302 CERTIFICATION

Exhibit 31.1

CERTIFICATIONS

I, Paul E. Hassler, certify that:

1. I have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10Q of Patrick
Industries, Inc.;

2. Based on my knowledge, this quarterly report does not contain any
untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact
necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances
under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to
the period covered by this quarterly report;

3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial
information included in this quarterly report, fairly present in all
material respects the financial condition, results of operations and
cash flows of the Company as of, and for, the periods presented in
this quarterly report;

4. The Company's Chief Financial Officer and I are responsible for
establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as
defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the Company
and we have:

a) designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such
disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our
supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the
Company, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known
to us by others within those entities, particularly during the
period in which this quarterly report is being prepared; and

b) evaluated the effectiveness of the Company's disclosure controls
and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about
the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as
of the end of the period covered by this report based on such
evaluation; and

c) disclosed in this report any change in the Company's internal
control over financial reporting that occurred during the
Company's most recent fiscal quarter (the Company's first fiscal
quarter in the case of the 10Q) that has materially affected, or
is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company's internal
control over financial reporting; and

5. The Company's Chief Financial Officer and I have disclosed, based on
our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial
reporting, to the Company's auditors and the audit committee of the
Company's board of directors:

a) all significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the
design or operation of internal control over financial reporting
which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the Company's
ability to record, process, summarize and report financial
information; and

b) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or
other employees who have a significant role in the Company's
internal control over financial reporting.



Date August 13, 2004 /S/ Paul E. Hassler
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Paul E. Hassler
(President)
(Chief Executive Officer)