Hendersonville Custom Wood Countertops

Here is a custom wood counter top project. We removed the old particle board tops from the 70's, screwed a layer of 3/4 plywood down and installed the wood. This is stained southern yellow pine from the Mississippi Delta. I bought it milled with tongue and groove and is 8" wide boards that are 12 feet long.

Here is a shot pre-stain.

The old particle board. Here the bar top was a 24" piece like the rest of the kitchen. Unfortunately, that made an awkward overhang in the kitchen side. This limited the usable space.

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Kenilworth Crawl Space

Here is a sealed and insulated crawl space project. We are closing in on the end of weatherization season, but we actually did a good bit of remodelling on this project as well. The renovation pictures will be posted soon. This is a partially unfinished basement with no insulation in the floor, the basement walls or the band.

This phase of the project was insulating the walls and band with fire rated thermax insulation as well as 10 mill plastic to seal the dirt floor in the crawl. We also installed a whole house dehumidification system in the crawl that can eventually be ducted to the house.


Classic unsealed dirt floor with bare walls in the crawl space.

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64 Broadway Window Shutter

The store owners at the Wine Shop had a set of windows that are covered by wine racks on the inside. Since they were essentially useless, they decided to have us do a barn wood shutter over the windows.

Here is the windows and glass block.

The slim pickins of barn wood needed to be set out and designed to use every board.

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Montreat Patio

Here we are back at the house in Montreat. The big family project this year is to put down pavers off the new french door.

We came in to install a mesa block retaining wall and prep them for laying pavers.

Here is the back side of the wall. This is a heavy duty wall system.
Here we are grading and roughing in the base coarse and wall footing.

The original grade. Here the grade sloped back towards the house and was not great terrain for entertaining. The new paver patio will be a great spot for the grill and chairs. It will also tie in the old slab on the side of the house.

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Montreat

This is a home in Montreat that was built in the 1880's by the grandfather. The house is a classic Montreat family home shared by everyone in the family.

As with any old house, there are always things to fix. Here, the tongue and groove ceiling on the porch had old water damage and was sagging.

This is an old back window. We pulled the window out and replaced it with French Doors. This allows more sunlight and will provide for a great patio in the spring.

This side of the house had an old carport that had collapsed under last winters snow. After we pulled the carport completely off the house, an exposed door had been allowing water to get in the house. We pulled the door out and replaced it with a salvaged window from where the French Door went in. We repaired siding and flashed the bottom to keep the water out.

The finished side window.

New tongue and groove ceiling.

New French door with small bracket roof. This spring we will help the homeowners do a paver patio and steps.

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new website

http://www.ashevilleweatherization.com/

Check out the new website. The blog will continue to be the primary way to follow up to date projects.

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64 Broadway

This is an old store front in downtown Asheville. The store will be a new wine shop and tasting room. The architect wanted to create a more attractive entrance while keeping the existing window and door.

We came in and framed the inside and outside of the door and window.

After the framing was complete Warren (the metal artist) installed his rusted metal on the inside and outside edges of the framing.

We then came back to fit old barn wood to trim the entire store front inside and out. The barnwood came from the wine shop owners barn in Madison County. What a great way to re-use material!


The view from the sidewalk!

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