The job book, in photographs
Eight photographs from Mike Hall's forty two year job book.
These eight photographs are the whole of what Hall Construction has published of its own work, pulled straight from the gallery on the company's site rather than staged for this one. Some show a finished building handed over and landscaped. Others catch a job mid erection, framed but not yet skinned, or a crew still working the trim off a lift. There are no reviews stapled onto any of them. Google lists zero for this listing, and nothing here is going to invent one. What there is instead is the building itself, in the state it was actually in when the shutter went, on a metal buildings job, a metal roofing job or a piece of building maintenance.
Read them in the order Mike Hall would flip through the book sitting in the truck. A shell going up, the frame before the skin, the crew's own lift parked alongside it, the roof trusses from underneath before anyone can see them again, and a finished building at the end of the job. If any of it looks familiar, it should. It is the same crew handling metal buildings, metal roofing and building maintenance across Morgan, Limestone, Madison and Lauderdale counties.
On this page
- Photographs
- 8
- Staged for the camera
- 0
- Years behind the crew
- 42
Finished shells
Buildings photographed after handover, which is the only stage the person paying for it ever sees.
A finished tan commercial shell with a white roll-up door and a white personnel door, photographed under open sky. A completed metal buildings job, handed over and ready to use.
Brown-panel building with a double white door, mulch beds already in and an industrial park behind it. The landscaping went in last, which usually means the job is done.
A wide side elevation of a large white commercial building, one dark window breaking up the run of panel. This is what the whole side of a finished building looks like at once, not just the corner most photographs settle for.
The erection sequence
The same buildings earlier on. Frames plumbed and doors still open, before the skin goes on.
Framing stage on a light gray building, two door openings still standing open onto the structure behind them. The tree line and the road beyond are visible straight through, because nothing is hung in the openings yet.
A tan building with its personnel door already hung, a yellow man lift parked against the wall while trim and the high fasteners get finished. The lift belongs to the crew, not to a rental yard for the week.
None of these are stock photography. Every one came off a real job, built with the American made materials and the crew Hall Construction has run for over forty two years. Read more of that history on the about page, or go straight to the phone and Michael Hall answers it himself.
Clear span, from underneath
What the steel above actually looks like once you are standing inside the finished bay.
Looking straight up through an open bay door at the exposed steel roof trusses, a basketball hoop visible through the far opening. This is the clear span a metal building is built around, seen from directly underneath it before the ceiling ever closes it off.
A brown-panel building with two windows and a white utility trailer parked in front, under an overcast sky. Completed work, photographed on an ordinary day rather than a sunny one arranged for the camera.
Tan and brown panel meeting at a clean corner, photographed on a clear day after handover. The last plate in this set, and the closest thing here to what a finished Hall Construction building looks like driving past it.
That is the whole gallery, eight plates and nothing padded out to make it look bigger than it is. If your own job would add a ninth, the estimate to find out costs nothing, and neither does a visit if what you have got is a leak rather than a build.