It’s 8 years later and we were asked back again for additional work. We recently have just finished final touch ups. After some sun room, garage, effecia and soffit repairs, we prepped, primed and painted existing exteriors.

We evicted a squirrel and repaired the mess he made. Before repairing the driveway side gutter and roof area, where a squirrel at the kitchen side entrance chewed through the effacia board and got into the soffit of the house. His chewing holes allowed water to get into the gutters, into the effacia board and eventually the soffit of the house. This problem had to be cleaned up, re-sheet rocked and painted. Initially finding the source of the leak was a mystery until we went up with a ladder and traced everything back to the hole (i.e. chew marks). The house looks newer after being prepped, primed and painted.

Initially the homeowner asked us to repair a shutter as well. By further inspecting the shutter, we actually told the homeowner we can get a few more years out of the existing shutter. By spending a short amount of time, securing and regluing the existing shutter and prep, prime and painting, we saved the old wood. We could have bought new shutters, but these shutters are original to the house and why throw away the wood, if we can get some more life out of it.

We’ve waited for four weeks for some of the heaviest rains we have had in years. As we discussed with the church, we want it to rain naturally heavy instead of doing normal high pressure water tests, to make sure that nature leads the way to the areas we thought were allowing water to get in, are in fact, where water is getting in. We applied the board approximately 3 1/2 weeks ago and have yet to see water penetration behind the board.

At this time we feel comfortable to plaster the wall. The plasterer needs a special knife to create the mould to match the existing corner moulding. The plasters will remove the board one more time to make sure there is no dampness from any past rain. And then we will plaster at this time.

Completion shot of oval window, where we installed 4 missing plimp blocks, reinstalled old 1800′s trim after repairing old trimwork and reusing the existing trimwork.

Almost completed photo of bringing back the old railing system from the 1800′s. The stairway was configured much differently before we started. We put back the stairway system pretty much the way the house was built in the 1800′s, making sure to match the baluster rods and the top handrail end caps and posts to second and first floor railing system.

We took the old existing 1800 claw bath tub out and refurbished and reglazed the tub. After the installation of the tile and grouting, we reinstalled the bathtub into it’s new location. We then installed a straight shower rod in front of the tub (not a circular one that would normally go with a clawfoot tub). A Corian manufacturing company came in their mobile unit, to the job site, and cut an entire piece of seemless Corian so it pitched the water back into the tub.

We took the doors in this 3rd floor and saved them. Instead of purchasing a new pocket door set up, we got the pocketdoor hardware kit and attached it to an old door, and made it blend in with the new construction.

Almost completed with the Sewing Studio and built in cabinets. We were able to keep the left and right windows, and only had to replace the Center rotted window in the Bay. We were able to take a desired color from the homeowner, which they saw in a similar bay window set up in “The French Lieutenant’s Woman” the movie, and copy the color and painted the trimwork that particular color.

We took four bookshelves that were bound for the trash and utlizied them, by making them into a sewing table for the client. We took off the top of an old table and installed it on top of the four bookcases. We then bought and installed caster wheels to the bottom of the bookcases, so the cutting/sewing table can swivel easily. We were even able to match the existing stain on the built in’s in the sewing studio, and make an approximate match for the new cutting table we created.

Working closely with our Salisbury Rd clients over the last year, we have helped restore their garage and their front entrance way to their beautiful home. Below you will see two short videos of the remodels with before, during and after shots, so you can see the amazing progression that took place on each of these projects.

Historic Home Doctor has been working with this client for almost a year. We started with the garage renovation and front entrance masonry work (as seen on the blog entry prior). Both areas needed a significant amount of TLC and we brought both the garage and front entrance way back to their original splendor. We then started on the 3rd floor renovation, which was an overhaul of the unused attic space, which we remodeled and made; a sewing room, a bathroom, a new guestroom, an office and plenty of storage space. See our happy client on this YouTube clip.