El Sobrante Bathroom Remodel

 

Day 1...

Day 2... Surprises!  3 layers of flooring between 3 layers of plywood in this bathroom. + The hot water shutoff valve under the vanity sink wouldn't stop dripping so gave it 1 more turn, by hand, and the whole valve broke off @ full water pressure. So of course the main shutoff was buried in dirt. 

Day 10...

Prolly wondering why the valve is way over here? Plans call for a bench to go under shower head

Cable railings on new deck project in Richmond, Victorian restoration in Oakland & a gondola relocated from Orinda

West Oakland victorian restoration

 

Relocating and roofurbashing a gondola with cedar shingles

New deck in Richmond, CA

I don't mitre my deck railings anymore. One alternative to mitering corners is using Lapped joints. Stronger and they will never open up. No screws within sight anywhere

Cedar Fence - Webster St. Oakland

Western Red Cedar Fence, driveway gates, entry gates, and arbohr designed and built by Cahl Roach 

Remote controlled driveway gates

After

Cedar gate glue-up

3D rendering of fence and gates with pergola

Cutting mortice and tenons for gates

Before

 

After

blank canvas

3D rendering of proposed fence and gates

I also installed 2 more gates down the side of the house

all glued up

2 gates installed with a fill panel on the left

Big gate in the middle and a person gate on the right

Adding a bathroom to a bedroom - Kensington

Framing a new bathroom inside a bedroom

Finished bathroom on left and laundry room on right

View of new shower through pocket door into finished bathroom addition

New floating vanity and tiling on floor and walls  

Almost finished just tackling the final details for the bathroom addition

New shower w/ frameless glass enclosure and we added a window for some natural light and ventilation.

Before...

Existing concrete slab floor meant a subfloor would need to be added to run new drain pipes

its always a suprise when opening up a wall in an older home and seeing into its history. This wall had some surprising discoveries. The big header at the top means this wall was once a huge opening. Closer inspection revealed a carriage style garage door still in place to the left. That was changed to a regular door in the middle of the wall and to the right was the rest of the second garage door. All made of nice redwood (1x10). We salvaged the redwood and reframed the wall. 

I reclaimed this carriage door for the old growth redwood. It was resurfaced and repurposed in all its beauty at Anthony's Cookies in Berkeley

Framing for partition wall and plumbing roughed in and subfloor added.

New bathroom (and laundry room) addition complete!