42 Ralph Talbot St. Weymouth, MA - 7/24 - 7/31 PROGRESS & SANDBLASTING

PROGRESS!
Yes we're moving right along and as you will see soon enough the house is looking AMAZING (if we may say so ourselves). As a matter of fact, everyone who drives by does a double take. And even though it would have been nice to have arrived at the point we are today a few weeks ago, we're happy with the outcome to date (despite almost losing the house twice due to the missing structural beams that a previous owner had cut out). No wonder the floor was slanting at the back of the house.

WHERE DO WE START? SALVAGING THE FRONT DOOR:

After days of contemplating reusing the beautiful Antique front door, and numerous conversations with our Energy Star Engineering cohort Steve, we decided that the front door had to be replaced with a new one. So we called on our friends at Yankee Restoration to come take it away and try to salvage it. They did but it was a daunting task.

First, we found out that back when the door was originally installed the owners cut out a portion of the structural beam in order to fit the door in. So our task which was thought to be a piece of cake turned into an enormous heart burn because if we removed the door the 2nd floor would cave in. So, with jack in hand and after stabilizing the 2nd floor the work began to salvaging the beautiful front entry door.

the door was taken down successfully in one piece.

SANDBLASTING:

Demolition revealed some rot & fire and the more we uncovered the more we had to replace. We contemplated numerous technologies (Including bringing in ServPro of Plymouth/Wareham which we used in our last project) to take care of the charred beams and finally decided to bring in a "Dry Ice Blasting" company (Able Restoration) to take care of it. We quickly found that dry ice didn't really do the job. Thankfully Able Restoration was kind enough not to charge us and recommended Sandblasting. So we called "General Sandblasting" and what an amazing result we got.
Below are some of the before photos. You can see some of the rot (these beams were removed) but most noticeable is the char on lots of the beams.

All covered up and within an hour 1/4 of the ceiling was completed.

We ran in during their break to see the results and we were AMAZED! Check out the side by side photo below:

And since no one was allowed to be in the house during sandblasting we decided to take the day and finish another job (a kitchen remodel in Hanson) so off we went. When we returned later that day we were AMAZED AT THE RESULTS and have not stopped talking about it since. What do you think about the photos below?

General Sandblasting came through for us and we were so thrilled that we wrote an online review for them.

Next up: FRAMING / SIDING / WINDOWS / DOORS / ELECTRICAL ROUGH / PLUMBING ROUGH / HVAC ROUGH