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LED soffit lights . Casts a nice soft light.

Bath re-tile. Client keeps adding work! Here we have a bedroom closet with 96″ doors.

making progress – just a couple more days

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

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.

waiting for the light fixtures

trough kept horizontal by home made supports using blocks of wood and 4″ screws.

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.

A new marble saddle makes all the difference. TheRTAstore.com customer service is great. They replaced a blemished door no fuss.

The difference between city and country carpenters.

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.

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.

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.

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… Read more

1st phase of an apartment combination

IKEA real maple butcherblock countertop installed. Re-installed existing sink and faucet. New hardware on original wall cabinets. New base cabinets from TheRTAstore.com.

Original pine floor in kitchen. IKEA countertop & sink. Cabinets from TheRTAstore.com. Bosch appliances. Happy cat.

closets

custom bathroom cabinet door

small touch ups remain

new marble mosaic bathroom floor

Great view from this apartment. I watched 911 unfold from two floors up

kitchen progress

baby’s new room

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.

walls repaired, prepped, painting in progress 66 Overlook terrace Baby’s new room. Installing a pocket door. sheetrock tomorrow