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   prosecho | Feb 19, 2006 03:39am | #1

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   Sorry for the date time stamps Mike

   My next project worthy of pics won't have it:)

   
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   prosecho | Feb 20, 2006 05:22pm | #12

   More picture of House

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   prosecho | Feb 20, 2006 05:32pm | #13

   kitchen after fire

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   prosecho | Feb 20, 2006 05:42pm | #15

   Finished kitchen with granite counter tops ,fanfoil doors on custom cabinets,Notice the stainless post by the cabinet,it is supporting a glass table custom made to attach to the end of the counter.The local supplied stainless post also in the right foreground was made at the same shop.

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   Mooney | Feb 20, 2006 06:18pm | #16

   Nice job.

   Ive done several fire and tornado jobs . Became the insurance contractor.

   If the insurance company disagreed with the home owner or their contractor they would do the job themselves. I was their guy.

   BIL works for a fire restoration comapany and its got pretty streamlined so he tells me. They are good at water and fire extraction but they lack in the department of putting it back.

   If that garage had been paneled with wood the house probably would no be there .

   Your pics would put on a good class for building inspectors requiring the 1 hour separation of garages. If the penetrations had been fire caulked and it had been a 1 hour metal door it might have been another set of pics . I believe it would have been.

   The 5/8s firecode choice was a great one .

   Tim

    

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   prosecho | Feb 20, 2006 06:37pm | #17

   Thank you Tim

   You are right on.I can't tell you what a great 1st.hand leson it was to me on fire.I was amazed where the fire did not get.It got so hot that all the paint on the upper kitchen cabinets bubbled.Nothing on the base cabinets.

   Rick Sheehan

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   prosecho | Feb 20, 2006 07:00pm | #18

   Family RM Dinning room  before fire

   Notice ,again the limestone fireplace,notice the built inns around it.Built in 1964.Very solid .Still had the bankers old stereo with tubes in the radio and a turn table.We felt the built inns were to busy and took away from the limestone fireplace.

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   prosecho | Feb 20, 2006 07:42pm | #19

   Dinning rm and Living room durring remodel.

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   prosecho | Feb 20, 2006 08:02pm | #20

   Dinning rm and Living Rm Finished

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   prosecho | Feb 21, 2006 05:47am | #21

   Front entry before and after fire

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   prosecho | Feb 21, 2006 06:01am | #22

   Front entry durring

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   prosecho | Feb 21, 2006 06:11am | #23

   Front entry final

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   JohnT8 | Feb 21, 2006 10:27pm | #24

   Tough way to get around to updating the house.  Are the babies/small kids in the latest pics the teenagers in the earlier pics? 

   Very liveable spaces.  I like it.   Not haughty auditoriums that I see on some renovations.  jt8

   "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame."  -- Erica Mann Jong

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    MikeSmith | Feb 22, 2006 01:45am | #25

    pros.... nice pics

     who  dis ?

    View ImageMike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore

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    prosecho | Feb 22, 2006 02:38am | #26

    Thanks Mike
    I didn't know if anyone was going to this page.
    I think it might have to many pictures so it loads slow.
    The guy in the picture is Rod (sparky).Rick Sheehan

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    prosecho | Mar 07, 2006 08:12pm | #27

    Posting again in hopes of having a place to direct potential customers.

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   prosecho | Feb 20, 2006 05:37pm | #14

   Pics during remodel of kitchen

   The idea was to open up the house since we were remodeling.We tore out several walls and put in micro lams in there place.Notice the limestone fire place it is now the main focal point.It was first built in 1964.We found the masons card when we were cleaning soot off of the limestone.The limestone fireplace was in the formal living rm.A room the customers said the only used on certain occasions.Along with the formal dining rm.That they only used occasionaly.So we decided to move some walls and open it up and shop off this really nice fireplace.

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   Huck | Feb 19, 2006 03:42am | #2

   Thanks for posting that - interesting job.  I did this kind of work for years.  Kinda miss it, in fact.

   The fire started in the garage due to ashes from the fire place - they usually do start in the garage, but in my experience, it was most often from clothes-dryer lint buildup.  Garages are high-risk, because of flame (gas water-heater), fumes (thinners, solvents, etc.), combustibles (stored wood, rags, dryer lint), and sparks from electric appliances.

   The door between the house and garage was hollow core.  - current code addresses this, requiring a one-hour rated door between house and garage.  Used to be the door had to be self-closing also, but here in Bakersfield I think they've dropped the self-closing requirement.

   The majority of the damage to the house was smoke damage.  Again, that was usually the case in my experience also.  That, and damage from the fire department (water, hatchet, chain-saw), whose priority is to put the fire out and save lives, not to save the house.

   "he...never charged nothing for his preaching, and it was worth it, too" - Mark Twain

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   prosecho | Feb 19, 2006 04:14am | #3

   Thanks for posting

   You did this for years ,that's cool ,what do you do now?

   This was a tremendous challenge for me ,I was very concerned that there was no smoke smell when I was done.I even convinced the insurance company they had to pay to replace all can lights,outlets and switches,All the insulation in the attic and all the insulation in the walls all the way through the family rm ,though I ended up gutting the kitchen

   The thing that really amazed me was the tremendous heat from the car,motor cycles ,trash,tires,etc....

   The fire did not burn through the sheet rock.This house was built in 1964 and all the rock was 5/8

   the only place fire got into the ceiling is where the electrician ran 2 pieces of conduit 1 1/2 stuff the flames went up there and burnt 2 bays all the way to the peak.There was no fire tape around the conduit ,the electrical box was an add on.

   There was a Cupola in the garage ,flames shot up to it ,it acted like a chimney,I think the fire would have done more damage if that cupola was not there.

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   prosecho | Feb 19, 2006 04:29am | #4

   More pics

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   prosecho | Feb 19, 2006 05:13pm | #5

   The insurence company first said they would only pay to repair the roof over the garage.I told them it would be hard to match up to the old cedar shingles.They came back with an offer to pay to reshingle the whole house with "Heritage Shingles"I put on the 50 year shingles.The home owner was thrilled .Since he was planning on re-roofing probably this year.He did not want to pay to put back the cedar which would have been best ,but there is no harm done to this house but putting on the shingles we did.IMHO.Also the home owner asked me to put in copper valleys and to reflash the chimney with copper.

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   prosecho | Feb 19, 2006 06:20pm | #6

   More Pics of where the fire started

   One picture shows where the flames got past the sheet rock ,where the conduit was .One shows a view into the house .The hollow core door in the pic was only temporary ,it came of a door frame the same size in the basement.

   I was amazed at how the fire did not get past the sheet rock except for the penetrations

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   davidmeiland | Feb 19, 2006 06:50pm | #7

   Were your checks coming from the insurance company, or from the homeowner? There has been periodic discussion here about the potential difficulties of insurance jobs. There's a fair amount of it out there.

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   prosecho | Feb 19, 2006 06:53pm | #8

   Checks came from the insurance company ,to the home owner.I fought for the home owner .Educating the adjuster as to why things should be .It was give and take ,but the home owner did well.

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   prosecho | Feb 19, 2006 07:07pm | #9

   More pic

   Family rm before

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   prosecho | Feb 19, 2006 07:31pm | #10

   Familly rm durring remodel

   Tore out wall and ceiling insulation,drywall ,etc.

   Sprayed all framing with a primer sealer.Sherwin williams product.

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   prosecho | Feb 19, 2006 07:56pm | #11

   Familly rm finished

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