Found in Demolition- November, 2014
Castleton Corners, Staten Island, NY
Single Family Home from 1925
Month: November 2014
Casting
With cold weather approaching, we’re beginning efforts to winterize our on-site concrete casting facility. We installed two hydronic air heaters to help regulate the curing process of our in-house architectural moldings and panels. We’ll have the walls of the room spray foamed in a few weeks and hopefully by then our final in-slab radiant heating will be installed. It’s amazing what you can do with finished plywood, some ingenuity, and power steering fluid!
Fresh panels with #3 epoxy coated dowels.
Column bodies in the shop.
Day old blocks laid out to dry.
Slate
There’s nothing more exciting than receiving a sample product from another part of the world. After communicating with a gentleman in China via email for a month, this hunk of stone (3/4″ thickness) showed up at our door.
Staten Island, NY, 11-2-14
Path of slate travel.
Artifacts
Every construction job entails digging up a bit of the past. Whether it is excavation, demolition, or opening up walls in a renovation, we’re always finding pieces of history on job sites.
Artifacts we found over the past few weeks:
India Wharf Brewing Company. Brooklyn, NY. Found in Excavation.
Apothecary bottle. Found in Excavation
1940’S Coca Cola wall mounted bottle opener. Found in Demolition.
Mason’s chisel and rough cut nail. Found in Excavation.