Fulton Quality Construction is a local, family-run business that has been building homes in Boundary County for 17 years now.

According to owner Tim Fulton, who moved here from California in the late ‘90s, the company specializes in residential projects but has recently broken into the commercial side of the industry.

“We’re actually branching out into commercial stuff now quite a bit,” Fulton says, referring to their projects currently underway at Elk Mountain Farms and the Alta Mill.

Rob Fulton, who is Tim’s son and also his right-hand man on the job site, explains that they are building a microprocessing plant at Elk Mountain Farms, which is now one of the largest hop farms in the world. The plant will process specialty hops, an essential ingredient for most of the microbrews in production today.

Fulton Construction, which employs 15 people full-time and works with a number of local sub-contractors, is currently working on one single-family home on Chute Canyon Road and another in Paradise Valley.

Both projects began sometime in the fall and Fulton says they will continue working on those residences throughout the winter as long as weather permits. Of course the extreme temperatures we have experienced so far this winter have made construction work difficult at times.

“Those days that were hovering around 0 degrees...we took those off,” Fulton says. “It just wasn’t worth trying to work through it.”

According to Fulton, it has been a good year for the family business and the future looks bright ahead.

“This year the homes just kept going,” he says. “We got another one started just a litle bit ahead of this one over in Paradise Valley, and we’ve got two to start with this Spring. So it’s just like a boom...we’ll keep everybody going this summer, that’s for sure.”