At Log Masters Restorations (LMR), we value our subcontractors’ expertise and offer flexibility and benefits to support your success. Here’s what you can expect when partnering with us:
- Control Your Schedule
- No Client Hassles
- Access To Health Benefits
- Support For Entrepreneurs
- Flexibility and Freedom
- Employment Opportunities
Log Masters Restorations offers exciting opportunities for contracting crews to work on high-demand projects. Join us in maintaining top-quality standards while fostering entrepreneurship and growth. Our success stories, like Philemon’s journey from crew member to business owner, inspire the next generation of Log Masters.
Before we get too much further: looking for a place to apply? Our application page is live. Contractors Wanted!
Be An Industry Leader
In today’s log home preservation industry, many professionals prefer to take control of their work by becoming their boss. Subcontracting labor is a common practice among successful log home companies. While we do have a dedicated employee base and provide apprenticeships in the spring, the majority of experienced individuals in this industry prefer to work as 1099 subcontractors. This allows them to set their own work schedule, prioritize family time, take the winter off, and be available for other client projects.
Why Do Log Home Restoration Companies Hire Subcontractors
That’s a good question and one we asked ourselves. The simple answer is that the construction industry needs help with the labor workforce since few young people choose it as a career option. Almost everyone is struggling to find laborers, especially in trade-skill jobs. No one understands the importance of employee retention like those in the log home services business. Read More!
Control Your Schedule
You’re not an employee, so there is no clock in and out, giving you more freedom over your time. You can choose how many contracts you take on and dictate the terms of your service times. This flexibility allows you to plan family time around work or prioritize more profitable contracts when opportunities arise. Below is an additional explanation:
- Except where a contract dictates, and you’ve agreed, there are no dictated weekly expectations from 8 to 5, Monday through Friday, set schedules.
- However, these are often the best times to schedule services since the homeowners are often at work, or it is the general expectation by clients.
- We try to schedule restorations as soon as possible, as clients are often eager to restore their cabins as soon as possible.
- You will discuss the scope and amount of each contract before signing an agreement for services as a partner in the contract.
- You will be expected to finish contracts promptly under the supervision of our Log Masters Project Manager, who will guide you in meeting our LMR Quality Service Expectations.
- Project Managers will be available for additional training as needed.
- Project Managers will help in any way possible to ensure that the restoration meets the standards clients have come to appreciate in our services.
- Example: You can take one contract from us in May, another with someone else, and return in August for another contract—it’s not a problem.
Please let us know when you have scheduled openings; we will help you fill them out. To learn more about our quality service expectations, download the document below: Quality Control Checklist Download.
We Handle the Details
You are one of the most skilled contractors doing log cabin repairs, and you work hard, putting in weekends to respond to potential clients, set up for the next contract, pay taxes, handle financing and legal, marketing, etc. It’s a lot. Initially, you wear multiple hats and can hardly wear them all at once. Nick, founder of Log Masters, and Scott, owner & partner, have experienced this firsthand. If only there were six guys just like you taking care of the stuff you don’t like doing. Search no more because we may have your solution.
Our Solution
We handle all material purchases and deliveries, client communication, and contract management so you can focus on your craftsmanship without distractions. All you’ll need is a bookkeeper to file your taxes, which you probably already have. If you don’t have one, B&C Accounting and Tax, LLC is a great firm familiar with log home restoration services and offers very affordable bookkeeping and tax filing services for contractors.
Our System
One thing we found challenging was juggling all the demands of running a company, as expected by state and federal rules and regulations, while also trying to provide the services. With our system, we handle all the back-end administrative work expected by clients, so you don’t have to. There is no need to play phone tag with potential clients & build detailed contracts only to discover they found someone else who answered the phone and immediately got a contract to them. Your downtime is your downtime again.
No Client Hassles
Our offices will manage all interactions with customers, neighbors, and vendors, freeing you to focus on what you do best. This was another problem we discovered when making contracts. Juggling customer calls promptly is one thing, but managing several types of communications can be challenging to organize and track.
Feeling Overwhelmed
It can be overwhelming to manage the business as a whole: collecting debts, paying overhead bills, ensuring contracts are signed and returned, quality-controlling employees’ work, payroll, and taxes, and handling communications from current and future clients. Not to mention all the other hundreds of people who regulate businesses that you’ll need to keep in contact with regularly, such as your lawyer, vendors, state and federal governing agencies, IRS, website team, or marketing team. It can destroy a good service business. We hope our system will benefit your growth.
Access to Insurance Benefits
Offering dedicated employees benefits like insurance isn’t easy for a small business, making it hard to keep skilled workers. Often, the cost is astronomical or unavailable due to company size. Regardless of your company’s size, you can access AFLAC health supplements and insurance options, including dental, vision, critical care, cancer, life, and short-term disability coverage, through our company & AFLAC at a meager cost. This allows you to secure essential coverage cheaply, providing extra peace of mind for your crew and family and making your employment more attractive.
Support for Entrepreneurs
If you need help setting up company insurance or your business, we’re here to offer advice! We believe in supporting entrepreneurs and are happy to provide guidance. Our team of managers has years of experience restoring cabins and can deliver your team training as needed upon request. Of course, like our team of Log Masters, we strongly encourage all our contractors to take classes with Perma-Chink Systems and Sashco Inc. to become familiar with their products as we use them the most, if not exclusively.
Flexibility and Freedom
Whether you want to take on as many contracts as possible or just a few, you can choose what works best for your lifestyle and business needs. If you are skilled in log home restoration and maintenance and willing to follow our quality expectations on contracts, we have plenty of work to keep you busy all summer.
Log Masters Team building on a hike in Colorado near Keystone. In the picture from the left to right Philemon, Colt, and MO GM Scott
Employment Opportunities
If you prefer to be employed by us rather than subcontract, just let us know. We’re always looking for talented individuals to join the Log Masters team! If you’d like to learn more about working with us, read our article “A Day in the Life of a Log Home Service Provider at Log Masters Restorations.”