Anatomy of a Demolition – (Part 6: Knocking Apart A Shower)
This was a rather small but functional bathroom that is about to be torn apart. We’ll start with a few pre-demolition shots. There was a small...
This was a rather small but functional bathroom that is about to be torn apart. We’ll start with a few pre-demolition shots. There was a small...
It took us a little while to get to the point where we could take out this wall separating the kitchen from the living area. For...
From working on another floor years before, I knew what it looked like above the tin ceiling.
We started with this part of the apartment for a few reasons. To start with, this was the only part of the apartment where there was...
It was very important on this job to contain the dust we were going to create or release in the process of demolition. We knew that...
This will be the first of many articles based on this particular act of destruction. Before I embark on some beginning to end post of this...
This apartment would be considered a railroad apartment, here in New York City. It doesn’t have a tub in the kitchen like an old school one...
I’ve been involved with exposing and repairing allot of bricks. This one happens to have been in my office. So often where you want to expose...
I have way more experience, proportionally, retro-fitting and refurbishing existing structures, than working new construction. Which is fine by me. New construction is easier, and I’m...
This a stairway that leads from the ground floor, partially lower than street level, up to the first floor proper of this 4 story walk-up on...
** Note, this page is currently being worked on, some additions to come 10-22-2011** This is a bathroom where I first had to – repair walls,...
One of the things that I have been specializing in over the last few years is creating and installing built in lofts. This was a larger...
When I first took over managing and rebuilding the buildings that constitute Hell’s Kitchen Rooms, I spent a month doing 6 months worth of accounting for...
Bricks were exposed in this room as far as we could get away with. Previously the closet area had been framed out for a door...
When we started work on this room, the room had only one window, the smaller one pictured above the radiator. The south facing window...
Creating a fully modern kitchen, we estimated that by the time we were done, there would be 10 electrical circuits in the kitchen. We also...
You’ll see a few of these rooms featured. We were going for very durable rooms ready for many years of service. If you are like me,...
Here are a couple of nice mantle places that I’ve worked up over the years.
This room is pretty typical of the refurbishment I’ve been doing over the last 5 years or so. This room had a really old hardwood floor...
This is a brick wall that you will see go through a few stages. I’m sparing you the incredibly messy process of taking the mortar out...
Owning a building that has very strong walls is a nice thing, but presents a higher cost when trying to upgrade the electrical system in some...