Portfolio — 2025
The Landings
An exterior taken apart and put back as it was, only sound — rotten timber cut out, window and door frames rebuilt, the deck bench re-supported and levelled, 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 timber. 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 structure rather than cosmetics. Additional supports went in underneath it, it was levelled 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 colour 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 programme short.
It was finished in time for the closing.
