This isn’t a corporate story. It’s a family one.
And like most good family stories, it involves hard work, hard times and a standard that never gets compromised.
It started in 1965 with a young Seabee who didn’t cut corners.
My dad held me in this photo about two months before he shipped out to Vietnam. He came home disabled, built a career in the window and siding business and brought me into that world at age 13.
My dad had zero tolerance for bad workmanship. Not as a policy. As a character trait. You either did it right or you did it again. There was no third option.
I didn’t know it then but that standard would follow me through my Army career, my move to Chicago afterwards, back to Michigan, through the crash of 2008 when I lost everything, and all the way to Dallas-Fort Worth Texas where ProTex Remodeling was born.
That standard is why every ProTex Remodeling installation gets done the same way — whether we’re doing replacement windows, doors or siding the whole house
The Military taught me discipline.
It also taught me that rank doesn’t equal competence
I enlisted the summer of 11th grade and shipped out right after graduating from Plymouth Salem High School in 1983. I went airborne, then special forces selection and various other specialized trainings. I served under some legends and great leaders. At one point I served under a colonel named Hugh Shelton — who later became Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
What the Army gave me wasn’t just discipline and teamwork. It gave me the ability to spot the difference between someone who knows what they’re doing and someone who just thinks that they do.
That skill has been worth more to me in this industry than any certification I’ve ever earned, including my residential builders license.
It’s why we can identify a bad installer long before they ever touch your home — and why we don’t use them.
Twenty five years of learning every corner of this industry
— the right way and the wrong way.
This is why every customer gets a free first year installation inspectionAfter the Army came Chicago. My dad and I opened Vinyl One — a small window manufacturing plant. That’s where I met Heidi. My son Aaron was born at that time. Later, we moved back to Michigan as new parents and Jordan was born. That’s when I spent years working for my dad at Affordable Window and Siding Corp in Ann Arbor, as well as some other large home improvement companies.
I learned everything during this time. Sales, installation, service and most of all, customer relationships. I learned what a perfect installation looks like and how a bad installation costs everyone involved.
This is why every ProTex Remodeling customer gets a free first year installation inspection
Then the crash of 2008 happened……..
I lost almost everything. The house, the job, the money and even my self respect, it was all gone. When I say I lost almost everything, I mean almost everything. There are not many feelings worse than starting all over at 43 years old with nothing except the skills you’ve learned over the years. And so, the family and I moved to the great state of Texas, and that’s exactly what we did.
Losing almost everything taught me exactly what a home means to people ProTex Remodeling will never treat your home carelessly
The $2,000,000 lesson that built ProTex Remodeling
I came to Texas and ran a successful installed sales program for Alside for two years. Then Renewal by Andersen made me an offer I couldn’t refuse. I found out quickly why that offer was so good.
Little did I know, they had over two million dollars worth of completed jobs that hadn’t been collected — because the installations were so bad that customers refused to pay. Bad product. Bad management. Bad installers. Every failure you can imagine, I walked straight into the hornets nest.
My job was to fix it. All of it.
That experience taught me everything I needed to know about what to do, but more importantly what not to do. My time at RbA, drew a permanent line in my mind between what this industry should be and what it too often is. I made a list of every mistake I saw. Every shortcut. Every excuse. Every customer who got taken advantaged of. I was a participant in a story that I had seen so many times before from the outside. I knew that it was now my turn to transform how this industry does business.
ProTex Remodeling was built on the other side of that line to make sure that those mistakes never happen to you
We didn’t come to Texas to build a company
We came here to build the best company
Heidi has been beside me through all of it. The good years in Michigan. The year we lost everything. The fresh start in Fort Worth.
Corporate America has no patience for someone who has spent 25 years being self employed and who refuses to compromise on quality. So ProTex Remodeling was inevitable.
We are not the biggest window and siding company in Dallas-Fort Worth but we strive to be the best. You can see our work on YouTube@ProTexTV
We’re building a company that people can call for generations to come and never worry about bad contractors again.
We’re building something bigger than a business
This is the future of ProTex Remodeling
My granddaughters are going to grow up knowing that their grandfather built something with his hands and his name on it that he was never ashamed of, and he built it for them.
Every job we do is someone’s home. Someone’s biggest investment. Someone’s family living inside those walls.
When our crew pulls away on the last day of every job. I want the homeowner standing in their driveway thinking one thing:
“Wow, they did way more than we ever expected.”
That’s the standard. Every job. No exceptions.
So — are we the right fit for you?
We are the right fit if you value quality over speed, understand that the lowest price is rarely the best decision and want a contractor who shows up when they say they will and stands behind every project they complete.
We are not the right fit if you are shopping for the cheapest bid. We lose jobs every week to cheaper competitors. We are completely okay with that — because sooner or later we get the call to fix what the cheap guy screwed up. If you want to understand exactly what drives our pricing and why the
lowest bid rarely protects your home, visit our window pricing calculator and find out.
I have been in this industry since 1978. I have seen every mistake that can be made. We’re building ProTex Remodeling so that our customers never have to experience any of those costly mistakes.
If ProTex Remodeling sounds like the contractor you have been looking for —click the button below and welcome to the family
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