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This letter appeared in our InSide News to New Energy Works employees
in November 2004.
We have completed the Chung’s home in Crystal Beach on the
east side of Canandaigua Lake. The house has turned out beautifully.
Accolades to Steve Trautman (to whom I’m indebted for at least
a dozen cups of coffee) for an excellent job of site supervision
and management on a day-to-day basis. Many thanks to the rest of
our construction crew as well- particularly Sean, Mark, Jeff and
Eric (forgive me if I omitted anyone) for the work they did to create
this great home. Thanks too to Tad for input on fleshing out various
details. Of course, the home would not have been realized if not
for our other divisions as well. The timber frame is spectacular;
the design and layout works wonderfully (and may have sold another
job); the cabinetry and railings complement the home superbly; and
PMW did a great job milling the oak flooring. One thing that’s
particularly special about this home’s flooring is that we
took down roughly a dozen oak trees on the site prior to construction,
and those oak trees were brought back to our shop to be milled &
dried to create about ½ of the wood flooring. How cool is
that?
For those who don’t know, Dr. & Mrs. Chung traveled from
Korea in March to meet with us to finalize the design details of
the home. Dr. Chung had a practice in the Rochester area from the
late 1960s to the mid 90s; he and his wife then moved back to Korea
but are now returning to retire in this home. Their son Jim and
his wife Esther, who live in New York City, built the house for
them on the lot the family has owned for about 15 years. Mrs. Chung
stayed in Canandaigua while Dr. Chung returned to Korea for work
obligations, and Mrs. Chung has been a real trouper through the
construction process and the inevitable bumps in the road along
the way. She has been extremely gracious, often buying the crew
coffee, lunch, and end-of-the-day beverages.
It is a measure of our commitment to quality that one of the subcontractors’
foremen on the job, who is new to our homes, commented to me that
in his 20 years in the construction business locally, he has never
seen a house built with such attention to detail and obvious pride
in our work. He said it was the nicest home he’d ever worked
on!
We have been finishing up assorted punch-list items this past week.
We promised Mrs. Chung that she would be able to move in Monday
October 25th, and we met that goal. This is truly a home that everyone
in New Energy Works and Pioneer Millworks can be proud of; I know
I certainly am.
Great Job All!
Bruce
Bruce was the Chung's Project Manager during their timber frame
build.
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