| 69 T T Hugh de Lacy Bulging order-book no sweat for Haydn With the acquisition of Rod Douglas Construction, Haydn acquired all the designs that company had developed over the years. Hammer Time Contracting CONTRACTING Being the only builder of half-round shed-housing north of Auckland, as well as operating a busy roofing service, Whangarei company Hammer Time Contracting has entered 2024 with a bulging order-book thanks to the rapid population growth in Northland. With a staff of six, Hammer Time does roofing, roof repairs, re-roofing re-roofing while meeting strong demand for its halfround barns that are used for everything from housing to boatsheds and storage units, light industrial buildings and equipment stores. Another main aspect of Hammer Time Contracting’s builds are shed-houses. These are large wooden gable or mono-pitch sheds which incorporate a house within them with top-of-the-line products custom-built to clients’ needs. Hammer Time Contracting acquired the barn designs when four years ago owner Haydn Tomason bought his father, Ivan Tomason, out of a company called Rod Douglas Construction that Ivan had owned and operated for 32 years. With the acquisition of Rod Douglas Construction, which had been operating since 1965, Haydn acquired all the designs that company had developed over the years for a range of barns, especially half-round ones, as well as all its equipment. Hammer Time’s roofing work is carried out mostly around Whangarei, while the demand for the half-round barns has lately seen the company working from Kaitaia and Wellsford to the Coromandel and Great Barrier Island. “Timber’s our game,” Haydn Tomason says of his company’s barn-building which involves a range of designs of which the wooden gables are a specialty. He says Hammer Time handles jobs big and small, along with emergency work no less than projects both standard and complex. The company’s staff includes licensed building practitioners (LBPs), and staff training includes health and safety, especially in relation to working at heights. Haydn’s been in the building game since he left high school at 16 and went straight into a building apprenticeship with local company Sunshine Homes. He was just 20 when he came out of his time, and set off across the Tasman for four and a half years of highly varied overseas experience in the remotest parts of Australia. He worked on building and roofing projects in the Northern Territory, welded camel cages and built structures on islands in the Gulf of Carpentaria. Haydn returned to New Zealand in 2013, and worked for his brother Jake Tomason for six months at Apex Roof and Cladding, the biggest company of its kind north of Auckland. But though the brothers work in the same Northland market, Haydn says they’re not really competitors. “We don’t even cross paths: we’ve both got heaps of work on because our parents were in the industry so long and, as a result, we know a lot of people,” Haydn says. He’s accordingly putting in bids for a couple of extra big shed-building contracts that could see him expand his staff and business this year. “This is all underwritten by the big flow of people out of Auckland and up into Whangarei and Northland, which shows no sign of slowing,” Haydn says. 40 Whangārei’s Trusted Roofing Manufacturers. 09 430 7570 www.freemanroofing.co.nz whangarei@freemanroofing.co.nz 112 Port Rd, Port Whangarei 0110 We are manufacturers of quality steel rainwater, roof and wall cladding products and are the first choice for builders and roofing contractors when it comes to supplying quality roofing materials. • New Roofs • Re-Roofs • Alpine Tray • Flashings • Corrugate • Commercial • Clearlite • Polycarbonate PRODUCTS & SERVICES INCLUDE:
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