in good hands and receive the same star-quality treatment.” As he mentioned, Dan comes from a background in engineering. Prior to starting Monk Renovations, he spent roughly 15 years working for other construction companies. Over the course of his previous career, he noticed that there were no local residential renovation companies that had engineers on staff. He believed that was a niche he could fill. “Having anengineer at thehelm, I think we bring something different to the table,” he says. “We have a certain way of approaching things. We’re methodical. We’re logical. The design needs to work. It needs to function.” “When I look at a project, I always look at through the lens of an engineer,” he continues. “And I always have. I remember when I started the company, a few colleagues asked me, ‘Are you still an engineer?’ I said, ‘You can’t stop being an engineer.’ It affects the way I look at the world. It affects the way I look at problem solving. I’m always going back to my training. I bring that to every job. I can’t help it. I even bring it to my personal life.” “So when people hire me, even though I’m not working as an engineer, they still get the same mentality,” he says. They get the same logic, the same rational, the same attention to detail. That’s what makes us different from a guy with a truck and a hammer.” When he started Monk Renovations, Dan was open to projects of all kinds – one of their first jobs was a chicken coop, for instance. In the years since, the company has grown MAY 2022
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