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Recent Projects

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Antique Restoration

An antique ice box and table restored to their former glory.

Prepping ice box to be stripped, sanded and stained.
Icebox from side.
Regluing loosened icebox parts.
Tools to use in restoration.
Icebox on back.
Icebox on back, stripped.
Newly stained icebox doors.
Newly stained icebox body, sans doors.
Refinished hardware for the icebox.
Reinstalling dooss.
Final light sanding.
Restored icebox.
Restored icebox doors opened.
Antique table.
Small antique table.
Refinished antique table from above.

Reclaimed Wood for Custom Office Furniture

Reclaimed wood being readied to be used in a custom table and desk for a software company executive.

Newly cut boards.
Newly cut boards face up.
Cutting wood from log horizontally.\.
Stack of rounded heartwood from reclaimed tree.
Reclaimed planks.
Long view of interior of sawmill.

Bathroom Plumbing Restoration

Bathroom remodel with plumbing updates.

Original plumbing before repair.
New piping.
Walls being removed in old bathroom.
Taking bathroom down to studs.
New copper piping and plumbing parts.
New copper piping.

Brick & Stone Step Replacement

Replaced entrance steps and repaired sidewalks.

Broken steps leading to light-colored brick home's front porch.
Broken porch staps being broken up for removal.
Pile of broken stair pieces.
Cement base below old stairs.
Breaking up old stair base.
Prepping area in front of porch for new stairs.
Dirt below the old walkway.
Home entrance in advance of new walkway.
Preparing new porch foundation.
View of where new stair base will be constructed.
Supplies for new porch.
New porch foundation.
New porch foundation from front.
Start of new front steps.
Two new wide stairs.
Three wide stairs.
Patched area between new stairs and old walkway.
Finished new stairs.
Finished new stairs from front.

Custom Chopping Block Countertop

Kitchen cabinet with a chopping block top!

Wood pieces braced.
Chopping block with back trim readied to be attached to a kitchen cabinet.
Chopping block top at jobsite.
Chopping block top attached to lower cupboard.
Chopping block top attached to lower cupboard, view from side.
Chopping block top attached to lower cupboard, view from top.

Steps and Handrails for Deck

New steps, walkway and handrail for deck.

Stair and pavement removal to prepare for new stairs and deck.
Measuring and initial steps in raw wood.
Sideview of new stairs to be connected to existing deck, painted red.
View of existing deck.
New stairs prepping for railing.
New raw wood railings.
New rainlings from side.
Three levels of stairs and rails.
Three levels of stairs and rails.
Three levels of stairs and rails.
Side porch to deck.
Back porche to deck.
Wraparound railings painted green.
Three levels of deck stairs painted green seen from top.
Three levels of deck stairs painted green seen from top.
Sideview of new stairs and existing deck all painted green.
Multi-levels of deck on back of house.
New deck surrounded by landscaping.

Door Replacement & Repairs

New door and repair/replacement of roof over other entrance.

Porch overhang roof being removed.
Porch overhang roof being removed.
Porch overhang roof being removed.
Door removed.
Rotten wood surrounding door being removed.
Rotten wood surrounding door being removed.
Rotten wood surrounding door being removed.
Rotten wood surrounding door being removed.
Porch overhang roof removed.
Existing door.
New wood on porch surround.
New wood on porch surround.
New shingles under framing.
New shingles under framing.
New shingles under framing.
New shingles.
New shingles.
New door installed in new framing and repaired wood surround.

Replace Wood Entrance Steps

New entrance steps for porch.

New set of wooden stairs to front porch of foursquare house, from angle.
stairs to front porch of foursquare house, from front..

Vacation Home Getaway

This timber-framed home, in the vicinity of Emlenton/St. Petersburg in Pennsylvania.

It was built within the 160-year-old stone foundation walls of a barn (since torn down) original to the site.

Sun breaking through clouds.
Siloutte of man working against trees.
Wood being prepared, a a small bulldozer and trailer on jobsite.
Gravelled area where materials are assembled for major renovation.
New wood being harvested.
Men turning logs into timber.
Planing log into timber.
Trucks and wood.
New wood laying on jobsite.
Long beams of wood in stackes on top of cement block foundation.
Chimney off to side.
First floor on foundation.
First floor.
Corner of first floor.
Working high up against brilliant blue sky.
Corner of first floor.
Cement block foundation exposed on back of hill.
Back of building.
Side of building.
Down to old foundaiton.
Chimney.
Distant shot of foundation and first floor commencing.
John working on timber.

Previous Photos

Starting cement block walls of basement and foundation.
Starting cement block walls of basement and foundation.
Starting cement block walls of basement and foundation.
Side of new cement block walls.
Basement
Basement.
Side of new building.
Van by entrance.
Stacked square stone.
Old window from old basement.
Stacked stone retaining wall.
Partially constructed cement block foundation and basement.
John staning on roof in summer.
Piles of raw planks.
Wood being prepped.
Hills.
Wood being raised to roof.
Wood.
Jobsite view from top of long hill.
Job site.
Corner of damaged roof.
Sawing timber.
John with circular saw.
Inside view of framing.
Flat roof.
Flat roof from distance.
Tearing apart damanged wooden flat roof.
Sillouttes of workmen against sky.
John up high with hammer against backdrop of trees.
Job site.