Bathroom Tile

Carpet in a bathroom is never a great idea. The upstairs in this house had 2 bathrooms with carpet. We pulled the carpet and put down tile floors.

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.

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Custom Interior French Door

This house had a cased opening where a remodel had taken place. The homeowners have salvaged french doors they need to strip and refinish. In the meantime, they wanted it prepared to hang the doors. They ran some LED lighting around the opening for the stained glass. When the lights are on, it lights up the blue rectangular glass and the green diamonds on top.

Here is the opening before I framed in for the french doors and set and trimmed out the glass.

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Foundation Repair

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.

Here is a view of the finished framing on the inside of the basement. The poured wall took about 115 bags of concrete. Since we poured in sections, we mixed all the concrete by hand. This saved needing multiple concrete trucks and a pump on multiple days. Hand mixing saved about $400.

Above is a view of the exterior wall removed and temporary bracing. We did two separate pours to be able to brace half of the wall at a time.

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.

Here is a view of the crumbled old foundation with the exterior wall removed.

Before we started the framing was rotting because it was at grade and the the foundation was falling apart.

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Panel Framing

This was a panelized home for Trio Design Build. I jumped on their crew to help set the panels and frame the roof. I was only able to work 7 days, but the panelization process allows for alot of work to happen in a short time.

This is at the end of day 7. The flat roof is dried in and the main roof is almost framed.

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.

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Bow Window

This project was replacing and old bay window with a new energy efficient bow window. The Pella sales rep was involved, so after the second window was shipped we had the right window and the correct size.

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.

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