This bathroom had pink shag carpet. The rest of the fixtures are black, so I figured doing a retro black and white tile would give it a stylish look. Now we need to have the sink and tub surround switched to white.
The other bathroom is more neutral. We pulled the grey carpet and put down basic ceramic tile.
This project was a foundation repair. The house was built about 100 years ago and the foundation was dry stack stone. At some point a concrete wall was built, but it was not done well and did not tie the rock foundation to the concrete.
Below is a view of the finished product. We poured a solid 2 foot wide with 1 foot of wall above grade.
Above is the rebar cage we built. The engineer had a dowel epoxied into the existing rock. The cage then tied the old foundation to the new poured wall.
Before we started the framing was rotting because it was at grade and the the foundation was falling apart.
This was the end of the 5th day. While the crane was there to set the upper panels, we nailed off the ridge beam and had them set it for us.
Loft is framed and start roof framing over the master bedroom.
Morning 4. Main walls are up. Ready to frame loft and prepare for gable walls.
Morning 3. Getting ready for the main floor panels.
Morning 2. Daylight walls in the basement are in and ready for floor system.
Day 1. Only the foundation is in and ready for framing.
The new finished product.
The old window out and ready for the new one. Luckily, they finally got the size right and we are able to replace the window with little additional framing.
Removing the old bay window. This was a single pane, super leaky window. It was right in the living room, so the homeowners could feel the cold air going right through the window.
The stair stringers are now screwed into the railing posts.
Before the railing.
My sad looking front steps. The stringers were just sitting on top of cap block on the ground.
The attic floor was missing insulation in half of the attic.
Here is a reflective bubble wrap on the vertical surface in the attic. This prevents air from washing through the unfaced wall insulation.
Inside walls of the attic had no vertical backing.
Installing r-38 in the attic.
I squared up the footer location and we got footers and posts set. Once the deck was framed, Eric used his own sweat equity to lay the decking. I set the hand rail posts, installed the stair stringers and built one section of railing and he was able to replicate it and do the rest.
Side view prior to deck.
Back of the house. The flashing was already done some time ago.
The guest cottage had some rear deck issues. The stairs we basically falling off and not well supported. Here are our new stairs.
The back deck needed some work. We removed the top rail and plumbed all the posts. We shimmed and secured the posts and installed a new 2x6 top rail.
Here is a before picture of the handrail.
The main house has a side deck with no way to get down to the yard. This will be where the garden will go and the homeowners did not want to have to walk through the mudroom and out the garage to get to the side yard.
We removed a section of handrail and built stairs down to the yard.
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