GreenSource Portfolio: 2012

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Gravity Fed Dehumidifier

This basement has a dehumidifier that had to consantly be emptied. I decided to build a platform above some roughed in plumbing. Now the dehu can gravity drain into the waste line and never need to be emptied again.

The original Rough In Plumbing.

The lonely unit that needed to have the bucket emptied when full.

Screen Door/ Screen Porch

We have been doing all kinds of projects for these folks over the last 2 years. They have an older bungalow and are constantly fixing the place up. For this project, they wanted to screen in the front porch to keep out the bugs. After some different ideas, they decided to take down the old rod iron railing and corrugated roof and start new. They had seen some pictures of a screen porch using screen doors as the frame and railing of the screens. It worked out great.

Here is the finished product above. The screen doors are only primed and the screens are currently out of the doors. I will post more pics as the homeonwers decide on additional colors for the doors.

The rafters are exposed with an exposed

bead board ceiling.

Here is the only current operating door.

A view of the bead board and skylight.

Here are some exposed rafter details.

Here is the original rod iron post and metal roof. This type of porch roof is super common in the area. Structurally, they cannot even hold a person on the roof.

Monday, November 12, 2012

Waynesville Deltec

This is one of the greatest job sites I have been able to work on. Surrounded by mountains in all directions, yet on a flat lot. We really enjoyed our time outside of Waynesville. In 35 days, we had all the framing and siding finished. Inside the subs were all roughed in and the insulation was wrapping up.

Here is the view from the back porch.

Here is the back of the house.

Kitchen

Interior wall framing.

We framed interior walls for about 2 hours. We had the chop saw inside and nail guns blasting. I looked over and we saw this guy sleeping on a top plate. He slept all day. Luckily he found his way out over the weekend and we never saw him again.

Here we are wrapping up the last bit of the roof framing. This is our 10th day. The roofers were laying shingles as we were wrapping up.

We were running the roof sheathing on the 6th day. It is amazing how fast these can go together.

Day 5 we set all the Deltec roof trusses. This is a 5 man job, hoisting the trusses onto the top plate at the exterior wall and up a scaffolding at the center. This is the most physically grueling day we have on a Deltec.

Here is the 4th day. We set the garage trusses by hand.

This is the garage side at the end of day 3.

This is our 3rd day. Crane day is always a hectic one. We set all 22 round panels, put the trusses inside the house and set the erection jig.

Here is our 1st day. We unloaded panels and arranged the garage panels to set by hand.

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Decks and Rails

For this project we helped Brookestone Builders with decking and handrails. This is the upper deck. We installed a hog wire railing.

Nice view.

The top deck had a membrane to keep the deck below it dry. This roof was sloped to pitch the water away from the house. We then went back with sleepers that were tapered to allow the decking to be level. We installed these in 4 foot sections to allow for the deck to be removed easily if roof repairs are needed.

This is the membrane that was installed before we arrived.

Here is the front door. We wrapped the posts and installed the hog wire railing here as well.

Here is the lower deck. This had subfloor on the deck joists. We waterproofed it, put down sleepers and installed 5/4 tongue and groove decking.

Sleepers on top of our membrane.

The advantech before we put the mule skin membrane down.

West Asheville Garage

This is the second project in a row for an architect friend. It is a West Asheville garage that sits behind a coffee shop. It is used as a storage garage and had been framed up but needed siding, skylights and a salvaged metal roof installed.

Here is the finished front soffit.

This is what the front looked like when we arrived.

Here is the side of the building. We installed horizontal sheets of corrugated metal and fascia to match the coffee shop in front.

We installed 3 skylights and a salvaged metal roof over 3/4 inch furring strips.

Here is the custom flashing kit for the skylights.

Wilson Architects Office

Our friends at w2arch, recently moved into a historic tudor style home. They decided to design a new home office where their old single car garage had been. The tudor style is a split level floor plan. They wanted to utilize a bathroom on the main level near the kitchen for the office bathroom.

Here is the store front door with a salvaged wood shutter.

We had to open up the wall and add stair and a doors to access the bathroom.

We also added a pocket door to close off the kitchen to the bathroom during working hours.

This was taken during framing and after demo.

Here is the inside of the garage. The walls and ceiling were old lathe which is always super dusty while we are tearing it out.

Here is the original front of the garage.

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Dale St railing

Here is a classic Asheville bungalow with rod iron posts and hand rail. The homeowner has always wanted to do new posts and handrail and came up with a pretty cool design on the railing.

The rod iron was rusting out and being overtaken by weeds.

We installed 8x8 corner posts with 6x6's for the handrail. She came up with the sunburst design in the railing.

What a difference in the curb appeal!

Sunday, August 19, 2012

Cedar Shakes

This is a typical Asheville bungalow. They had covered up the old siding with tar paper and tyvek and it has been sitting like that for months. We had a pallet of shingle and went to town.