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Commercial Wood Framing · 50+ Years of Experience

North Carolina’sLarge-ScaleWood FramingContractor

Podium multifamily, commercial, and heavy timber — self-performed end to end: our crews, our cranes, our riggers, from first plate to topped out.

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S-01 · Raleigh, NC · 35.78°N 78.64°W

FineLine at a glance

50+ yrs
Experience
2008
FineLine founded
$3M
GL + WC insured
Triangle
+ the Carolinas

Topped out — 50+ years — Raleigh, NC — plate to ridge.

S-03Position

The buildings are getting bigger.The wood is still wood.The crew matters.

FineLine frames turnkey — multifamily, commercial, glulam and heavy timber, exterior trim, and labor-only crews when that is what the job calls for. We self-perform, plate to ridge: our crews, our cranes, our riggers. No piecemeal subs, no handoffs, and safety as the highest priority on every deck.

S-03.1Framing Sequence

Plans to Built

A framing sequence in three illustrative frames, annotated like a drawing sheet: a roof truss flown by tower crane onto a five-over-one podium building; the framing deck inside the shell, with a two-by stud wall, floor joists on hangers and chalk-line layout on the subfloor; and a connection detail — a post base bracket bolted to an anchor in the slab beside a pressure-treated sill plate on its anchor bolt. The three frames are illustrative images, not photographs of a named project. Every callout is a typical, not a project figure. The dimension buttons on each frame report their member callouts.

01Framing elevation — TYP.×1
Roof truss flown by a tower crane onto a five-over-one podium building mid-framing, wood-framed levels stacked over a concrete podium — illustrative image.
Roof truss set by tower crane — TYP.
Concrete podium transfer level — TYP.

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Five-over-one podium: concrete transfer level, wood-framed levels above, a roof truss still on the hook.

02Framing deck — TYP.×3.4
Inside a wood-framed floor: a 2× stud wall with OSB sheathing, floor joists hung off the beam line on metal hangers, and blue chalk-line layout snapped across the subfloor — illustrative image.
2× stud wall @ 16" O.C. — TYP.
Joist hanger at the beam line — TYP.

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Inside the shell: 2× stud wall, joists hung off the beam line, chalk-line layout snapped on the subfloor.

03Connection detail — TYP.×10
Close-up of a galvanised post base bracket bolted through a wood post to an anchor in the concrete slab, beside a nut and washer on a pressure-treated sill plate — illustrative image.
Post base connection — TYP.
P.T. sill plate w/ anchor bolt — TYP.

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Where the load actually lands: a post base bolted to a slab anchor, next to the sill plate's anchor bolt.

Drone view of the St. Albans jobsite in Raleigh: exposed wood stud framing with fire-retardant sheathing rising under a tower crane — the built counterpart of the framing sequence.

From the plans up — every sheet, every stick, in-house.

All three frames · Mag ×1 / ×3.4 / ×10Sheet S-03.1 · Scale NTS · Media: V1–V3 illustrative
01Framing elevation — TYP.×1
02Framing deck — TYP.×3.4
03Connection detail — TYP.×10

S-04Case Files

Selected Work

Drone view of the West End jobsite in Raleigh: wood framing with orange fire-retardant sheathing rising from a concrete podium under a tower crane, rail corridor in the foreground.

Multifamily framing over a concrete podium beside the rail corridor — fire-retardant sheathing at the exterior, floors cycling under a tower crane.

Type
Podium multifamily
Scope
Turnkey framing
Levels
Spec pending
Units
Spec pending

Podium MultifamilyTower CraneRaleigh NC

Aerial view of West End framing in progress: open floor decks and stud walls over the podium, crews and material staged across the deck.

Drone view of the St. Albans jobsite: wood-framed building with fire-retardant sheathing under a tower crane, wrapped sister building beyond and the Raleigh skyline on the horizon.

A multi-building multifamily site framed in phases — one building dried in and wrapped while the next tops out under the crane.

