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Real jobs, around the Berkshires

Jobs where we have photos from more than one stage, so you can see how the work went, not just how it ended.

Deck & porch construction

Screened porch on a new build

The house had three pairs of French doors and nothing outside them yet. Four stages of the build, from the deck platform to the finished screened porch.

  1. Before the porch: a new navy-sided house with a ZIP-sheathed gable, three pairs of French doors and a bare dirt yard
    Before Doors in, no porch yet
  2. Pressure-treated deck platform framed on steel piers in front of the French doors
    During Deck platform on steel piers
  3. Crew member up on the porch framing setting the roof beam, with ladders and staging on the platform below
    During Posts, beams and roof framing
  4. Finished screened porch with a gable roof and lower rail panels, tied into the navy house
    After Screened porch, finished

What we did

  • Framed the porch platform in pressure-treated lumber on steel piers
  • Stood up the posts and beams and framed a gable roof tied into the house
  • Enclosed it with screens and lower rail panels
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Window installation

Window prep and install

Our crew’s part of this new build: prepping the rough openings, then setting the windows and taping them into the wall. Four stages, from taped openings to a bank of six set and taped in.

  1. Framed window openings in a house-wrapped wall, with flashing tape on the sills and sides, seen from the scaffold staging
    Prep Openings wrapped and taped
  2. New white windows being set in their openings, with wood spacer blocks between the units and a yellow level against the frame
    Install Windows set and leveled
  3. Close-up of paired windows with factory stickers still on the glass, wood blocking between the units and flashing tape across the head
    Install Blocking and flashing
  4. A bank of six new windows, three over three, taped into the house wrap, seen from the scaffold staging
    Set A bank of six, taped in

What we did

  • Prepped the rough openings with flashing tape on the sills and sides
  • Set the windows level, with blocking between the units
  • Taped the window flanges into the house wrap
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Fall cleanup

Leaf cleanups, before and after

Two front yards, photographed before and after the cleanup. The camera moved a little between shots, but each pair is the same yard.

Before: the front lawn of a gray ranch covered in fallen leaves, seen from the street
Before
After: the same gray ranch with the leaves cleared and the lawn mowed
After
Gray ranch, front lawn
Before: leaves covering the lawn between the driveway and the street at a yellow ranch
Before
After: the same yellow ranch with the leaves cleared off the lawn
After
Yellow ranch, lawn along the driveway

What we did

  • Cleared the fallen leaves off both front lawns, out to the street
  • Mowed the gray ranch’s lawn once the leaves were off (you can see the stripes)
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Commercial exterior

Storefront re-side

A storefront’s front wall, opened up and re-sided. The second photo was taken near the end of the job, with the ladders still up.

  1. During: two crew members on ladders at a storefront entry, the front wall down to the sheathing with ZIP System panels in the upper gable
    During Old siding off, ZIP panels in the gable
  2. Late stage: the same storefront with new sage-green lap siding, white trim and red entry doors, ladders still up
    Late stage New siding and trim, ladders still up

What we did

  • Took the front wall down to the sheathing and patched ZIP System panels into the upper gable
  • Put new horizontal lap siding across the front
  • Trim around both bay windows and the entry went from green to white
  • Entry doors changed from dark green to red
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