Exploring Life & Business with Chris Glass of JWAC Construction Incorporated

Today we’d like to introduce you to Chris Glass.

Hi Chris, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.
As a family, we always fixed our own stuff growing up. I didn’t even realize that people got paid to fix other people’s homes until I started working for CAG Services in 2000. It was very surprising to me that people didn’t know how to fix what seemed to me to be simple stuff.

I started like everybody else, I think. Building skateboard ramps with friends in the neighborhood, I blew out the back wall of a storage shed we had, and expanded that when I was 9 or 10. I had no idea what I was doing, but I just made it look like what was there. It was still standing when we sold that house 7 years later…

I moved to Atlanta to go to AIM and then got a job with SecondHeaven Music. The music label didn’t make it, and my girlfriend (now wife) at the time was a bartender. One of the guys at the bar needed help. So I started helping him with windows, doors, replacement glass, and whatever else came his way. That was in 2000.

I went out on my own in 2005 as a handyman, windows, doors, and whatever else. I helped a mentor of mine (Bob with All Right Glass) to make ends meet when work was slow. In 2009, we incorporated and changed the name to JWAC Construction. I had a very short-lived partnership at the time that did not work out.

I became a licensed Residential Building Contractor (Residential General Contractor) in 2017, and here we are…Looking to help people Repair, Remodel, or Refresh their biggest investment…Home.

Kitchens and Bathrooms are the main gig, but we love Basements and additions as well. Some clients have been with us for a long time, some since 2005/2006, which means that you can never go too far from your roots. Handyman stuff still gets done on a very regular basis.

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
I don’t know what a “smooth road” is. It hasn’t been easy, but it definitely could have been, could be harder. I have been blessed, I do know that.

I think I struggle with the same thing everyone else does. How do you make something out of nothing when you can only see foggy glimpses of what it is you should be making?.

I had to figure out: what my “numbers” were. Insurance. Deligation. People. Sales. All of it. Sometimes I feel like I have a grip on one or two things, and other times I don’t. On top of that, you need to try to improve your craft, or at least understand it, so you know if it’s being done right.

The cherry on top is that new handymen and “remodeling” companies start every day. They may or may not know their numbers, and if they don’t (which they probably don’t), they price jobs way too low, making those who do know look extremely overpriced.

I really don’t know. The road is not smooth. Everything seems to have some kind of struggle. But then again, who said it was gonna be easy?

As you know, we’re big fans of JWAC Construction Incorporated. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about the brand?
JWAC is a small remodeling company specializing in existing structures. Primarily kitchen, baths, and basement renovations.

JWAC is trying to fill the space between for the people who want all the bells and whistles that come with larger, high-end remodeling companies, but can’t afford them. So we make sure to have someone from JWAC there to either do the work or manage our trade partners who are doing the work. We want you to see a familiar face every time work is being done.

Als Ik Kan: the best I can. That’s what JWAC goes after, doing our best. I know it sounds cliché, but it is true. We are always trying our best, and that means being better today than we were yesterday. Nobody is perfect but we can always try.

Can you talk to us a bit about happiness and what makes you happy?
That would imply that I am sad. I’m not. In a nutshell, I would say…completion. A job well done, a day well lived.

Why? What else do we really have? If you can’t enjoy standing back and looking at the yard you just mowed, thinking about the trick you just learned, or remembering a time that was mundane in the moment, but makes you smile because it happened and you’re remembering it for some reason, then you may need to talk to somebody cause those things and many others are where happiness lives.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://jwacinc.com
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