Cedar Reside

This week we started an exterior siding project on Kato Court in Hide-A-Way Hills. A major remodel is currently occuring on the home. SMC has been sub-contracted to tackle the siding portion of the home's remodel. Originally, the house was sided with T-111 siding. The owner's choice of a new exterior will include a stained cedar lap siding installed over a house-wrap. Does your home need an exterior face lift? Feel free to contact me to discuss make-over options for your home.

Completed Porch

The porch on Kusa is nearly complete. We installed the tongue and groove pine ceiling, covered it with plywood , and laid the fiberglass shingles.

Porch Remodel

Today we started a Porch Remodel on Kusa Lane in Hide-A-Way Hills. Like some of our other trademark porches, we're building it using post and beam construction with timbers which were custom sawn at an Amish saw-mill.

Screen Porch

Recently, I've received increased interest in building porches similar to the one I built at our Nelsonville new build. To offer my potential customers more ideas, here a few photos of the first post and beam porch I built. The screened porch measures 12'x16' contains Hemlock timbers and is roofed with mill finished galvanised steel roofing.

Sky Lights

This week's project is a roof replacement on Cherokee Lane in Hide-A-Way Hills. The roof had developed some leaks over the Winter mainly in the area of some of the six Sky Lights. When we removed the shingles we found that two of the Sky Lights had been installed incorrectly and that none of them had been installed to our standards.

Water leaks are a common problem with Sky Lights, but with the proper precautions the Sky Lights I install, or the roofs I install around them virtually never leak.

My technique is to apply a self-adhering modified-bitumen underlayment to seal the Sky Light curb to the roof deck creating a watertight barrier. When the shingles and flashing are installed the underlayment is designed to seal around nails that are driven through it to provide continuous protection year after year.