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%.


Monday, August 23, 2010

Plastering

Plouffe Drywall & Restorations was on-site today applying plaster on the walls. They skimmed on 2 thin coats of Imperial-Veneer Basecoat ( http://www.usg.com/imperial-basecoat-plaster.html#tab-features ). This is the same plaster that Strawberry Bank uses for many of their historic renovation projects. According to the guys, this plaster behaves and looks just like the original horsehair plaster that is in the rest of the building with exception that there is no horse hair in the mix.
After chatting with the guys, I learned that they are brothers (even though they look nothing alike) and have been in business for almost 20 years. They made the skimming of the plaster look easy and weren't afraid to tell me that "this ant easy!" and that it is only because they have been doing this for (freeking) forever that it goes so fast and that they aren't messing up and getting it everywhere.

An awesome website about everything plaster put together by the National Park Service: http://www.nps.gov/hps/tps/briefs/brief21.htm


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