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Monday, April 15, 2024

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





Saturday, July 23, 2022

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!

Friday, June 11, 2021

New concrete landing steps with Redwood and Hog Wire hand railings


New redwood and cement stairs w/ hog wire railings 


Demo of 80+ year old blue schist rock stairs
My blank canvase

Framing for monolithic pour of new landing and steps

Floated and finished 59 bags of 60lb concrete

Forms removed and redwood stairs started


Acid washed to give concrete an exposed aggregate finish





Completed the stairs with redwood and hog wire hand railings







Sunday, February 21, 2021

Backyard ADU Construction



New 10'x12' office


Roof is done. Walls are sheeted.


side view

Roof and wall sheeting getting started

side view

I framed all the walls in 1 day

Back wall framing

Subfloor done

Forms removed.
Recycled windows from Urban Ore 

Concrete poured

Forms for foundation







Before

98% done





10ft x 12ft detached backyard office/studio built in Richmond solo-bolo. 
Reclaimed door & windows from Urban Ore.  
Took a month to complete.