Breaking ground on our latest job

Our latest job is large deck. We will be building a deck that comes off the back of the customer's house and drops down to her pool. As you can see from the pictures below, it is somewhat hard to use comfortably right now. We were able to get our friend Roy from Full Circle Farm and Forest in yesterday to do the excavation for us and he did a great job. We would have been there this morning starting the footings, but today's rain kept us away. Check out Roy and Full Circle here: http://fullcirclefarmandforest.com/

Rotten Porch Rehab

Recently we were called in to restore a deck. There was some rot on the bottom of the posts and the spindles. We went through and cut out all of the rot and rebuilt everything. We used poplar that we got from a local distributor to repair it. We used poplar instead of pine to give everything a bit longer life, pine is a soft wood and doesn't hold up great outside. So we used the poplar to replicate some of the bottom rails and spindles, and used it to repair the posts as well. For the decking that was rotten we used 5/4" Dug Fir tongue and groove decking. While working the job we also replaced the lattice on the deck with ceder square lattice and put wire fencing behind it improve the look and keep animals out from under the deck. Once everything was replaced and fixed we sealed it all and painted.

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In Progress:

 New Custom Rails to Match Old Rails:

 

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Update on the garage

Since the last update a lot has happened. We finished framing in the roof, framed the eyebrow over the doors in the front, the roof and eyebrow have been sheathed and dried in, and the gable ends have been sheathed. We rented a small excavator and leveled out the floor of the garage so the mason can come back in and pour the floor. The dirt that came out of the floor we used to grade out behind the garage and level it all out. And then we seeded what has been finish graded.  

Recent jobs

Recently we have done some smaller jobs including  installing a very nice high-end sliding shower door for a customer. We also built a gate for a repeat customer who was having problems with animals getting on her deck and eating her plants. She insisted that we make it so the animals couldn't get onto the porch and she wanted to make sure that they couldn't climb over the top of the gate, hence the points on top of the gate.