About JMC Builders

Who We Are

JMC Builders Limited is Jamie Corrigan's building company on the Kapiti Coast. Jamie has been building on the coast since 2003, completed his National Certificate in Carpentry in 2008, became a Licensed Building Practitioner in the Carpentry class in 2011, and incorporated the company in 2015; the Companies Office record and the public LBP register both carry the details. It is a small business built the way a trade business should be: the person who looks at your section or your house, prices the job and runs it is the same person, and the same phone number works before, during and after.

The work is the bigger residential jobs. New homes, from architectural one-offs on the beachfront and in the hills to family homes in the new subdivisions; renovations and extensions that add rooms, add a storey or open a house up; and reclads of the plaster and weatherboard houses on the coast whose cladding has failed. Jamie works with a small team and a group of subcontractors - plumbers, electricians, roofers, painters, scaffolders - he has worked alongside for years, and one of his customers put it well: he seems able to attract good workers who are easily motivated.

How We Work

Every job starts with Jamie at the site or the house. Not a price over the phone, because that number is worth nothing until someone has seen the ground the house will stand on, the wall you want gone, or the framing behind the cladding. Then an itemised quote, and a written building contract where the law requires one - which for residential work of $30,000 or more including GST is every job JMC takes on. Consents, engineering, council inspections and the code compliance certificate are handled as part of the job. The trades are booked and sequenced by Jamie, and you deal with one person.

Then the part the customers on this page talk about most: what happens when the job turns out to be bigger than the plan. A slow renovation that exposed a structural problem. A reclad that uncovered enough water damage to demolish part of a two-storey house. An old place on a sand dune that is almost impossible to get to. In each case the answer was a workable plan, regular communication, and a house the owners are proud of, and those are their words rather than ours.

Licensed Building Practitioner

The structure of a house and everything that keeps the weather out of it - foundations, framing, roof, cladding, windows and doors - is restricted building work under the Building Act, and it must be done or supervised by a Licensed Building Practitioner, who signs a record of work for it that goes to the council. Jamie holds a Carpentry licence, granted in 2011, with no disciplinary history; the register is public and anyone can search it by name. It is the reason a JMC new build, extension or reclad is done by the person you are dealing with rather than farmed out.