Restoration Builders of VA Project Recieves AIA Award of Merit

Our Castlewood Project has won the AIA DC Chapter Award of Merit. For the past year we have taken the early 1817 Neo-Palladian style Castlewood plantation house in Chesterfield, Virginia from this:

Before

to this:

After

 

We are glad to partner with Davis Buckley Architects to accomplish the restoration of this beautiful piece of property.

Thank you, AIA for the honor.

Eppington Plantation Siding and Shutters

Our restoration work on the 18th Century Eppington Plantation in Chesterfield is coming along smoothly. We have finished scraping, sanding, and priming the siding and it is ready to be painted.

We carefully built new louvres to restore the shutters; making sure that every detail matched the existing.

The finished product... ready for priming and painting!

We installed all new drainage to keep the Plantation house dry. This is the cement shoe of that system.

We've Reached Our Threshold (s)

New thresholds and restored door frames in the basement at Hilary Baker. Thanks to Boothe Memorial for the granite.
And that is not a giant chess piece that Chris has, but a newel post he has restored exquisitely.

Termite repairs at 2100 E Broad St- the accidental renovation

What once was a siding job has now turned into major structural repairs.

The studs are 'floating'- supported by the jacking beam bolted to them.

We had to remove a hall wall, the front door, and all the flooring on the first floor.

Hickman's Termite and Pest Control treated the building twice yesterday (we kept  finding more active bugs) .

The bug man estimates they've been chewing on this building for approximately 5 years.

This is called backwards building; suspending a building in air and building from top down, not bottom up.

We bolted 2x4s between the front wall and the floor so the wall didn't  swing out into the street when we lifted it.

Thirteen little miters