The people who turn up
Ten people run this company. Every trade has a named lead who is accountable for the work in it, and dispatch has a named lead because someone has to own the arrival window.
17 years with Cedarline
Aaron Prentice
Owner
Aaron has been with the company since the first van, working alongside his father who founded it in 2009. He came up through framing and remodelling before taking over the business in 2019. He still walks every addition and every structural repair before the crew starts.
Aaron is the second generation. His father started Cedarline in 2009 with one van and a framing crew, and Aaron worked out of that van through his twenties before running the construction side and then the company.
He signs off every home addition and every structural repair personally, which is slower than delegating it and is the reason the construction schedule is honest. He is the person who decided the company would publish its prices, its hours and its refusals rather than make customers ask.
Holds
- NC General Contractor, qualifying party
- EPA Lead-Safe Renovator
- OSHA 30 construction safety
9 years with Cedarline
Lena Marchetti
General Manager
Lena runs the business side: scheduling policy, warranty claims, invoicing and the standards every crew is held to. She spent eleven years managing a regional roofing supplier before joining Cedarline in 2017. If a job has gone wrong, she is the person who calls you back.
Lena joined in 2017 from the supply side of the trade, which means she knew what every material on every quote actually costs before she ever wrote one.
She owns the warranty process and the complaint process. When a job has gone wrong, the call comes back to her rather than to the crew that did it, because a crew grading its own work is not a process. Our warranty terms are written the way she answers the phone: the limit first, then the reason.
Holds
- NC Real Estate Commission continuing education instructor
- OSHA 30 construction safety
Writes: A seasonal home maintenance calendar for the Triangle
HVAC9 years with Cedarline
Dana Whitfield
Service Manager and HVAC Lead
Dana runs the three HVAC crews and sets the standard every service call is measured against. She started as an apprentice on commercial rooftop units, moved to residential in 2017, and now trains every new technician who joins Cedarline. She writes most of our HVAC advice.
Dana manages the service side of the business and leads the HVAC crews, which is one job rather than two: cooling and heating calls are most of what dispatch handles in a Triangle summer and a Triangle January.
She came out of commercial rooftop work, where a failed unit closes a building, and she brought the diagnostic discipline with her. Every new technician spends their first fortnight riding with her before they are trusted with a service call of their own.
Holds
- EPA 608 Universal
- NATE certified, air conditioning and heat pumps
- NC HVAC licence, qualifying technician
Writes: When to repair your AC and when to replace it, What a maintenance visit actually covers
6 years with Cedarline
Curtis Boyd
Dispatch Lead
Curtis decides who goes where, in what order, and he is the reason the arrival window on this site is a real number. He spent four years as an emergency dispatcher before moving into the trades. He would rather tell you the crew is running late than let you find out yourself.
Curtis came from emergency dispatch, where the job is triage under pressure with incomplete information, which turns out to describe a Triangle August on the HVAC board fairly well.
He owns the arrival windows. If a crew is running behind, you get a call before the window closes rather than after, and if a job is genuinely an emergency he moves the board rather than adding you to the end of it. What counts as an emergency, and what does not, is published on our emergency page so nobody has to argue about it at the door.
Holds
- NC certified emergency telecommunicator
- OSHA 10 general industry
ROOF12 years with Cedarline
Tomás Reyes
Roofing Lead
Tomás has led the roofing crews since 2014 and has walked more Triangle roofs after a hailstorm than anyone else here. He does most of our insurance documentation surveys personally. He is one of the Spanish-speaking technicians on the weekday roster.
Tomás runs the roofing crews and does the photographic surveys that go to an adjuster on a storm damage claim. He is deliberate about that work because an adjuster reads photographs, not adjectives, and a roof plane that was not documented is a roof plane that was not paid for.
He is also the person who will tell you a roof has years left in it when a competitor has told you it needs replacing. That conversation costs us a job roughly once a month and it is the correct conversation to have.
Holds
- HAAG certified residential roof inspector
- Manufacturer certified shingle installer, architectural systems
- OSHA 30 construction safety, fall protection competent person
Writes: How a storm damage insurance claim actually works, Five signs of a roof leak before it reaches the ceiling
BUILD5 years with Cedarline
Priya Raghunathan
Construction Lead and Project Estimator
Priya estimates and runs the remodelling and addition work: kitchens, bathrooms, basements and additions. She trained as a structural engineer and spent eight years in commercial project management before moving to residential in 2021. Her estimates are long because they are itemised.
