GreenSource Portfolio: August 2011

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Scala front steps

Being a carpenter, its always tough when you do not keep up with work around your own house. I have been meaning to fix my front steps and add a handrail for sometime. This will help the grandparents safely get up and down the steps.

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.

Biltmore Forest Weatherization

This weatherization job was for some folks who are renting a house. The upstairs bonus room will be their storage and they need it conditioned for their art and antiques. The upstairs is on the same hvac zone as downstairs, so the a/c will turn off and leave it hot upstairs. After this work was completed we installed a free standing air conditioner that is vented to the outside.

We installed rigid foam on the backside of the interior door that separated the attic space from the bonus room.

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.

Solar attic fan

This house had no insulation in the attic and only a gable vent on one side of the house. With no ridge vent or soffit vents, the attic was super hot. The homeowners bought this solar attic fan and it installed very easily. 2 hours from start to finish. The fan turns itself on as soon as you install it and remove the cardboard.

Wardwell Deck

This deck has been a long time in the works. Our friends down the street just finished up an addition on the front of their house and wanted to put this deck on the back. Eric is a fireman so he had 3 days to stay home and help me build the deck. I really enjoy helping homeowners save money and put their own labor into projects.

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.