Additions, Remodeling, Renovations
Additions, extensions, remodeling, or renovating are options for any homeowner, provided they are allowed by zoning, homeowners associations, and comply with setback requirements.
Having experience in successful planning, design and building, beginning in 1974 provides you with what you need for an integrated project, instead of a disaster with regrets or worse.
Having been licensed by a state contractors board and a state board of architecture means that my knowledge and expertise were tested and passed with a total of 32 hours of state testing. Years of successful professional experience followed and is further evidence of competency.
Drafters are necessary and important, but they may or may not have profound knowledge and experience in engineering, architecture, and life safety expertise of building codes put into practice. Saving time, money and headaches in your project are things that you deserve.
Kitchen and bathroom redesign for efficiency and flow are vital for comfort.
Knowing if “knocking out a wall” is safe and/or feasible is something that requires study of a structure. Gravity is not the only force which must be addressed in a home. There may be snow loads, wind loads, or seismic loads that cannot be ignored. Some non load bearing interior walls, perpendicular to exterior walls, may have been designed for forces that builder or homeowner may not have considered. Ignorance is not bliss and it can even be deadly.
A continuous load path for uplift or overturning resistance requires structural experience which should never be ignored.