We chose to go with a 24 gauge Galvalume metal roof product made by Englert and installed by Bradford Standing Seam. We had looked at many options for the roof and were attracted to metal because it is long lasting and we will never have to replace it in our lifetimes. Metal roofing from Englert […]
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Over the past week we’ve had to make a bunch of decisions about the placement of electrical outlets, switches, and light fixtures. So many things to think about! We had to imagine how we’d live in each room in the new addition – where would furniture go? Would there be wired internet, landline phone, cable
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The new entrance hall will serve to connect the original 1958 Techbuilt home with the addition is a fun, funky, and fascinating design. (The existing front entrance to the original house will go away). The inverted roof is held up by steel posts and a steel beam, On top of the beam is a steel channel
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This week the team is installing energy-efficient windows and doors from Pella into the new addition. Considering the cold and snowy weather and how drafty the original 1950s windows are in our existing home, we’re thrilled to have these windows go in. In phase two of our project some time this summer, they will use
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The team at Patriot Custom Homes has made excellent progress over the past three weeks. They worked really hard to get the addition ready for the inevitable Boston area snow. Just a day before 3 inches of snow fell, all new roof areas had Ice and Water shield applied and all exterior walls were covered
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Our builder asked us what color we wanted for the exterior trim on the windows. It seemed like a simple request and he needed an answer within about a week. Just the window trim color, right? Wrong. That single decision effects everything on the exterior, so rather than just selecting the windows, we decided to
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As we were watching the framing of the new part of the house, we were thrilled to discover that the enormous three-car garage was being built without the requirement to have support posts. We found this to be remarkable since there is an entire second story to be built above the garage. Our current garage,
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When our renovation and addition plans were nearly completed by our architect Joe Welch, we started a series of meetings with our builder, Dylan James to discuss the construction budget. We had an overall number that we were willing to spend but the first rough-guess budget came in substantially higher. Ugh. So we had to
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After more than a year of planning, we were certainly eager to get going with our renovation and addition project. But we weren’t quite prepared for the swift progress that the first few weeks of construction brought. With the unusually warm late autumn and early winter weather this year, once we gave the go ahead
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As the excavation work for our addition was beginning (and how dramatic it was) I noticed a bunch of large rocks being dug up. I figured that these would be terrific materials to build a stone wall, so I asked the crew to please save the stones. At some point near the end of the