About
Twenty years
in one valley.
Cedar & Stone has built in Marion and Polk counties since 2006. Same valley, same soils, same building department. That's not a small thing.
It started
with a bad bid.
Marcus Reyes was thirty-one, framing for someone else, watching a homeowner get handed a change order for forty-one thousand dollars in month five.
None of it was new work. It was scope the estimator had left out to win the bid — a foundation drain, a beam that was always going to be needed, a service upgrade anyone could have seen coming. The family took a second loan. The builder called it standard practice.
Cedar & Stone opened the following spring on one idea: put the whole number in front of people before they sign, then hold it. That's a harder way to bid. It means paying for preconstruction work you might not win, and it means losing jobs to whoever wrote the prettiest number. It also means that in twenty years we've never taken a client to arbitration, and ninety-four percent of what we build comes from someone who sent us a neighbour.
We've stayed deliberately small — four to six active projects, eleven people on staff, a subcontractor list that hasn't turned over much since 2014. Most of our electricians and framers have been on our jobs longer than some of our clients have owned their houses. When you have worked with the same plumber for a decade, you stop having to inspect his rough-in twice.
Two hundred and fourteen projects later, the pitch has not changed. We will tell you what it costs, we will tell you what it can't be done for, and then we will build it.
Marcus Reyes · Founder · CCB #178432
- Building in the Willamette Valley
- 20 yrs Building in the Willamette Valley
- Projects delivered since 2006
- 214 Projects delivered since 2006
- Written workmanship warranty
- 2 yr Written workmanship warranty
- Of work comes from referrals
- 94 % Of work comes from referrals
Four rules
that cost us money.
Say the number out loud
A budget you cannot check is not a budget. We price line by line, name our allowances in dollars, and tell you early when a scope has outgrown the money. The uncomfortable conversation in week two is cheaper than the one in month six.
Build the parts nobody sees
Flashing, waterproofing, ventilation, fastener schedules, the blocking behind a grab bar. These decide whether a house is fine in twenty years. Nobody photographs them and we do not cut them.
One job, one team
We run four to six projects at a time — never more. Every one has a named superintendent from excavation to punch list. Turning down work is how we protect the work we took.
Leave the site better than you found it
Broom-clean nightly, dust containment in occupied homes, the neighbours' driveway kept clear. You are living beside our work for months. That is our problem to manage, not yours.
Eleven on staff.
Four you'll meet.
No sales team, no account managers. The people who price your job are the people who build it.
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Marcus Reyes
Since 2006Founder · General Contractor
Started framing in Woodburn at nineteen and ran crews for twelve years before putting his own licence up. Still walks every job at least twice a week. If a number in your contract looks wrong, he is the one who wrote it and the one who'll explain it.
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Talia Brennan
Since 2013Preconstruction & Design Lead
Architecture school, then eight years estimating for a commercial GC. She's the reason our budgets come from real sub pricing instead of square-foot averages, and the reason a permit set leaves here without three rounds of correction letters.
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Sam Okonkwo
Since 2016Field Superintendent
Runs the site, the schedule, and the subs. Keeps a clean job — brooms out at the end of every day, containment up before demolition starts. Clients get his cell number on day one and, for better or worse, he answers it.
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Joanna Pike
Since 2019Project Manager · Client Liaison
Selections, allowances, change orders and the Friday photo set. If you are wondering when the tile decision is actually due, or what happened to the window order, Joanna already knows and has probably emailed you about it.
The list that hasn't turned over.
Framing, concrete, plumbing, electrical, HVAC, drywall, tile, cabinetry, roofing, glazing. Almost every one of these crews has been on our jobs for a decade or more, and they get paid inside fifteen days — which is why they answer when we call in July.
