Deck Builder in Vineland NJ | Pete's Carpentry

Meg McCormick Hoerner (00:03)
All right, welcome back to the Bridgeton Beacon. I am here today speaking on the phone with Pete Fury of Pete's Carpentry out of Vineland. Welcome, Pete. Hey, how you doing? Listen, I wanted to take a couple minutes to let our listeners hear a little bit about you and what you do and how you got started. So why don't you tell us ⁓ who you are and where you're from?

Pete's Carpentry (00:30)
My name

is Peter Fury, I'm from Vineland, been in Vineland a long time, all my life, my father and my grandfather. And ⁓ I do carpenter work. Always liked it. I liked it when I was on the farm and I decided to ⁓ do it for a living.

Meg McCormick Hoerner (00:46)
How long have you been doing carpentry for the folks of South Jersey? Twenty five. All right. That sounds like a long time to me. So tell me tell us what kind of work you do.

Pete's Carpentry (00:49)
Yeah.

I do just about anything. I do k kitchens, bathroom remodels, tiling, window replacement decks. I especially like doing decks 'cause I enjoy doing them. Anything that you happen to need done, I could do.

Meg McCormick Hoerner (01:11)
Any job big or small? Mostly. Okay. All right. And are you a one man show? Is it just you? And how do folks get a hold of you if they have something they wanna have you come out and take a look at?

Pete's Carpentry (01:22)
Well, I am a one man show, but could be a two man show if need be. And get a hold of me at my number it's eight five six three zero five four five nine eight.

Meg McCormick Hoerner (01:33)
I'm gonna ask you to repeat that for us one more time.

Pete's Carpentry (01:37)
Eight five six three zero five four five nine eight.

Meg McCormick Hoerner (01:42)
All right, four five nine eight. Sounds good. And the best way for folks to reach you is give you a call right on your cell phone.

Pete's Carpentry (01:49)
A call or a text, yes.

Meg McCormick Hoerner (01:52)
All right, that sounds great. And I know we talked a couple of minutes ago, I know you're a little bit old school. You are you are not on on the internet, correct? You're just on just reach you by the phone, right?

Pete's Carpentry (02:04)
Yeah, old time advertisement reached me by the

Meg McCormick Hoerner (02:07)
All right, well that's usually the best way to get things done and

Pete's Carpentry (02:10)
And

I wanna say I'm also wicing them in shorts.

Meg McCormick Hoerner (02:13)
Well

that that was gonna be my next question. The lawyer in me had to ask, licensed and insured, and do you mainly stick around the Cumberland County area, Bridget and Millville, Vinel?

Pete's Carpentry (02:24)
I could have been for

Meg McCormick Hoerner (02:26)
Okay, all right. So Pete Fury of Peace Carpentry and I gotta tell ya, I love your name, Peace Carpentry. Thank you. And you mentioned in the very beginning that you used to work on a farm. Where did you work? Okay, all right, great.

Pete's Carpentry (02:40)
Had a farm, we had chickens and

Meg McCormick Hoerner (02:43)
Okay, was that your family's business? What was the name of the farm? There you go. All right, Pete. Well, w I wanted to just get a little bit of ⁓ recording of you so we could get a little preview. But what I would love to do is either have you send me some photos of some work that you've done, ⁓ or I can meet you out at one of your job sites and we can talk in person and get a little face to face video. Whatever you prefer. But we like to promote

Pete's Carpentry (02:46)
Yes.

Meg McCormick Hoerner (03:13)
local businesses here on the Bridgeton Beacon and certainly hardworking twenty five year carpenter like yourself, I'm sure there's a lot of people that are that need that. I know I do, and they're hard to find. So somebody that shows up when you call and I know that's that's something that you always pride yourself on.

Pete's Carpentry (03:31)
This man.

Meg McCormick Hoerner (03:32)
All right, Pete. Well thanks for thanks for speaking to us here on the Bridget and Beacon. And ⁓ again, like I said, if you're able to send us some photos of some work that you've done, I'd love to have have it on the on our website for you. I will. All right, now Peace Carpentry, spell that for me for me. Carpentry. Pete's Carpentry. Simple, simple is the best. All right, fantastic. So Pete's Carpentry, Pete Fury here on the Bridgeton Beacon. And thanks again for joining us, Pete.

Pete's Carpentry (04:01)
Thank you.

Meg McCormick Hoerner (04:03)
All right, excellent. So what I'll do is I'll put that out and ⁓ you know, if not at all, not at all. Listen, if you are you are you able to text me some p some pictures? Why don't you send me a why don't you you send me a picture or two that you'd like us to use in our promotional material? Either a picture of yourself or or a picture of of some work that you've done. Or is this like the side of your truck, anything.

Pete's Carpentry (04:14)
I can I can say.

I could I could text you pictures. I don't wanna spit that.

Meg McCormick Hoerner (04:34)
All right. why don't you why don't you send that to me and I'll send you out a link to our first advertisement for you so you can check it out.

Pete's Carpentry (04:43)
Okay, how who do I text it to?

Meg McCormick Hoerner (04:45)
Right to this number that you called. That number? Yep. Yep. Okay. All right, Pete. I'll I'll send it to you and then what what we should do let me just turn this off here. What we