Highland Lakes Custom Carpentry

06/21/2025

Celebrating our 5th year on Facebook. Thank you for your continuing support. We could never have made it without you. 🙏🤗🎉

03/31/2025

🔨 Be sure to stop by and see our work Saturday April 5 1-3 pm at 701 South Vandeveer Street in Burnet.

01/09/2025

01/05/2025

Beautiful Creative woodworking

10/30/2024

👀 Now you see it - Now you don’t 🪄

✨ Another custom transformation complete 🙌🏼

📞 Give us a call and let us turn your space in to something truly unique 🔨

Need one of a kind built-ins? Wanting some unique wall coverings? Love to add beams to those ceilings? Highland Lakes Custom Carpentry is the finest in craftsmanship and design. We’re Veteran owned and operated and fully insured. Contact us today to install a one of a kind creation just for you and give your space a truly customized aesthetic!

10/21/2024

08/15/2024

03/01/2024

Home Buyer: I want a house built after 1980.
Me: Actually, you don't.
Let me explain.
Newer isn't always better, and this picture sums it up pretty well. The quality of modern lumber is simply far inferior to the quality of lumber they were using to build homes in the early and mid-20th century. Wood quality began dropping on a serious scale in the 1980s due to old-growth timber being almost completely depleted. Most wood used today is grown very fast - not only can you visibly see the difference in quality, but the newer lumber is more prone to rotting due to a lack of heartwood. Slow growth wood yields much more heartwood, which is the longest lasting part of the tree, whereas sap wood (new growth wood) will rot very quickly. Modern lumber is also a lot more prone to termite damage as it is softer and easier to consume whereas old lumber is extremely resinous and naturally termite resistant. A good rule - as long as the plumbing and electric has been updated, a well-built home from the mid-20th century is a better investment and will likely outlast a newer build. For more info on old growth wood versus modern lumber please read this great article: https://bit.ly/3h7MbBr

*Clarification: Yes, these two pieces of lumber come from two different trees. The expert in the attached article is not comparing the lumber of the same tree over time. He is comparing the lumber that was commonly used to build houses 75 years ago versus the lumber commonly used to build houses today.

01/11/2024

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