The addition on Steve and Cheryl's farm house posed some of the typical challenges found with 100-year old farm houses; fieldstone foundations and sagging floors, to name a few.
Getting started, we had to demo the entire east basement wall because the old stone wall crumbled as we uncovered it. We poured a new footing and blocked it up with the rest of the new foundation.
The new addition was the easy part; it was the old farm house that was the challenge. The floors sagged badly and would require a lot of jacking and supporting to get them back to a workable level.
Cherly wanted to keep the old traditional look of the farm house throughout the new addition so we setup shop in the basement and began making the casings and base. We had custom bits made for the specialty moldings and custom newel posts which we did in our shop, along with the matching interior doors.
The exterior facelift consisted of cement board siding with a composite trim board. The signature blue vinyl shakes dressed up the gables. We used Trex composite decking and railing systems on the porch and deck.
