What Recession? A Local Builder Says Fairfield County Remodeling Jobs Are Steady

The national news headlines might say home building is stalled and the construction trade has been slow for years, but Easton carpenter Ryan Palumbo says the recession hasn’t hurt his business. Palumbo’s 10-year-old company, Ledge Construction, has maintained a steady stream of jobs from customers in Easton, Fairfield, Monroe, and Redding who have been remodeling bathrooms and kitchens, building decks, patios, and walkways, and raising barns right through the recession.

A confessed “wannabe farmer” who bought his “little piece of heaven”—three acres in Easton—in 2005, Palumbo learned the building trade as a “wee lad” apprentice to his father Robert, owner of R.P. Construction & Sons in Fairfield. Predisposed to perfectionism and hooked on working with tools and his hands, Palumbo started his own company in 2002.

The senior Palumbo, who has spent 50-years in the home remodeling business, says the volume of his work hasn’t suffered either, but adds, “you have to be reasonable today if you want work.” The younger Palumbo laughs, “My prices were already so low, I wasn’t forced to cut them.” The two also agree that remodeling work in Fairfield County hasn’t lagged in the down economy the way new home construction has.

This summer, the father and son have teamed up to erect a barn in Easton.

You can reach Ledge Construction at 203.895.6263.