We love what we do, because hearing clients say, ”Oh my goodness, after living here for 10 years, I NEVER thought our house could look like this!!!!” ...never gets old to us.
Jared Hulcy
Company Owner
Our Company
Load Bearing Wall Pros was born from an aggregation of construction experience. If you really care, read the next few paragraphs below…….If you don’t care, just know, we are THE wall removal PROS in the United States. We are THE ORIGINAL residential structural wall removal focused company in this great nation. We do high-quality work for a fair price.
We got our start in Feb. 2007 as a custom home builder, named, “Baxter Anderson Custom Homes” (still the parent company of Load Bearing Wall Pros), in the Preston Hollow area of Dallas, Texas. After building and successfully selling several $1.2M to $1.5M spec houses, we had the unfortunate luck of finishing a $2.5M spec home right at the end of Q1 2009. By the grace of God, we finally sold the home in the middle of the sub-prime mortgage debacle in Q3 of 2009. We did hold out and sold for our asking price, but after that white-knuckle-ride, we vowed to never have that many eggs in one basket again!
We turned our focus to remodeling homes for clients, and buying/rehabbing then selling distressed residential properties. We had great success with this, but again an outside influence changed the market. As tv shows like Property Brothers and Flip or Flop really started becoming popular in 2013-2014, the distressed property market became a very popular investment. As interest in the “flipper” world skyrocketed, so did price tags on distressed houses. Every “he’s pretty handy” and “she’s got an eye for design” duo wanted a shot at riding this wave. Unprecedented amounts of money and effort flooded the rehab market making it extremely hard to even buy houses to fix. A house would come on the market and would have 3-5 cash offers in the first day.
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As a result, not being able to buy houses to fix-up proved to be a real problem. So, we scratched our heads and then put them together and realized it was time to turn the page and see what was next.
Through it all, we did emerge from the house-flipping world with one important skill: STRUCTURAL REMEDIATION & WALL REMOVAL! Our time spent remodeling rapidly expanded our knowledge of structural work. The arsenal of materials and techniques grew daily as we faced different ceiling heights, roof pitches, and framing configurations. Wall removal became our signature move. We looked for houses with bad floor plans knowing we had just the skills to completely convert the floorpan to a more desirable open concept. Curious neighbors poked their heads in wondering what all the action was… what they saw was a myriad of temporary supports, shoring material, and lots of missing sheetrock. These nosey neighbors soon became customers as they hired us to repeat the feat in their homes.
The formation of a specialized wall removal company began to seem like a possibility, but could there possibly be enough demand to create a business? In January of 2015, we decided to give it a “GO”, and years later, here we are….10,000 successful wall removals and counting!!
Jason Hulcy, Jared Hulcy, & Mario Hernandez
Brothers first, also owners of Load Bearing Wall Pros.
Load Bearing Wall Pros is owned and operated by brothers, Jason Hulcy (left), Jared Hulcy (middle), and more recently, Mario Hernandez (right). Jason, Jared, Mario have 35 years of combined experience in the construction industry. Structural challenges are the trio’s “happy place.” Jason has been described as the “Masterclass of construction” and Jared is the logistical genius that creates endless efficiency. With the addition of Mario, who had worked as the Hulcy brother’s electrician for many years remodeling, the LBWP crews were strengthened into a powerhouse of structural professionalism much akin to that of a mythological wizard. So much so, that in 2022 the PROS rented a materials testing lab to test some of their own construction techniques and in-house-designed building materials by crushing them until they failed. Watch: “CRUSH DAY”. And after 10,000+ successful walls removed since 2007, they are proud to be the pioneers in this growing industry.
Jason Hulcy
Company Owner
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"We are so proud of our contractors! We can only change the industry if we pick the right people to be on the team. We can't guarantee that you will have the perfect experience every time, because anything can happen in this world, but we will guarantee that the final product will be quality and the contractor will be held accountable to deliver as promised. If the contractor fails to do what they were contracted to do, then we will pay up to $10,000 out of our own pockets to fix the issue. We believe this is the example of true accountability and responsibility!"
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