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I started doing residential contracting part-time (way back, haha) in 1996.\u00a0 I sat for (and passed) my West Virginia Contractors Exam in 1997 and from there things took off.\u00a0\u00a0 We remodeled bathrooms, kitchens and refreshed the look of houses with vinyl siding. The list goes on and on. Two of the most interesting projects that come to my mind are these.\u00a0\u00a0 The first project was a 1930\u2019s WPA spec house.\u00a0 The interior of the house was plaster and the customer wanted to insulate the house.\u00a0 They had spoken with a number of companies and everyone wanted to blow in insulation.\u00a0 Most of the time that only worked part of the time when doing this on an existing house as the insulation does not fill the wall cavity completely.\u00a0 The idea I came up with was to strip the exterior of the house off, insulate it from the outside, and then re-sheet and put new siding on the house.\u00a0 The other project was when I remodeled a house built in 1923.\u00a0 This house has the original knob and tube wire still in when I started.\u00a0 We completely gutted the house (electrical, plumbing, plaster, everything down to the studs) and rebuilt.\u00a0 In 1923, a 2×4 was really 2\u201d x 4\u201d,\u00a0 so you can only imagine the issues.\u00a0 It was fun.<\/p>\n
I did take a break from contracting and construction for a few years and pursued my other passion, IT.\u00a0 I was able to work for a small book company called Amazon.com, for 14 years.\u00a0 Then I worked in IT supporting higher education.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Even when I was working in IT, I would always find time for a construction project.\u00a0 Whether it was putting hardwood floors throughout my house, remodeling a bathroom or basement.\u00a0 These smaller projects were what kept me going and kept my passion alive.<\/p>\n
In 2019 my family and I were afforded the opportunity to move to East Tennessee and we love it here.\u00a0 Having spent a good amount of time in the Fountain City, Halls, and Powell areas growing up and visiting family, I always knew I wanted to live close to the mountains.\u00a0 When we moved here and started doing work around the house, it rekindled the drive to get back into contracting and construction.\u00a0 With the support of my family, we took a chance and started BentNail.<\/p>\n
It has just been a roller coaster ride since it started, and in the best way since I love to ride roller coasters.\u00a0 I have been able to help people with ideas and problems while doing what I truly enjoy.\u00a0 Life is really good!\u00a0 I\u2019m not saying there are no frustrating days, there are.\u00a0 But looking at things as a whole, it\u2019s always a great day at Bent Nail!<\/p>\n
-Lee Ruble<\/em> \n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Lora|600|||||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_orientation=”center” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Tennessee Home Inspection License #2230<\/a> [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Bit About Bent NailI started doing residential contracting part-time (way back, haha) in 1996.\u00a0 I sat for (and passed) my West Virginia Contractors Exam in 1997 and from there things took off.\u00a0\u00a0 We remodeled bathrooms, kitchens and refreshed the look of houses with vinyl siding. The list goes on and on. Two of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentnailtn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentnailtn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentnailtn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentnailtn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentnailtn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bentnailtn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4076,"href":"https:\/\/bentnailtn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/401\/revisions\/4076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentnailtn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Owner of BentNail and Certified Home Inspector<\/em><\/p>\nState and National Certifications and Licenses<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
National Radon Proficiency Program (NRPP) # 111871-RT<\/a><\/p>\n