Type
Multifamily
Scope
Turnkey framing
Buildings
Spec pending
Units
Spec pending

MultifamilyTower CraneMulti-Building

Aerial view of St. Albans phased construction: a dried-in building in white wrap in front of a second building still in orange framing under the tower crane.
Top-down drone view of St. Albans framing: floor decks, framed walls, and the tower crane jib crossing the building footprint.
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S-05Capabilities

What we frame

  1. Turnkey Multifamily Framing

    Podium and wrap projects self-performed end to end — layout, walls, floors, trusses, dry-in.

    Lead trade

  2. Commercial Framing

    Offices, churches, clubhouses, and mixed-use shells framed to schedule for general contractors.

    GC-ready

  3. Glulam & Heavy Timber

    Engineered beams and exposed heavy-timber structure set with the same crews that frame the building.

    StructuralDetail Sheet D-01→

  4. Labor-Only Crews

    Seasoned framing labor under your supervision when the project calls for manpower, not a package.

    Flexible

  5. Exterior Trim

    Cornice, soffit, and exterior finish carpentry closed out while the frame is still our responsibility.

    Finish

  6. Custom Residential

    Select custom homes, taken on when the fit is right.

    By selection

S-05.1The Method

How we deliver

Processes and systems are the key to our track record — attention to detail from the first sheet to the last lift.

  1. Drawing Scrub

    Extensive drawing scrubbing before mobilization — we find the problems on paper, so they never cost you time on the deck.

    Followed by a thorough RFI list, so once we start, we don't stop.

  2. On-Site Management

    Company-controlled crews under FineLine on-site management.

  3. Prefabrication

    Prefabricated wall components, built on- or off-site as the job demands.

  4. Crane & Rigging

    In-house crane operators, with FineLine-trained riggers and equipment operators certified through third-party safety training.

Fig. 01 — Client photography to follow
Fig. 02 — Client photography to follow

  1. Logistics

    Logistical solutions for any site condition.

  2. MEP Coordination

    We work alongside MEP trade partners — the frame goes up coordinated, not corrected.

  3. Envelope

    Trained weather-barrier and window installers.

The goal on every job: deliver ahead of schedule at the highest quality.

Assurance

Insured

$3M general liability + workers' comp. Safety is the first line item, not the last.

Self-Perform

Crews, cranes, riggers — ours. One standard from first plate to topped out.

Response

Bid inquiries returned the same day. 919-761-5279.

S-06.1Word on Site

What the site says

Testimonials in collection — GCs, trade partners, and safety professionals.

  • General ContractorsQuote pending Attribution to follow
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  • Safety ProfessionalsQuote pending Attribution to follow
FineLine crew framing stud walls on an upper floor deck, with the downtown Raleigh skyline and a crawler crane in the distance.
On the deck · Raleigh NC

S-07About

The Outfit

John “Buck” Smith founded FineLine Construction in Raleigh in 2008 — and kept the thing that makes a frame go up straight and on schedule: crews that answer to the company, not to a broker. Fifty-plus years of framing experience ride on those decks — now under tower cranes on podium multifamily jobs across the Triangle.

The name is the standard: on every set of drawings there is a fine line between planned and built. Holding it is the job. The original FineLine — the real fine line — is the one our crews walk every day, plate to ridge.

50+ yrs
Experience on the frame
2008
FineLine founded, Raleigh
Today
Topping out across the Triangle
Fig. 03 — Client photography to follow
Fig. 04 — Client photography to follow

S-08Service Area

Service Area

Mobilized from Raleigh, NC · 35.78°N 78.64°W

RaleighDurhamChapel HillWake ForestCaryApexThe TriangleThe Carolinas

S-09Contact

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919-761-5279

Inquiries returned same day. Plans, specs, and schedules welcome — we bid from real documents.

We don’t try to frame the whole East Coast — what we do is done right the first time.

Raleigh, NC · 35.78°N 78.64°W

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