A Brief History

The project entails repairing the building at 335 Maplewood Ave in a manner that meets both preservation and sustainability goals. The building is the new location for Petersen Engineering, a firm that has been located in Portsmouth since 1992, and specializes in sustainable building engineering. We intend for this project to showcase techniques & materials that promote both preservation and sustainability and intend to share all aspects of the project locally and regionally through open houses, presentations, industry tradeshows, case studies and publications. We foresee this project being a valuable educational tool to demonstrate that preservation goals need not be compromised by sustainability goals. We have teamed with Bruss Construction who we know from past collaborations has exceptional experience and expertise on projects with the dual goal of preservation and sustainability.

The project received approval by the Historic District Commission on January 6, 2010 with construction scheduled to begin early February 2010.

The projected peak heat loss reduction is 85%.


Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Good Sill vs. Bad Sill



Not all bad sections of sill have rotted into thin air like the in the photo seen above. Most of the bad sill appears to be intact and OK to the naked eye. The photos below are taken about 5 feet apart at the front of the house on Maplewood Ave. One section of sill is good, one section is bad. The wood is flaky and brittle but will not disintegrate in your hand like the wood seen in the video posted on 2/1/10. I thought that the stud being mushed into the sill was really interesting. See the pictures below:


Stud rests on sill. (good)


Stud mushed into the rotten sill. (bad)
Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)