one particular side of the century-previous residence.

“It’s an arduous and laborious profession,” states the cordial and upbeat Hering, “That explained, I tend to fail to remember all that with all the appreciation been given from clients, good friends, and relatives.”

Outdoors of get the job done, Hering is an avid comic book collector and self-proclaimed “video game junky,” and probably unsurprisingly, a substantial LEGO fanatic.

Brian can be witnessed internet hosting our latest Historic Portland Rework video sequence on YouTube. Much more episodes are dropping weekly, so head in excess of to see the remarkable diamond-in-the-tough renovate into a gorgeous, modernized household.

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