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Hello friends, clients, and everyone else. Thank you for spending your valuable time looking at what’s going on in Rebuild General Contractor world. We are finally enjoying some warm weather, getting some color in the process and looking forward to hearing from you and your people.
Since I last posted we have been fine tuning the final approach on the Wistaria house on Alameda Ridge, knocked out a fence, gate, and concrete job at Summerplace Retirement Community, Finished the Flying Pie Lake Oswego remodel, just signed a magazine quality kitchen/living room remodel in Happy Valley, submitted a $20k bid for a composite deck, and dropped a couple more bids off along the way on nice projects.
We are officially a new member of the HBA Pro (Home Builders Association- Professional Remodelers Organization) and a new member of Energy Trust Ally Program. So if you are having thoughts of a project at your home or business the resources are there to find answers, get inspiration, and realize the difference we can make on your project. We will show you how energy savings, good design, and great new products can ultimately change your life.
The 4 story remodel is in the final swing, and painters have the stage currently. The entire home is masked for painting of trim. There have been a few snags to get there but that’s the way it goes when homeowners are extremely involved and changes occur. I don’t advise against this just warn that it takes a great deal of patience and added time for all. Once paint wraps up, it will be on the custom hardwood guys to shine up the floors, and slab will go it shortly after. The Vertex water heater is going in next week, the fireplace mantle will be built, and the exterior grounds are transforming for the better. This place is going to glow.
The large Happy Valley remodel will include all my best Subcontractors: Modern Plumbing, West Side Electric, Lisac’s Fireplaces, Breese & Co., Oswego Drywall, Crown Tile, Summit Woodworking, Sundeleaf Painting, and about 800sf of NuHeat floor heat mats under all the travertine. All new painted and stained cabinets, a custom 8′ arched french interior door with true divided light, Wolf and Sub Zero appliances, slab granite, Caesar Stone, Graphic Eye Lighting controller, a Town and Country fireplace, on and on… Fun job.
The Street of Dreams this year had a couple homes I really felt a connection with, but unless you went it would not hit home. Both were designed and build by Hearth and Home Construction, first was the “Refinement” and next was “Transitions”. An excellent flow of materials, design and finished product that I actually took pictures of! The show is on Skyline this year and runs until Aug 29th. Go see them.
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Thanks to all who read this months blog-book, and as always we genuinely respect you and your thoughts.

Well it seems as though everyone wants something done these days. We try to accommodate all requests and have no problem referring our sub contractors to the small jobs. Don’t hesitate to have us over to take a look or have a listen. If I don’t trust the people I refer or back their level of quality, you will not be hearing from them.

We have been coordinating and performing work on the big 4-story job for months now and there is much to report on finishes, as the cabinets in entire house are installed, the hardwoods are installed but not finish sanded, the tile is 90% complete, the finish trim is 95% complete, the interior painting is almost ready for it’s final coat, the exterior painting is at punchlist status awaiting minor tweaks with siding detail, the basement floor is ready for it’s concrete staining (here is pic of desired look), the HVAC system is ready for it’s final cleaning, and the exterior grounds on this massive lot are in need of some initial landscaping. By the way, I think the clients are really getting excited to move in!

We just completed a design build exterior deck project up on Vista and it was a little monster to say the least. The lot was heavily sloped, the material was long and heavy, the clients did not really know what they wanted other than the decking before we started, and we were constantly changing gears to keep the job rolling. But what a transformation! TimberTech Twin material for the actual decking, and a custom built privacy fence built from 1×2 and 1×4 clear cedar, which the client painted as fast as we could bring it in for install. It was nice to have a client getting so involved in a project for once. They went out looking at cool fences etc to gain the inspiration and we mocked up these ideas for final approval. (see photos here) The detail was mitered corners wrapping around corners, but where the outside boards turned to meet the inside boards they were at different heights for the stepped privacy affect, so a small ledger was placed vertically to make the transition. We reused the existing stair system as it was very beefy and definitely reusable, retrofit some additional anchors and framing to existing deck to strengthen and made the inspectors actually smile! The look from either side of this finished product is just beautiful.

We are currently finishing up the Flying Pie Lake Oswego remodel, which we build a new 150sf storage room, demo’d and moved the front entry low wall, did misc carpentry, and will install the concrete counter tops in a week or so to both bathrooms. The carpet was completely replaced, the acoustical tiles at kitchen area were replaced, the walls were painted, and everything was cleaned. I can personally say, all the Flying Pie locations are good for a while.

Thank you for reading and as always, we appreciate the trust you place in Rebuild LLC. Talk to you soon.

Where to begin…

We are right smack in the middle of a 4 story full gut-job remodel on Alameda ridge, and while that is going on I have jumped over to the newest location for the restaurant/bar Wine Down East on Alberta to remove some unwanted walls and build the new. We are also bidding an addition in West Linn, a full home remodel next to Glendoveer Golf Course, and a heavily fire damaged home in North Portland off Lombard gets some numbers as well.

So, the Alameda job is full remodel which entailed an attic addition of full city view facing dormer for two new bedrooms, and a North facing 8′ dormer to house the bathroom on that floor. The third floor is the master BR, and both kids rooms, with full span rear deck. The main floor greets with a prominent staircase with matching Brazilian Cherry treads matching the new hardwoods, an open great room measuring 22′ x 32′, a den, half bath, and kitchen. The first floor (basement) holds the theater, wine cellar, laundry room, full bath and mechanical room. All the exterior eaves and deck lids will be fitted a T&G cedar finish, painted. There will be much more to talk about next month!

As always, thank you for placing your interest, trust, and time, with Rebuild LLC.