Adairs Construction Network

This is our up to date progress. Roof on and exterior doors in. The insulators and drywallers will have at it for the next few weeks.

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Castel Renovation

After the Castel's moved into the house, Dave realized that the custom butcher block island did not have enough elbow room. We decided to build a new larger top with metal brackets. I put the first butcher block top on his desk and moved his custom cherry desk top to the laundry room as a clothes folding table.
After the Castel's moved into the house, Dave realized that the custom butcher block island did not have enough elbow room. We decided to build a new larger top with metal brackets. I put the first butcher block top on his desk and moved his custom cherry desk top to the laundry room as a clothes folding table.

Local wormy maple with a cherry inlay. Just over 2" thick.

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Adairs Construction Network

This Deltec Home is a custom home by Adair's Construction Network. This has been a great crew and a beautiful homesite at approximately 3,700 feet in elevation. Scroll to the bottom and work your way up to see our progress. This job started in June and should be complete for move in by November.

High efficient water heater/ boiler.

Radient tubing for the hydronic heating.

Setting the bands for the decks

Here is the covered front porch. This adds great porch space and really helps with the overall look of the house.

A view inside once the center post was removed. The house is engineered to hold itself up and its shape makes it ideal for high wind areas like this.

Cut out for the front porch wing

All the hips in. This is 2 days of progress from setting walls.

Here we are setting the hip trusses.

These panels came pre-sided and with windows installed

Here is a great view while we were setting the wall panels. The walls are 8 foot and the larger the floorplan the more panels you need. This is a 17 sided plan.

This is how the job progressed before I started. Superior wall daylight basement and the main level trusses were in.

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Castel Renovation

This job was in North Asheville's Beaverdam Neighborhood. We added a third deck off of the master, installed underdeck to create dry space on the lower two decks, new tile and tub in master bath, crown on the main level, radiant floor heat with new bamboo in the art studio, caulk and paint inside and out and weatherization upfits in the attic. 95% of the work was completed via email and phone conversations with the homeowners from Tampa Fla. What great folks!

A view of the underdeck. What a great looking finished product.
A view of the new 3rd story deck. This was engineered and stacked ontop of and existing double deck.


A view of the deck band during framing.


A view of the caulk joints on the siding. When we attached the deck, it was observed that the house did not have a drainage plane (tyvex) behind the siding. To help protect the house, we had every siding joint caulked before the house was completely re- painted.

Here is a shot of the finished soaking tub with custom shelf. We added the shelf to keep our new water lines out of the exterior wall. Looks great and functions well.

A side view of the electric radiant floor mats going under the new tile floor.

The original master bath, with the corner jaguzzi tub.

Here is a custom butcher block island. This is made from local wormy maple with a cherry inlay. Dave the homeowner has quite the chef's kitchen and this not only looks nice but is used multiple time a day. Stay tuned for an updated larger top to allow him more room to cut and dice!

Here is a view of the lumber right off the truck from the mill. Rough sawn and kiln dried.

Here is a look at the finished bamboo floor in the downstairs art studio.

Here is some foam air sealing around the edge of our rigid foam. This insulation prevents the heat from the radiant floor from being pulled into the slab below.

Here is our tubing with pressure treated sleepers.

A shot of the kitchen during painting.

A shot of the dirty laundry room. The folks that sold the house, did not clean up very well when they moved out. We went right over this stained flooring with new linoleum.

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Kegan finish

Here are the newly painted cabinets, new granite countertops and new appliances.

Another kitchen shot with a look at the engineered bamboo flooring.

Alook at the bathroom floor tile, tile wainscotting and shower pan.

Here is a veiw of shower. We removed a door, expanded the opening into the shower room and raised the shower ceiling up about 4 inches with recessed lights.

New vanity, medicine cabinet, countertop, sink and facet. Also, bamboo in the outer part of the bathroom.

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Kegan Condo

This project was to renovate/ update a condo built in the 1960's. The unit still had its original carpet, wallpaper, and popcorn ceilings. We stripped the ceiling, pulled the carpet, painted the cabinets and gutted the bathroom.

Here is the kitchen with original appliances.

Here is the old bathroom vanity with a door between the vanity and toilet and shower

Toilet and origanl shower and tub.

Kitchen during demo

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Dual flush conversion

I have been looking forward to having a dual flush toilet for awhile now. They can be a bit spendy and not worth ditching a perfectly good toilet for. Now you can have the best of both worlds with a dual flush conversion kit that only take 15 minutes to install and set. Here is the exciting inner workings of a standard toilet.

Here is a standard single flusher.

This Dual Flush adapter re-places the standard flapper. Not only will you "never" need to deal with an old flapper again, the cylinder allows you to control the amount of water that is used in the back of the tank.

Here is the new flusher. A small button above that flushes for number 1 and a larger button below for number two. When you push number one, about 2/3 pf the water in the tank remains in the tank. The product claims to save $100 year and cost only $27 online.

Maybe next, a composting toilet?
Happy Earthday!

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