Owner Builder Friendly Suppliers & Subcontractors
Below is a list of suppliers & subcontractors that some of our past Adobe in Action owner builder support recipients recommend:
General Northern New Mexico (Quentin Wilson - Various Owner Builder & Contractor Projects)
Quest Adobe - Questa, NM (Adobe blocks. Deliveries by Taos lumber yard for the time being.)
Olguin's Sawmill - Taos, NM
Moore Cash Lumber, LLC - Hernandez, NM (Has boards, beams, vigas which are often cut on a custom basis. Delivery and placement of beams and vigas on top of walls. Call 505-753-5717. A number I have been dialing for forty years.)
Groff Lumber - Albuquerque, NM
Taos Area (Dan Krause - Owner Builder Project)
Quality Timbers (Sawmill) - Antonito, CO (Good experience with them for lintels, T&G, and dimensional lumber. They can also grade stamp. Call 719-843-0280.)
Santa Fe Area (Paul Mallory - Owner Builder Support Project)
MCD Electric - Santa Fe, NM (Great electricians and fair pricing.)
Sunsilk Landscaping - Santa Fe, NM (Did brick floors in my bathrooms and they were great.)
Bar C Metal Roofing - Jacona, NM (They are very helpful and patient. They walked through my roof plan with me. Brian is super helpful.)
Hansen Lumber - Santa Fe, NM (I bought my lintels here. They are helpful and talked through my order with me. They only do rough cut lumber, mostly ponderosa pine. They deliver.)
NM Earth Adobes - Albuquerque, NM (Very professional. Helen was super helpful and they delivered everything on time and their bricks were great to work with.)
Kinney Brick - Albuquerque, NM (Really good for fired bricks. They deliver.)
Builders First Source - Santa Fe, NM (Good for sourcing CMUs big enough for adobes. They also had tongue & groove boards at really good prices, and 5" spiralized nails with heads. They deliver.)
Española Transit Mix - Española, NM (Good for fill dirt, which could be used for floors/plaster/mortar/bricks. The dirt had some large rocks in it, but it came from a consistent location, making it predictable to work with. They deliver. )
Albuquerque Area (Albuquerque Joinery - Various Contractor Built Projects)
Wholesale Timber & Viga - Bernalillo, NM (Amazing source for locally harvested rough sawn lumber. Jeff (owner) can help folks with beam sizing as well.)
Silver City Area (Ethan Novikoff - Owner Builder Support Project)
Sean Demarco, HomeTech Services, LLC - Silver City, NM (Experienced completing electrical work with adobe walls. Works well with owner-builders.)
Tucker Looney, T.W. Looney Timber - Silver City/Cliff, NM (Viga, lintel, and lumber supplier. Easy to work with. Responsive.)
MasterCraft Metals, Inc. - Silver City, NM and Tucson, AZ (Standing seam metal roof supplier. Great product. Will deliver metal and cut to length onsite.)