Walker Farm

This was a newly purchased home that needed miscellaneous repairs.
We pulled out the old 2 layers of vinyl floor in the mudroom. Below is the multi colored slate we put back down in the laundry/ mud room.

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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Chimney

This is a 1920's West Asheville Home. The house originally had 2 coal fireplaces on the main level and 2 upstairs. We removed the chimney all the way through the house. In the upstairs master bedroom we added a closet.

Here is the finished closet with organizer.

Here is the pile of bricks we carried out of the house. We could fit about 7 bricks per 5 gallon bucket, 2 buckets per guy. After 16 hours we removed all these bricks.

Here is the bedroom closet framing. This entire space was taken up by the chimney.

Here is the bedroom wall prior to our renovation.

Here is the salvage heart pine flooring that was installed down stairs. We lucked out and found nearly the exact flooring and had it weaved in the existing. This was where the chimney went into the foundation below.

The chimney totally split up the kitchen and living room. It also came out into the side entrance door. On the right side of the picture you can see where we flipped the closet door from the back side of the wall to the front side of the side entrance.

This was the view from the side entrance door. The door opened up and you had this chimney right in front of you.

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Warren Wilson College

Back to school....

We were very excited to do some work at Warren Wilson. It is a super "green" school and has a great philosophy. All the students must work on campus. They have landscaping crews, paint crews, carpentry crews, and even grow their own food.

This is the art building. They used to have a covered bike parking area, but do to other construction projects they needed more faculty office space.

We moved the old window out and put a door to the office in.

Brian laying tile in the new office.

Spray foam in the ceiling.

Rigid foam with taped seems on top of the wall sheathing.

To make the floor elevations work, we had to tear out the old slab. Here is the thickened edge with rigid foam under the wall plate. This will keep cold outside concrete from radiating into the new inside slab.

Here is the original nook. We were able to keep the roof and basically build an exterior wall to enclose it.

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