1920's Era Restoration

A perfect day for scaffold work and painting amidst the trees...

Siding repairs in Church Hill

Column rebuild

Nick's very first column rebuild. If you can't tell from the photo, Nick is our resident romantic.

Beautiful tread replacement

Our client had a broken tread on the main staircase in his house.

Crawlspace work

Can anyone believe this weather? At lunch, Ben took a rest in a pile of plastic that we used to cover the lumber to protect it from the snow this weekend, and now it's 65 and sunny.

 After the morning in the crawlspace. Our faces look clean because of the all the safety gear we put on just to get down in there. We're adding piers and CMU footings for a client who had some structural termite damage and inadequate support in the first place. We're adding reinforcement beams where necessary. It's hard work, and no one will ever see the fruits of our labor, but we'll know we made the house more solid.

Beautiful new doors

Happy New Year

I'm sorry there haven't been many posts, but the holidays slow things down, and Sofy and Syd went to Guatemala. There wasn't anyone willing to post, so while RBVa kept building, no one documented. I'll try to make up for lost time.

This is a porch in the Fan we're re-building. The rafters are fir, and our crew milled a small double bead in the bottom to match the original design. These rafters will be exposed.

Porch restoration

This poor porch needed a lot more work than we originally thought. We started with repairing the deck, quickly realized we needed to address awful framing rot (and previous repairs). Luckily the client allowed us to do it right, instead of trying to throw a band-aid on a flesh wound. The first floor deck is complete, and we've lifted the roof to allow us to rebuild the second floor deck. The rot in the framing of the deck was bad enough that it had rotted the tops and bottoms of columns around it. Rot is a fungus, it spreads! This house will be on the Church Hill Christmas Tour in a few weeks, good as new.

A few close up shots of the trim before the clear finish goes on

Trim going back into 405

No one will ever know it was gone!

New replacement windows

Concrete formwork at 405