Window Restoration and Rebuilding a Rotted Bay Window

 

  

Restoring Porch Roof on 2502 E Grace St.

Part of the whole house restoration of 2502 E Grace St., the 1879 house that we have been working on since July.

We redid all of the framing including the built-in gutters; which is one of our specialties. Saunders Roofing applied the copper roof.

Uncovering Rot in a Fulton Hill Siding Repair.

Rot in a Fulton Hill Home! Repaired by the expert team of Cody and Chad. This bit was uncovered during a routine wood siding repair.

Demolishing Anachronistic Features of a House

Sometimes in our line of work, we come across architectural features that aren't original to the structure or are added, but don't fit in with the historic character of the house. In these cases a little demo is required before rebuilding.

We restored the Hilary Baker House in Church Hill a couple of years back and this is one area that the client couldn't address at the time. Two years later, we are finally getting to remove this anachronistic porch. What we now see as the front of the house was actually the back of the house in 1819 when this house was built. At this point this would have been the only house on a large lot. Over the years, development of the neighborhood by filling in portioned lots with row-houses has turned this around.

We will be putting in a period-appropriate stone porch here in the near future.

Installing Centre Hill Mansion Shutters

Our large shutter restoration project for the City of Petersburg at Centre Hill is finally under way. We had to delay for a while while several movies and TV shows were being filmed, 

The project involved restoring or replacing several old shutters and the hardware. The shutters that were either missing or had to be replaced were done so by the fine folks at Timberlane Shutters. 

We hired Doug McDonald Welding (our go to for metal work) to fabricate the replacement hardware.