What We Did
A room with damaged walls, a damaged ceiling, and failing flooring, repaired and refinished. Straightforward work, done properly.
Not every project on this page is a gut renovation, and that is deliberate. The photographs here show one room, before and after: walls opened and patched back to a true surface, the ceiling repaired and refinished, and new flooring laid where the old floor had failed. The after photograph shows what the room became, sound, bright, and ordinary in the best sense of the word.
Small-scope work like Madden Drive matters more than it looks. Damage in one room never stays in one room; a failing ceiling points at a moisture problem, a buckling floor invites worse, and a house with one unusable room is a house losing value and livability at the same time. Catching that damage at the one-room stage, and repairing it completely rather than cosmetically, is the cheapest moment a house will ever offer to save it.
It is also honest to show. A page of nothing but dramatic gut rehabs would misrepresent what keeping a housing stock healthy actually takes. Most of what Pittsburgh’s older homes need is exactly this: skilled repair, done in the right order, by a crew that treats a one-room job with the same discipline as a whole house, because the family living with that room does not care how big the project was, only whether the ceiling is sound and the floor is solid. The before and after photographs are taken from the same doorway on purpose, so the repair can be judged the only way repairs honestly can be: same room, same light, different condition.