About the Team
OnlyBuilds doesn't run crews of project managers rotating through sites. It's one builder, on your job, every day — which is exactly why clients choose it.
Rodney "Rod" Harvey
Rod has spent his working life on building sites — first as a tradesman, then running his own business, then overseeing other people's projects at scale. OnlyBuilds is what happens when someone with that much perspective decides to go back to doing the work directly, instead of managing from a distance.
Rod has personally lived in ten of the homes he's built over the years — not something he leads with, but it's part of why he holds every job to the standard he does. When it's your own place, you don't cut corners.
Career
Started out doing carpentry work under a contractor's licence, then launched his own carpentry business — which he ran for 16 years.
Moved into supervising builds directly, overseeing trades and quality on site day to day.
Managed supervisors, teams, and clients across a large volume of projects — including a period as a building inspector and holding a building consultancy licence — giving him a rare, ground-to-boardroom view of what makes a build succeed or fail.
Now running OnlyBuilds solo, by choice — one or two projects at a time, on site personally, every day.
Why Only One or Two Projects
After decades of watching builds suffer from spread-thin attention, Rod built OnlyBuilds around a simple limit: take on only what he can personally be present for, every day, until it's done properly.
In Rod's Words
"Quality workmanship and hands-on leadership go hand in hand — that's the philosophy I built this company on. I remain actively involved on every project because it's the only way I can stand behind the finished result with complete confidence, knowing it has been built to the standard I expect."— Rod Harvey, Founder