John J. Castle General Contractor, Inc.

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John J. Castle, General Contractor, is a full service Custom Home Builder serving customers in Blair,

- Home Planning & Design
- Custom Home Building
- Additions
- Interior Design

08/22/2026

To say I was born with custom home building in my blood would be an understatement! With now over 40 years of true hands on experience in the custom home building business I still enjoy every aspect of the process from the custom design phase to the last finish nail in the last piece of trim! Those who know me know one thing that will never change is my attention to every little detail!!

In June of 1986 fresh out of Vo-Tech followed by trade school in Williamsport Pa I was hired by one of the area’s premier home builders Harkless and DeBiase developers of the Stonehenge development!

In my 4 1/2 years of employment there they certainly guided me in the right direction. Just 3 years in to my employment Dave DeBiase had all the confidence in me to have me doing the trim work/casework installation in his own personal custom home being built at the time. Trim work has always been a favorite for me and never gets old! Following that in 1989 at just over 22 years old I was for the first time put in charge on my first Harkless and DeBiase custom home from start to finish! A one story with a full custom frame roof for Dr. Jeff and Vickie Binney! The homeowners after meeting me for the first time had there concerns given my age but again Dave DeBiase who had all the confidence in myself again assured the homeowners that they had the right person in charge on the job!!

In late 1990 after 4 1/2 years of employment I left to pursue a self employment career in the custom home building business. After now more than 40 years in the business almost 36 self employed I can definitely relate my success in the business early on to my first employment in custom home building and the guidance given towards quality in every aspect of the custom home building business!!

Let my more than more than 40 years experience in the custom home building business work for you at John J Castle General Contractor Inc.
As long as I am in this business I will always be a hands on tradesman!
There’s nothing else I would rather be doing!

Except for maybe a little running on the weekends!!!! 🏃🏽‍♂️

08/20/2026

Final inspection with occupancy permit received today on the latest John J Castle Custom Home. A full post with additional photos to follow!

05/28/2026

As the sun sets over the Scotch Valley Country Club the next John J Castle Custom Home 🏠 has started with site prep completed and foundation work set to begin tomorrow at sunrise! 🌅

03/26/2026

The exterior stone veneer continues to make good progress on the latest John J Castle Custom Home with the favorable weather conditions continuing here in March!

The look of stone veneer has changed forever with the now availability of natural stone over manufactured stone!

Ollinger Brothers in Hollidaysburg now carries a large selection of natural stone for all your stones veneer needs!

03/19/2026

With the long awaited break in what seemed like a never ending winter the natural stone veneer has started on the most recent John J Castle custom home while mechanical rough in’s continue on the interior.

09/17/2025

With the favorable weather conditions continuing this latest John J Castle Custom Home continues to take shape with the roof trusses set this week. This one story custom build offers some unique features such as vaulted ceilings with beams in both the kitchen/family room and the 4 season sunroom. More details as this latest John J Castle custom home continues to progress.

08/24/2025

There’s was never any doubt since the young age of 6 what my career choice would be. Ever since my cabin building days started in second grade I knew I would be in the building business as a hands on carpenter. Every week I would take my 2 dollar weekly allowance and walk 6 blocks to the local hardware store (Sutters Hardware)to buy whatever 2 dollars would buy me in nails!

I recently had an interesting as well as disturbing conversation with a 20 year old young man. He told me as a freshman at a local high school he was considering career options and wanted to tour the Altoona Career And Technology Center to explore career opportunities. He went to speak to the high school guidance counselor who told him the school could not give him approval to attend which was a requirement by the GACTC!! He was told his GPA was too high and would need to pursue a career in college education!!! He didn’t have a set career path but only wanted again to explore opportunities something very few young kids even think about at that point of there life and wasn’t even given the chance!!! Fortunately he is a very motivated young man with a superior work ethic and will do well in wherever his college education takes him. If I had been told the same thing at that same point of my life I would have had a few choice words for the high school guidance counselor!!
I followed up my high school training with 2 years of trade school training at the Williamsport Area Community College Now Pensylvania College of Technology. Upon Graduation I started my career in the custom home building industry with one of the top custom home builders in the area Harkless and DeBiase and eventually was self employed by 1990! After more than 35 years of self employment and nearly 40 years total in the business I still strap on a tool belt daily scale roofs trusses 30-40’ off the ground and do what I’ve love to do all my life!!

Society has everyone focused on a college degree in order to make anything of yourself!! Fortunately I was not told what I had to do and choose my own career path at such a young age!! The building trades alone across the board are a dying profession and have been for some time. Without us low intelligent workers in the building trades who is going to build all these fancy College Campuses, Doctors and Engineers offices as well as these fancy homes/vacation homes for business executives in the future?? We are the last generation of a dying breed with so few that have followed in our footsteps behind us!! College education isn’t for everyone!!!

08/05/2025

The most recent John J Castle Custom Home is beginning to take shape. The single story 2480 square feet open floor plan with additional features including a vaulted kitchen/family room as well as a vaulted 4 season room both with wood beams just to name a few. Special credits go out to Hannah Edwards for working with the homeowners on the interior finishes and her amazing work creating all the interior elevations! More to follow as this latest custom home continues to progress! For more info on John J Castle visit www.johnjcastle.com

05/21/2025

The latest John J Castle Custom Home has been completed and ready for its owners to enjoy for years to come! Like every John J Castle custom home this latest was designed completely from scratch inside and out to meet all the owners specific needs and wants! With every John J Castle custom home I take pride in everything I do as if it were my own personal home! Visit www.johnjcastle.com for information on the custom home building process as well as a gallery of completed projects.

Address

309 Allegheny Street Suite 9
Altoona, PA
16648

Telephone

+18149499356

Website

http://www.johnjcastle.com/

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