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%.


Thursday, July 8, 2010

Painting

Simpsons Painting from Derry, NH has been on site the last few days painting the exterior of the house. The siding arrived with one coat of primer and all other pieces of trim were primed before being installed by Bruss. This left the Simpsons crew with the job of caulking and applying the 2 coats of finish paint.



Before painting, all gaps and cracks are caulked. This does 2 things. The first and most important thing is that it keeps liquid water from getting behind the siding and trim to cause any potential trouble. Sure, we have the Tyvek and Home Slicker behind siding but why rely on it in such a big way if we don't need to?
The second thing that it does is fill in all of the little cracks and gaps so when the paint goes on, the transitions between the different pieces of wood will look nice and smooth.


Apply caulking...


smooth it out...


Caulk...


and Smooth....


Once the caulking is dry, they are ready to begin painting using a spray gun.


Paint spray gun pump.


Tape off windows.


Spray some paint!


The painting with the spray gun goes very fast. They wait about 20 minutes between coats. It takes longer for them to climb the ladder than it takes to spray the paint in the area they can reach.


Paint the trim with 2 coats of white using brushes.


The crisp white trim is really making the trim POP! Niceeee
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