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For builders and their sub-contractors, the middle of summer is their busiest and most profitable time of year.

Plenty of sunlight and warm temperatures gives them time to get their work done. But this past weekend a group of builders did their work for free.

The Southwest Montana Building Industry Association donated their time and energy to help fix up Eagle Mount.

"It's like a big honey-do list," Darryl Seymour, an Eagle Mount parent, said.

"This is amazing," added Eagle Mount Executive Director Mary Peterson.

Two dozen contractors and volunteers from the Southwest Montana Building Industry Association took time off from the height of the building season to make some much needed repairs to the Eagle Mount facility.

"Stuff wears out, new things happen. You know when you're a non-profit, you're raising money and it's all going to your programs so sometimes you don't fix that faucet when you should fix that faucet," Peterson said.

"It didn't take but a half-second for them to say, 'You bet. What do we need to do to make it happen?'" Seymour said.

They put in new plumbing, new concrete and a new viewing room for the riding arena

"We have lots of little workers, we have jobs for everybody," Peterson said. "It takes a very special community to make Eagle Mount work, and look at what a special community it is."

All of the materials used today were donated by Kenyon Noble in Bozeman.