We finished up the siding on the house on the river that we have been working on. The old plywood siding had decayed to the point that it was no longer serviceable. We also replaced the soffits and fascias with pre-finished metal material. The original siding had vertical grooves in it and was stained a [...]
For the past couple of weeks one of our crews has been busy installing new siding on a clients house on the Mississippi River. The house was built in the early 1970′s and has had some real wear on it. The original siding is a plywood sheet siding with grooves in it, generally called “T-111″. [...]
November 15, 2011 – 8:28 am
Last week we started an exterior home improvement project for a client on Northfield’s east side. The work involves removing the existing siding and windows and installing new house wrap protection membrane, windows, siding, soffits, fasicas and trims. When we are done with out work the owners will have a very low maintenance exterior for their [...]
October 26, 2011 – 5:37 am
We are working on some maintenance and repairs for a rural client. The work involves a variety of tasks….removing and replacing some exterior concrete walks and drives, replacing windows and a door, etc. We used the good weather last week to attend to much of the exterior concrete work. Most of the concrete is exposed [...]
September 30, 2011 – 5:38 am
From time to time we have to extend or replace utility services to a building which may require excavation in the public street right-of-way. Working in the streets brings its own challenges, typically getting the proper permits, inspections, etc to complete the job as planned. The jurisdictions are generally very good about identifying and locating [...]
Earlier this year we finished work on a new grilling deck for a client. It incorporates some salvaged tempered glass panels for the guardrails which provides a nice, clean look to the deck. The side railings are made with colored aluminum balusters. Since the deck is being totally used for grilling there was no need to [...]
February 25, 2011 – 8:37 am
Our workers have been busy working on the exterior siding on the new home we have under construction. This home has exterior walls constructed using insulated concrete forms (ICF) by Reward. Reward includes fastening strips on each side of the form. On the exterior the siding is screwed to the fastening strips. It is a bit [...]
October 25, 2010 – 9:15 am
Last week we started a small job for a condominium in Northfield. Part of the work involved removing the existing concrete walkway and replacing it with a new concrete walk. We will include a metal railing on the new walk. This is a fairly straightforward project but will make a big difference to the condominium [...]
September 3, 2010 – 5:35 am
We started a screen house project this week. It consists of building a small…12’x 15’…screen house in the rear portion of the homeowners lot. Even though it is a detached small structure it still is required to have a proper foundation. For this project we decided to use a pier foundation. To do this we [...]
April 13, 2010 – 12:45 pm
Today we took advantage of perfect spring weather to install the concrete driveway at our Eastside new home project. We had installed crushed concrete as a base for the driveway last fall and drove on it all fall and spring. That was an excellent choice as it stayed firm even during the spring freeze and [...]
