Portfolio · 2025
Exterior Facelift
An exterior repaired and put back as it was, only sound. Rotten wood was cut out, window and door frames rebuilt, the deck bench repaired and leveled, and the new paint matched to the old so none of it announces itself.
The owners were selling, and the house had reached the age where a coastal climate starts to show in the wood. The work was carpentry, nearly all of it: going around the building, finding every piece of rot, and cutting it out.
Window and door frames were the bulk of it. Where the rot had gone too far to patch, frames were rebuilt and re-trimmed to the original profiles, so what went back looks like what was always there, rather than like a repair.
The deck bench needed more than cosmetics. New supports went in underneath it, it was leveled to the inspector’s satisfaction, and every weak point was screwed down properly instead of being left to work loose again.
The paint was matched to the existing color rather than repainting the whole house. That is the harder way round, and on another job it might not have been worth it, but it kept the work invisible and the schedule short.
It was finished in time for the closing.
