Setting the Staging The Moskal house is at the bottom of a hill, with access only by a driveway with a 30-degree incline. The limited staging area for materials required a lot of coordination. The homeowners lived in the two front rooms and bathroom during the remodel and their furniture occupied much of the garage.
Production manager Jeff Kinter spent a lot of time coordinating deliveries. “Most of the time our suppliers were good at keeping things in their warehouse and holding them until we were ready,” he says.
Kinter would have one load of materials delivered to the site and the crew would work off that pile until the next load was delivered a few days or a week later.
The crew stored some materials under the 9-foot-wide roof overhang, as well as inside the house. “We would store stuff in one room while we worked in another,” he says.
To pour the footers for the new foundation, they used a concrete pump truck. It could not be maneuvered down the driveway, so they parked it on the street and ran a 6-inch-diameter hose down and around the house to the back yard. They used their Bobcat to shift a load of concrete blocks from their street-level delivery to the back yard.