Local Central Coast builder Mark Whitfield has been building dream homes in the Central Coast for over 16 years. Already a successful business owner, Mark brings with him a formidable team of trades and a proven track record of high-quality work. He is now excited to join Stroud Homes and together with his wife Vanessa brings their clients award-winning home designs along with the quality service and reliability they are so well known for in the area.
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Mark: Hi, my name’s Mark. I’m a local builder on the Central Coast. My experience-wise has mainly been in the commercial realm doing commercial fit-outs for retail clients nationally. Worked all over Australia. About nine years ago started my own commercial company and it went really, really well, but recently decided to move into the residential realm where we wanna be able to build beautiful homes for the people of Central Coast.
Vanessa: In the commercial realm, there’s been a lot of travel and we’ve now got a young family, so we wanted to find something that we could do that was locally and be able to spend more time together and enjoy that. Something we can build for our kids’ future.
Having hundreds of designs to choose from really makes it easy to talk with clients and find something close to what they’re after. Being able to customise takes it to the next level, puts us apart from other people and makes us be able to create their dream. Being able to reach out to some of the other teams, if you have seen something that you like that they’ve done or being able to contact one of the team head office as well, they’re always there to help. It’s very easy to be able to create what you’re after.
Mark: Coming from my previous experience there’s a lot of out of hours work, etc., etc., for quoting, pricing, estimating, everything that has to take place behind the scenes to be able to do commercial work or residential or just construction work in general. There are systems that are in place really automates the company in a lot of ways, so it gives us a lot more free time after hours, and we get that work/life balance a lot better.
Vanessa: And I’ve seen a big difference when we welcomed our daughter a year and a half ago. Whilst the beginning he was still on the tools a lot, but now being able to go to and from an office that’s local, he’s been able to be a lot more a part of her life. And also being more able to reconnect with our son. So there’s been a big difference in their relationship, so it’s been really good.
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