Our workers ‘fought through the fog’ this morning to attend to a window installation for a client. The window is a triple casement replacement. The old window appeared to be salvaged from an earlier job and was not doing a good job any longer. We replaced the window with a new Marvin unit with [...]
Our workers completed the foundation for the small addition at All Flex in Northfield. It was good that the addition was not any larger, as we were able to work under the tarps and get the foundation completed in spite of some wet weather.
We have moved inside on the trenching project. All [...]
We had ServiceMaster at our East side Northfield new home project yesterday cleaning and polishing. They do a fine job making sure the home is in move in condition for the owners.
It really struck me how nice and light the home is. Even with cloudy skies and drizzle yesterday the house had a [...]
We completely finished one elevator that we have been working on at Carleton College. The project involved a complete modernization of the existing elevator including a new car,hydraulic cylinder, controllers, equipment, doors, etc. The existing elevator had been a freight elevator only. These projects involve an incredible amount of work and coordination of trade partners [...]
We are doing some repairs at the Three Links apartments in Northfield. The structural floor base in the hallways had some deficiencies in it. We removed the existing carpeting in the halls and discovered that the underlayment had not been attached properly to the structure. This allowed the underlayment to pull up from the substrate, [...]
When we were in Atlanta last week I was really struck by the geometric lines and designs of the newer buildings downtown. Atlanta has a lot of construction from the 1960’s on. In fact I heard some complaints from some of the local folks that Atlanta destroyed some of their fine historic buildings in the [...]
We are helping out All Flex with a small addition to their manufacturing plant. They needed the work done right away so we fought the cold a bit last week to get the excavation work completed. We erected a shelter over the excavation to keep soil from freezing and keep our block layers warm [...]
Ellen and I spent last week in Atlanta, Georgia. It was nice to get away to a different climate for a bit, although it was unseasonably cold there. We mainly had blue skies with full sun which helped warm things by noon most days.
When we travel I always like to look at architecture. [...]
We continue to work on upgrading the elevators at Carleton College. Some are more challenges than others. On the present elevator we had to secure glazed block in a similar color and pattern to match the 1954 work. That is not always easy to do….this order came to us from a Texas fabrication plant. [...]
We are busy at work finishing The Crossing condominium units. The flooring is being installed by Bierman’s Flooring. This unit has nice laminate wood flooring in the kitchen and into the living room. This flooring goes well with the cherry cabinets. After the flooring work is completed we install wood baseboards at the perimeter.
The [...]
