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Dumbo Carriage House Courtyard
Faux Fireplace
Faux Fireplace fabrication/installation
A Light in the Shower
Here’s a cheap and easy Castle Village upgrade to the 6 line guest bathroom. A sorely needed light in these dark showers wired to a double rocker switch. Also a new sink, faucet, toilet, medicine cabinet, light, pipe insulation, re-grout, paint, and new Carrera marble saddle.
Budget Bath 2
Quick make over for a Castle Village 6 line guest bathroom. New floor tile and improved electrical with a light in the shower and a convenience outlet. New sink and toilet and viola!
budget bath
Budget Bath
Budget Bath & Bedroom closet
Asbestos found in old linoleum
Budget Bath
Soffitt lighting
LED soffit lights . Casts a nice soft light.
Budget Bath & New Bedroom Closet
Bath re-tile. Client keeps adding work! Here we have a bedroom closet with 96″ doors.
Budget bathroom
making progress – just a couple more days
Budget bathroom makeover
No plumbing involved. Never even removed the toilet. The owner lived through the experience. This job at 200 Pinehurst Avenue. Job was started by ambitious owner. Then she called us in to finish. Sheetrock walls, offset shower head location
Glass tile backsplash & light trough & kitchen lighting
Trough lighting and kitchen lighting T5 fluorescent
Glass tile backsplash & floor tile repair
cabinet facelift
scrape & polish
As part of all our paint jobs we restore door hardware. Paint chips from door hardware and “friction” surfaces is a common source of lead for young children.
Recessed lights/drop ceiling
IKEA kitchen details
Castle Village 4 line IKEA kitchen
butcher block
under cabinet lights & butcher block countertop
light trough3
waiting for the light fixtures
light trough2
trough kept horizontal by home made supports using blocks of wood and 4″ screws.
light trough
bending sheetrock
Finishing
Walls finished. Cabinets installed. Countertop template Monday. Closet floors painted. Light trough roughed in. Need to get the electrician and plumber back here to install fixtures.
blue boys’ room & IKEA kitchen
Oak floor refinished
Golden Oak stain
IKEA cabinets ready to go
new marble saddle. replacement cabinet door
A new marble saddle makes all the difference. TheRTAstore.com customer service is great. They replaced a blemished door no fuss.
120/4 floor refinishing
120 Cabrini 4 line wall repair
120/ 4 line electrical and wall repair
120/4 line electrical work progress
switch box offset where it needs to be. Greenfield spliced on 
Wi-fi media outlet in closet 
TV outlet 
switched outlet for soffitt lighting
120 Cabrini 5 line probe
The difference between city and country carpenters.
country carpenters never have to do this 
Looking for the drain and vent. Making dust 
selfie opportunity 
What the architect needs to know
120 Cabrini wall carving
Pyroblock – used since the early 1900’s for wall partitions. Sometimes it has asbestos in it – but not here. Pretty soft stuff once you get through the plaster coating. Probing the wall for the architect. Carving it up for the electrician.
Pyroblock 
Probing the wall in the kitchen 
building systems 
outlet box additions for lighting and media center. 
adding an outlet box for TV 
to offset switch box 
120/4 line
This time of day is really nice up here. The sun is low on the horizon this time of year – way below the bridge. I keep looking for the World Trade Center but don’t see it. View up Cabrini Blvd and of Hudson View Gardens’ half timbered construction.
145E15 plumbing sign off
Needed to close up the wall around the gas cock for inspection sign off. This apartment was pristine but there is a slob living there – really disgusting. I don’t know how they’re going to sell the place.
120/124 Additional necessary work
Work necessary in order to proceed which wasn’t in the original scope. Dusty work needing expensive tools, bits and blades. Sawing into the hardest concrete in Manhattan. Eighty year old concrete fabricated with large quartz pebbles – concrete fabricated before the mafia got involved. Also removal of millwork I had planned to re-use but now cannot because it’s so old and brittle. Three piece compound moulding not even available today.
Castle Village 9 line paint job
people have too much stuff 
polished olive knuckle hinges 
name another contractor who cleans out radiators for a paint job.
120/124 Castle Village
1st phase of an apartment combination
keep dust out of the common area 
door bucks removed 
electrical conduit 
box to be relocated. solid conduit to offset 
nailer embedded in concrete from 1939 
coped millwork original installation from 1939 – whoever installed this did a damn fine job.
250 Cabrini
IKEA real maple butcherblock countertop installed. Re-installed existing sink and faucet. New hardware on original wall cabinets. New base cabinets from TheRTAstore.com.
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Original pine floor in kitchen. IKEA countertop & sink. Cabinets from TheRTAstore.com. Bosch appliances. Happy cat.
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closets
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custom bathroom cabinet door
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small touch ups remain
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new marble mosaic bathroom floor
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Great view from this apartment. I watched 911 unfold from two floors up
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kitchen progress
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baby’s new room
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Home stretch – Bathroom floor repaired and leveled. Kitchen cabinets mostly installed. Need to put a filler on a table saw; run bx electrical cable to inside of sink base for new Bosch dishwasher.
floor leveled for new tile 
electrical needs to be located to inside of sink base cabinet 
one man one day’s labor
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walls repaired, prepped, painting in progress
66 Overlook terrace
Baby’s new room. Installing a pocket door. sheetrock tomorrow
Glass Mosaic Tile Bathroom Floor
Hudson View Gardens bathroom upgrade. Glass mosaic tile from Anne Sachs. New Lanka cove base tile. Regrout shower and new wall tile with Laticrete light pewter unsanded grout. New Surreal green granite saddle from All Granite and Marble, Ridgefield Park, NJ
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bedroom color 
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250 Cabrini painting