I am rebuilding a house that was fire damaged. When you work on a project that is this large the progress may seem slow, as so many different tasks need to be done in a specific order. This Wednesday I received a truckload of boxes. Those boxes contained my...
As I have mentioned in previous post, I am working on a complete home renovation. The entire house was gutted, and now it has to be repaired and brought up to current building code standards. This means that I have had to replace all of the house systems, including...
I am doing an extensive remodel of a home in Naperville, which had to be partially demolished after a fire. When I removed the ceiling in the kitchen I discovered that the I-Joists had many drilled holes in them from a previous remodel from another contractor. Each...
I am doing an extensive rebuild of a fire damaged home in Naperville. One of the biggest problems has been to eliminate the smell of smoke. The house was gutted and all charred parts were removed. I also used a professional odor elimination fog (Odor X/Thermo...
I am in the final stages of finishing a kitchen remodel in Glen Ellyn. This remodel involved adding new lights and electrical circuits to the room. The building code required that the new electrical circuits in the kitchen have arc fault breakers, and the existing...
There are many small tasks that have to be done when a room is remodeled. This is especially the case when remodeling a kitchen. The photos below show just one of the tasks, installing cabinet hardware. In this example, we had 44 cabinet handles, each individually...
