Welcome to Bennett Construction!
Austin, San Marcos and Pflugerville, Texas

Our Portable Buildings may be used for all kinds of purposes, from a spare bedroom to an office or a building for storage.

We pride ourselves on buildings in range from luxury to a set of more economical styles. We have prices for rapid to construct buildings, ones that can be built on your lot or built at our yard and hauled to your site.

We also offer a set of Do-It-Yourself portable building plans, which you may want to use if you cannot afford the labor charge for a pre-built building. These plans are complete to allow you to build a gable roof with either shingles or metal. We include fully detailed material lists with these plans and a free copy of our plans for sawhorses. If you prefer pre-built sawhorses, we can sell you a pair of sawhorses to help you get started quickly.

Updates

Great gift ideas. A pair of Sawhorses or DIY Sawhorse Plans

November 16, 2011
Looking for a great gift for a Do-It-Yourself-er?
How about a pair of sturdy sawhorses for all those projects.
Check out our page about our sawhorses.
Want to spend less, and give your Do-It-Yourself hours of fun?
Try our inexpensive Sawhorse Plans.

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I continue to add new pre-priced options for a variety of Deluxe and Economy Buildings. Please check our page: portable building prices and sizes.

November 16, 2011
Please call or text us directly. 512-584-1961.
We are ready to start as soon as you are!

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Our in-house database.

May 10, 2012
We have an in-house database with a set of applications that allow us to have a current set of materials prices, project materials and labor costs.
This allows for much faster and more accurate estimating for bidding purposes.
We offer moderate database design and programming services as well as Perl programming.
Please see Web Design, Hosting and Custom CGI and Database Programming

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Photos of a new shower room onto an existing half bath.

November 15, 2010
I added some photos of a recent job installing a new shower room onto an existing half bath, using empty attic space. You may look at: Shower Room Photos

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We now are offering Do It Yourself Plans for building sawhorses.

October 15, 2010
Some of our customers located far away from Austin have found shipping to be just too high. So we finally got around to making some detailed plans you can use. These plans include a lot of useful carpentry tricks, safety advice, things to consider when buying wood available in your local area, and all the measurements, materials and different tool choices you can make, depending on your budget. There are also useful drawings and photos.
Please check it out at Sawhorses and DIY Plans

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Added an Article on Truss Bracing Repairs.

July 29, 2009
I have added a short article about Repairs to Roof Trusses. I mentioned this home below.

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Added a Guide to Adding Carport and Patio Roofs

July 14, 2009
I have added a short Guide to Adding Carport and Patio Roofs. I will add on to this as time permits. This shows pictures of two houses I saw somewhere that had very clear examples of two different and excellent carport roofs.

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Milburn Homes with Improperly Braced Roof Trusses.

July 8, 2009
We recently did a job that involved replacing a Kitchen and Dining Room Ceiling. Part of the old ceiling had fallen a few inches and was very ugly. We discovered that the Roof Trusses were not braced as required! This was actually quite inexpensive to repair. This is a serious safety issue, however. You can easily check to see if your trusses are properly braced or not. Any long lengths of 2" x 4" (not short pieces) must have either a 2" x 4" or 2" x 6" nailed on top, forming what looks like a T shape along the truss or a long 2"x 4" or 2" x 6" running lengthwise joining many trusses together at these weak points. Best of all, these sections are marked with paint right from the factory! You can look for these paint marks without even getting fully into the attic, just looking around with a light.

Example of what roof trusses are.

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Part 2 of Dealing with Contractors

January 25, 2009
Put up second part of Dealing with Contractors: How to Do Business Successfully - Part 2.
Part 1 is here

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