JKB / Joseph Kain Builders

09/26/2026

The house on the right is currently wearing nothing but plywood. Please respect its privacy during this difficult time. 🙈
The house on the left is next. It's still got half its shingles on and it looks nervous.
Two Menasha neighbors, both roughed up by the tornado, both getting brand-new roofs from us side by side. Yes, it's Saturday. No, nobody told the crew. Let's keep it that way.
Storm damage? We have plenty of room to get you on the schedule this year.
📞 (920) 636-8418 | josephkainbuilders.com

09/25/2026

Lp ExpertFinish. Rapids Blue. A JKB and C3 Builds Colaboration. This house is coming to market soon for for some lucky new homeowner.

09/25/2026

Just wrapped this one up and we couldn't be happier with how it turned out! 🏡💙

LP SmartSide ExpertFinish in Rapids Blue, with a board and batten and lap siding combo that gives this brand-new build some serious personality. The vertical batten adds that clean, modern farmhouse character, and the lap siding keeps it classic. Put them together and you get curb appeal that stops people on the sidewalk.

And that ExpertFinish? It's factory-applied, which means a crisp, even color that's built to hold up to everything a Wisconsin winter can throw at it. 🌨️💪

Big thanks to Creative Concepts Construction for having us on this project! This beauty is hitting the market soon, so whoever gets to call it home is in for a treat. 🔑

Thinking about a fresh look for your home? Give us a call at (920) 636-8418 or send us a message, and let's talk about what's possible. 🔨

09/12/2026

Menasha, we're still here.

When that tornado came through, it didn't care how old the house was or how much it meant to the family inside it. It just took.

This roof is one of the ones we got to put back. And putting it back means more than nailing shingles over the damage and calling it a day. We opened it up, found what was hiding underneath, and fixed it right — decking, ventilation, flashing, the details nobody sees from the street but every homeowner feels the next time the weather turns.

Because a repair puts a house back the way it was. Doing it correctly leaves it better than the day the storm hit. That's the difference we're after on every single one of these.

We're rebuilding Menasha one roof, one project, one family at a time. Proud to be part of it, and proud of the crew who showed up and did the work right.

If the storm left you wondering about your own roof, call us. We'll take a look and tell you straight.

Joseph Kain Builders LLC
📞 (920) 636-8418
✉️ [email protected]
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09/08/2026

09/05/2026

25 watts of sunlight doing the work your electric bill used to.

This is a solar powered attic exhaust fan we set high on the roof, up near the ridge where the hottest air stacks up. No wiring, no breaker, no added cost to run it. Sun hits the panel, the fan pulls, and all that superheated air that’s been baking your shingles from underneath finally gets out.

Notice the panel tilts. That’s not decoration — it gets aimed at the sun angle for this roof so the fan runs hard when the attic needs it most. And look at the flashing: galvanized, woven into the shingle courses, not caulked on top and hoped for. That’s the difference between a vent and a future leak.

Anybody can nail shingles the way it was done in 1985. The contractors worth calling are the ones paying attention to what’s available now — ventilation, underlayments, flashing details, materials that actually outlast the paperwork.

A roof is a system. Doing it right means using what we’ve got today.

Getting a roof done this year? Ask your contractor what their ventilation plan is. If they don’t have one, keep calling.

Joseph Kain Builders | Wrightstown, WI | (920) 636-8418

08/22/2026

Something good is happening.

This summer, when the storm tore through the valley, I watched neighbors show up for neighbors. Nobody asked whose yard it was or who was on the clock. People grabbed what they had, showed up, and got to work — and a whole lot more got done than any one person could have done on their own.

That's the idea behind this.

Joseph Kain Builders and C3 Builds are joining forces. Two companies, one group of people who care about doing it right the first time. Working together, we can pull in more manpower, more materials, and more resources — which means more families get taken care of, and get taken care of faster.

Same craftsmanship. Same people you already know. Just a bigger toolbox and a longer reach.

If you've got storm damage, a roof that's been on the list too long, or a project you've been putting off — give either of us a call. We're ready to go to work for you.

Joe Kain — 920-636-8418 Adam Lamers — 920-378-5296

Joseph Kain Builders | C3 Builds

08/22/2026

Ever wonder why your upstairs is 15 degrees hotter than the rest of the house?

Last Tuesday we built what’s known in the trade as a “Michigan roof” — a raised ventilation deck. It’s standard practice across Michigan, and honestly, it should be standard here in Wisconsin too.

Here’s the problem it solves. A lot of older homes — especially story-and-a-halves, Cape Cods, and homes built with little to no eave overhang — have no way to ventilate the roof. There’s no soffit to pull air in, and often no real attic to vent. So heat and moisture get trapped right under the shingles with nowhere to go, except into the home.

A raised ventilation deck fixes that. After tear-off, we run sleepers up the rafters over the original decking and sheathe over the top of them. That creates a continuous air channel from a new intake at the eave straight up to the ridge vent. Cool air comes in low, hot air exhausts high, and the roof deck finally gets to breathe instead of radiating into the home.

What that means for the homeowner:

🔹 A cooler second story. That trapped heat isn’t sitting over your bedrooms anymore and radiating inward.

🔹 Longer roof life. Shingles cook from underneath when a deck runs hot. Ventilate it and you get the service life you paid for.

🔹 Less ice damming. A cold roof deck in January means less melt-and-refreeze at the eaves — a real problem in our winters.

🔹 Warranty protection. This one matters. Shingle manufacturers require proper intake and exhaust ventilation. No ventilation, no warranty. You can put a brand new roof on a home and have zero manufacturer coverage behind it. A lot of homeowners don’t find that out until they need it. Most roofers do not disclose this fact.

This isn’t a job most crews around here want to take on. They lack skills to do this properly. It doesn’t fall under easy. Twenty-seven years in this trade has taught me that the right way and the easy way are usually two different things.

If your upstairs is unbearable in the summer, or you’re getting ice dams every winter, ventilation is the culprit — and it can be solved when the roof gets replaced.

Give us a call. Happy to take a look.

📞 (920) 636-8418
📧 [email protected]

08/22/2026

Some roofs take a specialist. This one did.

Tornado dropped a tree on a very well known local entrepreneur’s home and cracked about 30 concrete tiles. Today we swapped every one of them — matched the profile and color, and left it looking like the tree never happened.

Concrete tile isn’t a shingle repair, though we do that too. You can’t tear off a section and nail down something new. Each tile gets lifted and unlocked without cracking its neighbors, and there are always a few hidden hairlines you don’t find until you’re walking the roof.

That’s the work we’re built for at Joseph Kain Builders. Most crews around here only run asphalt. We handle the roofs they pass on — concrete and clay tile, DaVinci, DECRA, Brava, standing seam metal, cedar and specialty profiles.

If the storms got your roof this season, don’t wait. Storm claims have a clock on them, and cracked tile doesn’t heal itself.

Joseph Kain Builders LLC | Wrightstown, WI
📞 (920) 636-8418