Matt Kinnee | Site Super

Working site super, 30+ yrs. Ran my own GC 25 of them. Real lessons on building, planning and running better sites. Author: The First-Time Superintendent ↓

[Matt Kinnee | Site Super @KinneeSiteTools]

Figured I should introduce myself.

I'm Matt. Started on job sites at 15 working for my dad, who was a lead hand and super. Spent a few years building spec homes, a couple on commercial and high-rise, then opened my own company in 2001 and ran it for 25 years.

Lost my dad a couple years back and stepped away from running the business. Now I'm a superintendent on a friend's job here in Victoria.

I post about what actually makes or breaks a job: getting the area ready the day before, trades showing up to work instead of wait, pours, inspections, crane days, and the mistakes I made so you don't have to.

Ask me anything.

[Matt Kinnee | Site Super @KinneeSiteTools]

If you can't tell me what's happening at 7am tomorrow, you're not done today

[Matt Kinnee | Site Super @KinneeSiteTools]

@BuildingChi Infill downtown between existing buildings, the super on that one's going to earn his money. Deliveries, crane swing over the neighbours, shoring next to those old walls

[Matt Kinnee | Site Super @KinneeSiteTools]

@MrPitbull07 The money's real but so is ladder work on a two storey in November rain. One fall and the season's over. Sort out the safety side before you chase that number

[Matt Kinnee | Site Super @KinneeSiteTools]

@Zainpd Every super learns this one the hard way. More guys on a site that isn't ready is just more guys standing around. Fix the sequence first

[Matt Kinnee | Site Super @KinneeSiteTools]

@Watchman_motto Floorboards scribed right into the old brick by hand. Nobody does that anymore, nice work!

[Matt Kinnee | Site Super @KinneeSiteTools]

@TannerBuilds Light and hooks built right into the tile, that's clever. Just hope nobody ever has to get at the wiring behind that light lol

[Matt Kinnee | Site Super @KinneeSiteTools]

@Watchman_motto And real solid doors too. New builds went hollow core and open concept and lost all that

[Matt Kinnee | Site Super @KinneeSiteTools]

@TannerBuilds 10 on the dot, that's a plant worth hanging onto lol

[Matt Kinnee | Site Super @KinneeSiteTools]

@ThisOldHouse @RbACorp @PBS @TheRokuChannel Demo day's where the real budget gets decided. Old wiring, asbestos, rotten wood behind the plaster is always one of the first surprises

[Matt Kinnee | Site Super @KinneeSiteTools]

@DannyMagazu That's the business right there. Same in contracting, the best jobs come from the last client

[Matt Kinnee | Site Super @KinneeSiteTools]

@BlueCollarInvr Showing up when you said you would wins more work than any ad ever will. Glad it paid off

[Matt Kinnee | Site Super @KinneeSiteTools]

@1000yearhouse Agree. Same goes for the stuff nobody sees. Honest building is the framing and flashing nobody's ever going to look at again

[Matt Kinnee | Site Super @KinneeSiteTools]

@TheFortressInc Good to see somebody actually sand those swollen edges instead of laying right over them. Those ridges show through the floor later if you don't

[Matt Kinnee | Site Super @KinneeSiteTools]

@CollinJHumphrey Doing it in the framing is the right call. Trying to make it up with mud later never ends well. Agree on the size thing too, small shower with no curb and the water finds the hallway

[Matt Kinnee | Site Super @KinneeSiteTools]

@HakujinLLC Can't blame you. New construction you know what you're getting, remodel you find out as you go

[Matt Kinnee | Site Super @KinneeSiteTools]

@JonFraserTF They are out there. Glad it worked out for ya. Those are the ones to keep around.

[Matt Kinnee | Site Super @KinneeSiteTools]

Throwback to a reno we did on a 1949 bungalow down by the Gorge. Kitchen doubled in size and the windows went where the backsplash would normally be so they could look out at the garden. We built it. @sprucevictoria wrote it up https://t.co/gSKsYtknNI