Owner Rob Cook Throwing a calf for Branding at our ranch in Clark, Wyoming
Cook Bros Wyoming is an “offshoot” from its origins in a sister firm in Arlington, Virginia. This Wyoming Corporation is a completely separate and legally-unrelated corporation from the 37 year old Virginia firm of similar name (Cook Bros Design-Build in Arlington, Virginia). Rob Cook is the owner of BOTH companies. That is where any ties between the two companies ends = only the same owner. Rob “retired” from active involvement in the Virginia firm in 1997 to attend George Mason School of Law, and graduated with a Juris Doctorate law degree, then moved to Wyoming and left the Virginia firm to continue to grow in good hands, without Rob. He built a ranch in 2006, raised cattle, bought rental properties and renovated them, living a more simple life outside of the East Coast Washington, D.C. metro area.
We launched Cook Bros. Wyoming to provide high quality professional home services and general contracting in the Bighorn Basin area, based in Cody. There is a huge need for our services and have found in our 19 years in Wyoming that most homeowners here experience great difficulty getting competent contractors to be interested in and competent to help with small projects. It is our niche!
Cook Bros. Wyoming brings decades of professional residential construction and repair experience to the Bighorn Basin homeowners. And we LOVE small jobs! We can work both in Firm Fixed Price Bid type mode, and in Time and Materials mode, depending on the project. Service calls to fix your plumbing woes, and perhaps get your furnace working or frozen pipes flowing again, or any other type smaller job, all the way up to whole-house Window replacement, buried Sewer and Water Line replacements, bath and kitchen remodels and interior and exterior paint jobs. We can probably help you with what you need. Give us a call and see.
Rob Cook owns and maintains dozens of residential rental properties in the region, and has always maintained a ready workforce just to keep up with his own properties’ renovations/maintenance. So it was a natural to extend these capabilities and capacity to offer help to other homeowners and landlords. Thus Cook Bros. Wyoming came to be!
As further background on Rob Cook and the depth of experience we bring to Wyoming now, the following short Bio below can flesh it out if you want to have a little more info.
The Cook Bros. Design Build remodeling firm in Virginia, which again, has NO relationship legally to the Cook Bros. Wyoming firm, evolved from a small handyman service started in the early 1980’s by Rob Cook to help pay the bills during his college education. Much of Rob’s early remodeling experience came from working alongside his father renovating investment properties while a high school student and later as a college student. In 1983 Rob graduated from Rice University in Houston, Texas and after graduation, he served as a Construction Manager for a major regional home builder in Houston – personally responsible for the management of the construction of hundreds of houses from the ground up. In 1986, Rob returned to Virginia, then with a growing family of his own. Rob, with his wife of 42 years now, Ande, made their home in Arlington in 1986. Cook Bros. Design Build was formally established as a Virginia Corporation and began growing rapidly from a small painting and handyman company at inception in 1985 to the well-known Arlington Design/Build firm in operation today.
The Virginia firm began its construction orientation with smaller remodeling jobs in Arlington such as porch enclosures, entries, and room remodels, growing into a full-service, design/build remodeling firm, currently with 4 full-time Architects on our design staff. The typical project in Arlington runs around $350K and over $600K. But like all companies who have been around and successful for decades, it all had to start somewhere.
That was Virginia. Now, in Wyoming, our newer firm, Cook Bros. Wyoming is in a fast growing mode but focusing ONLY on smaller projects, unlike the Virginia firm. And here we are today, in Wyoming, doing what we love…smaller projects that seem to fall through the cracks of available contractors, leaving homeowners at a loss to get any help.