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Custom home builder in Cascade, Iowa.
Cascade is southwest of Dubuque on the Maquoketa River. We do custom homes, barndominiums, and post-frame work for the rural properties in this part of the county.
Cascade is southwest of Dubuque on the Maquoketa River. We do custom homes, barndominiums, and post-frame work for the rural properties in this part of the county.
NXT Build handles residential and light commercial work for Cascade property owners. Post-frame is where Collin started, so barndominiums and post-frame buildings are a big part of the schedule, alongside custom homes, home additions, and roofing. The same crew and the same contact carry each job from start to finish.
Collin learned post-frame building the long way, with eleven years leading a crew for another contractor in eastern Iowa. In 2024 he started NXT Build LLC so he could run jobs the way he thought they should be run. That means a clean site when the crew packs up, and when you call, he answers and stays on your project until it is finished.
Why Cascade customers choose NXT Build.
When Cascade customers tell us why they called, it comes back to the chain of people standing between them and their build. They signed with a salesperson, got passed to a project manager, then to a crew working from half the story. Each handoff cost them time and money.
With Collin, selling the job and building it belong to the same person. The price he quotes is a price he has to build to. The dates he gives are dates he has to hit with his own crew. Call 563-581-3819 or email collin@thenxtbuild.com and you reach the builder.
The way the build runs.
Most of the worry on a build comes from not knowing what happens next, so here is the sequence for Cascade projects. A walk-through on your property costs you nothing. A written plan and a fixed price follow. Permits get pulled, the foundation goes in, and the crew builds. At the end Collin walks the finished building with you, and your warranty starts on move-in day.
Six services for Cascade customers.
Custom Home Building
Personalized custom homes built around your Cascade land and how you live.
Learn more →Commercial Construction
Workshops, ag buildings, and light commercial across Cascade and the surrounding area.
Learn more →Home Additions
Master suites, second-story additions, and sunrooms tied seamlessly into existing Cascade homes.
Learn more →Post-Frame Construction
Pole barns, garages, shops, and ag buildings engineered for the Cascade climate.
Learn more →Barndominium Builds
Post-frame shell, custom-home interior. One contractor for your Cascade build.
Learn more →Roofing
Standing seam, architectural shingles, full tear-offs, and storm-damage repairs in Cascade.
Learn more →Cascade FAQ.
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Out around Cascade, much of the land is farm ground, and a lot of our work there is the kind Collin started on. Barndominiums and post-frame buildings fit this country. Owners want a shop and a house under one roof, or a machine shed big enough for the equipment they already run, on land they have worked for years.
A barndominium on acreage is two jobs sharing one frame. The shell is post-frame: posts set in the ground, girts and purlins, steel on the outside. The living side gets everything a house gets, from insulation and mechanical to drywall and finished floors, and it goes through the same inspections. We plan the wall between the shop and the living space with extra care, because fire separation, noise, and heat loss all show up right there.
Rural sites around Cascade bring their own checklist. How long is the driveway, and will it hold a loaded truck in April? Where is the well? Where does the septic go, and has the county approved it? Does the building site sit high enough that spring runoff goes around it? We answer those on the first visit so nobody gets surprised after the posts are set.
Closer to the Maquoketa River, the low spots matter more. We pick the building pad with drainage in mind, and where the ground needs it, we bring in fill and compact it in lifts before a single post goes in. A shed that floods every spring is a shed you stop using.
Custom homes out here are usually built on a family’s own acreage, sometimes a few hundred feet from the house they live in now. That makes the job easier to watch and harder to keep tidy, so the crew cleans up and stacks material away from your yard and your livestock each day.
Older farmhouses around here get our attention too. A mudroom off the back door, a main-floor bedroom for parents who are done with stairs, or a new roof on a house that has been patched for twenty years. Those additions tie into framing that was built long before anyone measured with a laser, and we plan for that.
Cascade is west of Zwingle, a drive we make often. On larger post-frame jobs the crew runs long days through framing and steel, because once the steel is on, a rainy week stops costing anybody time.
