What a gorgeous day for a restoration! The basement footers are being dug and crews are roughing in the basement and first floor electrical. Rough in means they are laying things out without making the final connection. Soil conditions at the porch area will be repaired. Porch pier anchors will be installed. Basement concrete will [...]
Well the weather hasn’t been cooperative, so some thing planned for this week will be moved back a week. So once the weather starts to cooperate here is what is planned for the restoration the next couple of weeks: Paint metal ceilings, infill the wall, remove the stairwell and dig the basement. Here are some [...]
Next week crews will fill in the exterior wall framing on the first and second floors. Digging of the basement has already started and will continue. The stairwell will be removed. Steel will re reinforced for concrete. The following week, the metal ceilings will be painted. Demolition for the turret steel will start. Basement footers [...]
This week, lead abatement will be complete. Work continues on the second floor joist, structural framing in the basement, and the termite shield. The metal ceilings will be painted and concrete will be placed at the porch piers. Next week painting continues on the metal ceilings, the exterior walls will be infilled, demolition for turret [...]
Have you been by the site? Changes are happening! Basement evacuation will start the week of the 28th Crews are conducting adhesion tests before painting the metal ceilings and start perimeter wall framing in existing building. There was a surprise detail found on the turret that crews will try to preserve (original framing at the turret [...]
The weather is awesome for construction! Thanks to the warmer temperatures the lead abatement should be finished next week. As more of the building is exposed, weatherization becomes crucial, so crews are continuing the temporary weatherization. Framing continues in the basement for the first floor as well as the layout for the basement addition and [...]
Now that the weather is warming up, construction is moving along. This week, work on the front porch continues. See the pictures below. It is still too cold for lead abatement, but the weather looks good next week for that to happen. Next week crews begin framing the second floor joist and begin digging the [...]
The weather has been nasty, but work continues on the Black House. Demolition continues. Termite shield and bracing should begin in the basement. In the next two weeks, if the weather warms up lead will be removed. The layout and framing of the basement should start. Digging will begin on the basement, metal ceilings will [...]
The lead abatement is going slowly. The weather has been too cold for the chemicals to work. Meanwhile, the interior and exterior demolition continues this week. The next two weeks will see more demolition, installation of a termite shield, framing in the basement for the first floor, framing for the second floor joist, and the [...]