Priya writes the estimates for every remodel and addition and then runs the job she quoted, which is unusual and is the whole reason the dates hold.
Her engineering background shows up most in the structural work: she is the one who decides whether a wall can come out and what has to replace it. She is also the person who tells you, at the first visit, that a permit and an inspection will add weeks before anybody swings a hammer, because the alternative is telling you in week three.
Holds
- NC General Contractor, unlimited residential classification
- Certified Graduate Remodeler
- OSHA 30 construction safety
Writes: Permit timelines in Wake County, and why your job has not started, What a kitchen remodel really costs in the Triangle
CARP14 years with Cedarline
Walter Hendricks
Carpentry Lead
Walt runs the carpentry crew and the shop where the cabinetry and built-ins are made. He has been a carpenter since the late 1970s and joined Cedarline in 2012 after his own shop closed. He is the last word on anything that has to fit an old house.
Walt has been a carpenter since the late 1970s and ran his own shop for two decades before joining us in 2012. The cabinetry and built-ins are made in our shop rather than ordered in, and that is his shop.
He is the person we send to a 1940s house where nothing is plumb, nothing is square and the trim profile has not been milled since Eisenhower. He is unhurried about it, and he is also training two apprentices, which matters more than anything else on this list.
Holds
- Journeyman carpenter, 40 years in the trade
- Certified Aging-in-Place Specialist
- OSHA 10 construction safety
OUTDOOR7 years with Cedarline
Darnell Jessup
Outdoor Lead
Darnell runs the outdoor crews: decks, patios, fencing, lawn programmes and irrigation. He studied turfgrass science at NC State and worked on golf course grounds before moving to residential work in 2019. He is the reason our lawn programme is a schedule rather than a subscription.
Darnell came out of turfgrass science and golf course grounds, which is why the lawn programme is built around what fescue actually does in Piedmont clay in July rather than around a generic four-visit calendar.
He also runs the hardscape crews. Decks and patios in this climate live or die on what happens below the surface, so he is unmovable about base preparation and drainage, and he will tell you when the ground has to dry out before the work can start.
Holds
- NC Pesticide Applicator, ornamental and turf
- Irrigation Association certified irrigation technician
- ICPI concrete paver installer
Writes: Choosing decking material for North Carolina humidity, Winterising an irrigation system in the Triangle
PLUMB4 years with Cedarline
Sean Ferriday
Plumbing Lead
Sean leads the plumbing crews and handles the gas work. He served a five-year apprenticeship in Belfast, worked a decade in Charlotte, and joined Cedarline in 2022. He is the person who insists on a camera in the line before anyone quotes a dig.
Sean served his apprenticeship in Belfast and spent a decade in Charlotte before joining us in 2022. He runs the plumbing crews and personally handles the gas line work, which is the part of the trade where being nearly right is not a category.
His standing rule is that nobody quotes a dig without putting a camera in the line first. Roots in a clay lateral and a collapsed section look identical from the kitchen sink and cost very different amounts to fix.
Holds
- NC Plumbing licence, qualifying technician
- Backflow prevention assembly tester
- Medical gas installer, lapsed
ELEC3 years with Cedarline
Nathan Kwon
Electrical Lead
Nathan leads the electrical crew and is the youngest lead here. He finished his apprenticeship in 2020, spent two years on new residential construction, and joined Cedarline in 2023. He brought the thermal camera that now goes on every safety inspection.
Nathan joined in 2023 from new residential construction and is the youngest lead in the company. He runs the electrical crew and did most of the work to get us set up properly for EV charger installations.
The thermal camera on every safety inspection was his idea. A loose lug on a breaker looks perfectly normal with the dead front off and shows up immediately under load on an infrared image, which is the difference between finding a fault and finding a fire.
Holds
- NC Electrical licence, qualifying technician
- Certified EV charging infrastructure installer
- Infrared thermography level 1
Writes: Why your breaker keeps tripping, When a panel upgrade is actually required
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