The rooms we are built for.
Six hours down I-15
Clark County has most of Nevada's churches, most of them built between the sixties and the nineties, and dedicated pew restoration companies are scarce in the state. We are the nearest we know of, a straight shot down I-15, and we work the valley in blocks.
Las Vegas is a young city with a great many forty-year-old pews. The wood is generally fine; the foam and fabric gave up a decade ago. Most of the valley is a reupholstery job with a light wood refresh, and that is a week or two per room.
The buildings
The old churches are in Boulder City and downtown. Everything else was furnished after 1965 and is due.
Boulder City has a church from 1933 that predates the dam workers leaving. Downtown Las Vegas has a handful from the forties and fifties, and the cathedral on the Strip was finished in 1963. Those are the old rooms, and there are not many of them.
The rest of the valley — Henderson, Green Valley, Summerlin, North Las Vegas, the northwest — was built in waves from the seventies on, and the churches with it. Solid or good veneer pews, a finish that the dry air has been kind to, and seats that went hard on 1.5 lb foam years ago. A reupholstery job with a refresh, and a block of three of them is a good week.
Desert air matters here the way it does in Arizona. Single-digit humidity opens joints and crazes a lacquer finish, but it also protects the wood from rot. Most of what looks like damage is the finish. We plan the finish system for your humidity and tell you which problems are which.
How a Las Vegas block runs
Also serving Boulder City, Mesquite, Pahrump, Laughlin and Kingman, Arizona.
Sunday. If your sanctuary is not service-ready by 6 a.m. Sunday, that week's labor is free. The carve-outs are written next to it: weather that closes the road, delays on the church's side, and events already on the calendar when we scheduled.
Ten years. If a seam opens, a finish lifts or a repair fails because of how we did the work, we come back and make it right. Transferable to whoever runs the building next.
The spec. What we quote is what goes in — foam, fabric and finish named in the contract, data sheets in your file.
Local questions
In blocks. We line up two or three churches in the Las Vegas area on the same trip, stay in town, and work them in sequence. Each church gets the same half-the-room-at-a-time schedule and the same Sunday guarantee. The only thing that changes is that the travel line is shared.
Travel is on the quote as its own line: the real cost of fuel, lodging and the days on the road, never buried in the per-foot rate. On a typical sanctuary it works out to a few percent of the job. A company mobilizing from North Carolina or New York is carrying the same cost across three times the distance and hiding it in the number.
Where we can pair your job with another in the region, the travel line drops, and we will tell you if waiting a month gets you that.
Yes. We will try to schedule it with other visits in your area, which can mean a short wait, and we will tell you the date before you agree to anything. If you would rather not wait, four photos and a pew count by email gets you a written range in two days, no drive required.
Meetinghouse maintenance runs through the Church's Facilities Management groups and their approved vendors, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. If your FM group is looking for a crew that works on site across the Intermountain West, we would like to be on the list — hello@bethelfinishworks.com reaches Shawn directly.
Two hours in your sanctuary, every pew photographed and graded, one section refinished while you watch, and a written three-tier budget. Free, no drive charge, and yours whether or not you hire us. Or email four photos and a pew count to hello@bethelfinishworks.com for a written range in two days.
What we do