Static Overview

This is the story of a very special house that has seen a lot of changes since it was built in 1914.  Our company, Dovetail Construction, has been in the business of high performance and sustainable renovation since 1987.  The scope of the renovation is in fact “monumental” and it actually sits on the renowned Monument Avenue in Richmond, VA.  The house was originally built for William Schwarzchild and designed by the architect D. Wiley Anderson.  It went from being a single family residence to the home of the Senior Center of Richmond thanks to the hard work from the ladies of the Junior League of Richmond.  As progress is made to take the house back to it’s original use as a single family home, we are fortifying it with the best resources, and technology available to make it last at least another 100 years.

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Out with the old (and rotten) and in with the new (and well preserved)


This is the porch ceiling.  It is a simple tongue and groove construction in really bad shape.  Peeling lead paint, rotten wood...




The adjacent roof tile is in terrible shape too.  It has been a hundred years and the party is over...  It has been band-aided so many times it is amazing that any water doesn't make it inside during a rain.

Here's the balcony with gravel and asphalt and more peeling lead paint and adjacent windows that are falling apart ... 





Let the demo begin!  But we are preserving anything we can including the old glass and beautifully beveled windows.  The heart pine under all this lead paint is amazing too and we are bringing it back to life.





Up goes the scaffording.


Bruce starts the healing process.





 This is what is going on in the dining room, striping the cofferred ceiling among other things, inch by inch...It's foreshadowing as to what will happen to the porch ceiling ultimately too. Hope you are on the edge of your seat!



Posted by Dovetail Construction Company at 12:25 PM

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