About the East Coast Construction Team

The East Coast Construction Team is not a typical collection of construction workers. In its building, located at 2011 Howard St. in Philadelphia, this group creates custom built homes, woodworking, metal work, and hand blown glass.

East Coast Construction owner Ryan Young has been woodworking for 16 years. The East Coast team just filmed an episode with HGTV's "House Crashers" in Oakland, N.J., where the group rehabbed a lucky couple's basement.

"We built floor-to-ceiling shelving, a live-edge tree cut bar, a terrarium, cork floors and our custom shelving unit called a Booktree," said East Coast owner Ryan Young.

East Coast Construction will film another episode with "House Crashers," where the group will be building a Phillies "man-room" with former baseball star Mitch "Wild Thing" Williams.

Even though the HGTV exposure is great the East Coast crew gets paid very little for filming the episodes. But Young said he sees other dividends.

"We do it for advertising because the episodes will show us wearing our East Coast Construction T-shirts and show the logo on our trucks as we pull up to a location," Young said. "It might pay off eventually, but most importantly it is a hell of an experience."

By David Foster and Matt Cohen of PhillyNeighborhoods.com