Double J Home Services LLC.

Washington insures Double J under a single workers'-comp class, interior finish carpentry, and the registered specialty is framing and rough carpentry. Together they describe a shop that handles both ends of the carpentry on a house: the structure that goes in behind the drywall and the casing, base and trim that show afterward. The state lists John Houston as a principal since 2004. Work comes mostly through referrals and repeat customers, and the shop works within about 25 miles of Spokane. That makes Double J a reasonable call for a homeowner remodeling a kitchen, finishing a basement or opening up a wall in an older Spokane or Spokane Valley house, where one carpenter can frame the change and then trim it out. It's built around residential jobs, so a large commercial framing package is a different kind of contractor's work. A homeowner who expects online booking will find the arrangement more old-fashioned: a phone call and a conversation about the job. Seasons matter for carpentry here. Framing that's open to the weather, like an addition or a new wall section on an exterior, is easiest to schedule in the dry stretch of late spring through early fall, before snow and freeze-thaw cycles make it hard to keep lumber and subfloors dry. Interior finish carpentry is a good winter project, but trim and wood flooring move with humidity, and Spokane's dry, heated winter air can open gaps later. Letting material sit in the house a while before it's installed helps.