General Contracting · Tacoma to the Eastside · Veteran-Owned · WA L&I #BIGSTSG760LQ
Big Star General Contracting
Veteran-Owned
What we build

Exterior craft, taken seriously.

Nine disciplines, twenty years of practice, one builder running every site personally. There are a thousand contractors in the South Sound who can put a roof on a house. There are a handful who know which roof to put on, why, and what fails three years later when it's done wrong. We are in the second category.

01

Custom homes

Ground-up construction for clients with a clear vision and the patience to build it right. Twenty years of high-end residential experience, including custom builds in private mountain communities. Joel runs every project personally.

02

Roofing

CertainTeed Authorized Partner — the top-warranty brand in the industry, not the cheap IKO shingle most contractors quietly install instead. Custom metal flashing around chimneys (a Pacific Northwest necessity that lowest-bid roofers skip). Composition, metal, tile, low-slope.

03

Decks

Premium composite (Trex, Sunwood) installed correctly — the boards can't be cut on a standard saw without burning the edge, and the framing isn't 16-on-center like dimensional lumber. We know the difference. Most contractors don't, and the work shows it.

04

Hardscape & rockery

Retaining walls, terraces, native stone features, water features, drainage engineering. Disciplines learned co-owning an Arizona stone warehouse and on golf course construction. Master-plan-development scale, applied to your property line.

05

Concrete & land prep

Foundations, driveways, patios, cart paths. The difference between concrete that lasts thirty years and concrete that cracks in three is the environmental factors most contractors don't account for — soil prep, expansion joints, slope, mix specification. We do.

06

Fences & gates

The first thing your guests see, and the boundary that defines your property. Cedar, steel, automated entry hardware. Built to read as architecture, not utility.

07

Pole barns & garages

Detached structures, oversized garages, equipment barns. The kind of build Montana ranchers ask for, finished to suburban-residential standards.

08

Gutters

On-site gutter truck means seamless gutters cut to your roofline and color-matched in real time, not pre-fab sections joined with seams that fail in five winters. We can also fix the underlying roofing issues we find while we're up there. Most gutter installers can't.

09

Pre-sale renovation

For listing agents and homeowners with stale luxury inventory. Show-ready transformations on agent timelines. Pay-at-close arrangements available.

Start a project

Book your on-site project consultation.

We deliver top-quality work that lasts. Many imposters promise the world, only to leave you discovering later about the shortcuts they took to beat the lowest bid. Those shortcuts save you today and cost you plenty tomorrow.

We are licensed, insured, and bonded. Let our 30 years of vast planning and construction expertise guide your project to a successful outcome — on time and on budget. We excel at project management to contain pricing sprawl and protect delivery timelines.

How it works

Book your $300 on-site consultation. If you book the project with us, the $300 is applied toward your purchase. If you don't, you receive $200 in Big Star credit good toward any future project.

A real on-site visit by a real builder. Not a sales pitch from a phone-bank quoter.

On-site project consultation
$300
applied to your project · or $200 credit if you don't book
  • On-site walkthrough of your property and project scope
  • Direct conversation with Joel — not a phone-bank quoter
  • Written quote within 48 hours of the visit
  • Materials specification and timeline planning included
  • License, insurance, and bond verification on request
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