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cust-001  ·  Carpentry & enclosure  ·  Q3 2025
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Backyard catio

A 120-square-foot screened enclosure off the rear deck. The first job Revenant carried from inquiry to invoice under the Phase 1 license.
Project lead
Andrew Selvig
Location
Wilmington, NC
Plate · before / site
Rear deck · April 2025
Looking south · 2:14p
Pre-build · ground undisturbed
Hero plate · finished
Photography pending
The finished plate — cedar frame in late light, screen taut, ceiling tongue-and-groove visible — will land here once shot.
Shoot scheduled
[TBD] · golden hour · pending owner availability
Detail plate · interior
From inside, looking up the T&G ceiling
[TBD]
Plate set · 1 of 3 shot ·  Before · Progress [TBD] · Finished [TBD]
No “after” without a real “before” · brand rule
Type
Carpentry & enclosure
Sqft
120
Duration
2 wks
Year
2025
Lead
Andrew Selvig
Location
Wilmington, NC
§ 03  ·  The story

A Saturday walk-through, two weeks of work, one taut screen.

On the public record
Scope summary, the drawings, before/after plates, owner’s field note. The contract, intake form, signed PDFs, and design-review notes are confidential customer records and stay off the page.

The owners called on a Wednesday in March. Two indoor cats, a sliding door to a rear deck that nobody used, and a sense that the yard wanted screening more than another chair. Andrew came out that Saturday, walked the deck with the cats trailing him, and quoted the job on a single sheet of paper before he left.

The build is plain enough to describe in a sentence: cedar frame, marine-grade screen, a tongue-and-groove ceiling so the underside reads finished from inside, and an existing door cut to a hinged flap the cats use on their own schedule. Foundation is direct-bury sonotubes set below the local frost line. Hardware is stainless. Nothing covers what it cannot be inspected through.

Two weeks from demolition of the old railing to the cats walking out under their own power. The first job Revenant carried from inquiry to invoice under the Phase 1 license — quoted Saturday, contracted Monday, framed by the second weekend, and finished a day ahead of the date Andrew gave them on the back of that single sheet.

§ 04 · From the drawings

The plan the trades built from.

Three sheets travel with every project from the proposal to the punch list. Hand-drawn at first, redrawn cleanly before the build starts. The set below was signed off the Monday after the walk-through.
§ 04 / 07
3 sheets · signed
17 March 2025
Sheet · 01
Site plan
Footprint relative to the rear deck, with the sonotube layout, the door-flap location, and the screen-panel module on each elevation.
Sheet · 02
Materials list
Every board, every fastener, every roll of screen. Quantities priced at cost — the same list that appears in the proposal’s line-itemed budget.
Sheet · 03
Proposal sheet
Plain-English scope, milestone dates, and the change-order policy. The sheet the owners signed before any wood was ordered.
Hand-drawn originals on file · clean set on the customer’s driveConfidential set · not shown
§ 05 · Before / after

Plain side-by-side, no slider.

The brand rule: no “after” without a real “before”. Here the before is shot; the after will land once the project is photographed properly.
§ 05 / 07
Before · ✓ shot
After · [TBD]
Before
Rear deck, looking south
11 April 2025
Owner’s phone
Finished plate · pending
The after lands here when the photo is shot — not before. Same angle, same time of day, same fence line.
Visit scheduled · [TBD]
After
[TBD project name caption]
[TBD date]
Andrew · photographer
§ 06 · Field note

From the owners.

Permission for the quote is given; attribution awaits the year-one return visit so the owner can confirm the name and the year together. Until then, the note runs as anonymous on the public record.
§ 06 / 07
Attribution · [TBD]
Quote · ✓ consented
Field note · 01
Andrew came out on a Saturday, walked the yard with the cats, quoted it honestly, and built the thing inside two weeks. The screen is taut. The cedar already looks like it has been here forever.
[TBD customer name]
Wilmington, NC · 2025 · cust-001
The customer’s consent log
Quote on the public record
Verbal, 18 May 2025.
Consented
Owner name + attribution
To confirm at year-one return visit.
[TBD]
Site / before photograph
Per intake form, signed.
Consented
Finished photograph
Visit pending owner availability.
[TBD]
Address on the public record
Per policy. City only.
Withheld
§ 07 · Process · per project

Listen. Draw. Build. Return.

The four-phase process from the home page, mapped to this one project. Year-one return is the brand promise — the only deliverable that lands after handoff.
§ 07 / 07
3 of 4 phases done
Return · due May 2026
I
Done
Listen
Mar 2025
Saturday walk-through.
II
Done
Draw
Mar 2025
Three sheets · proposal in five days.
III
Done
Build
Apr–May 2025
Framed and standing inside two weeks.
IV
Due
Return
May 2026
Year-one walk · doors, screen tension, caulk.
The year-one return is on us · brand promise · not optional
Want one of your own?

A walk-through is a Saturday, a notebook, and an honest read of the place.

The catio started here. The next project on the ledger starts the same way.