First Friday Art Show and Open House

Please Join us for First Friday at our latest project. There will be art from awesome dudes printing, local food from La Copine (2nd and poplar), AND A SPECTACULAR HOUSE FOR SALE. All are welcome.

Pretty Sweet Aussies that design

Bike art show with gearing up

The Bike Part Art Show was last Saturday night - and thanks to the support of Old Glory Builders - Gearing Up women had 8 pieces of art for auction - all proceeds benefitting Neighborhood Bike Works! Below are some photos of the art in action!
Gearing Up is a nonprofit providing women in transition from addiction, abuse and/or homelessness with the opportunity to safely ride a bicycle for exercise, transportation, and personal growth.

We work with women at 3 recovery/re-entry programs in Philadelphia - as well as host an indoor cycling program for women who are incarcerated at the Philadelphia County Women's Prison.

Check out the website Here













-DAN

Enjoying the last of the warm weather

Resident 4 legger Cleo sucking up the sun on the roof of 842


-DAN

835 Lawrence complete walkthrough

Here is the complete walkthrough of 835 Lawrence. This property is SOLD. 842 Leithgow, it's sister house is currently being finished and is FOR SALE.

-DAN

Location:Northern Libertys proper

Railings finished

The railings were finished up over the weekend on Lawrence st. There's nothing quite like welding in a finished house. Chris added a few details that really set it off. It's borderline art. More pictures to follow tomorrow


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Solar hot water gets up and running

The beautiful radiant Tec solar domestic hot water system was finished up today at the Reno st commons. With in a few hours we had a tank full of hot water ready for use. This is the 5 system we have installed by these guys and the quality is superb. Lots of easy to read instructions and there tech department is top notch. I think I'm most excited though about not having to answer where the solar panel goes!
-Dan








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Railings installed

Fishtown's own Soft Baby Kitten Heads Iron Works. (funny name, great work). Came by on Friday to install the beginning parts of the railings in northern liberties. Chris was given free reign to design them and he once again put out a stellar product.
-Dan


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Green Roofs, IN!

Our Sedums were delivered yesterday and planted today. Nothing felt better than giving them their first drink of water in their new home. These look pretty sparse right now but there self seeding and should cover the entire area within the first year. I think I can already hear the utility bills lowering.
-DAN

Meet and Greet On wed Aug 10th

You are invited!
Meet 'n' Greet at our Northern Liberties project.
835 N. Lawrence St. Phila, PA 19123
Wednesday, August 10th
@: 6pm
Meet the Olde Glory Builders crew, vendor's and friends!
We're serving locally made snacks by La Copine, good beers and wine.
Bring friends who may be in the market for a home! The houses are currently on the market... More information will be available at the gathering.
See your there!

Here you will see the essential tools for an effective installation of a green roof. We were a bit shocked to find out how important a pack of cigarettes were to the operation. One of the installers couldn't work without a smoke... despite the 103 degree weather.

Of course, some dirt and some plant material (not shown) are on the "essentials" list as well.

Roof Water Test at Lawrence st.

In preparation for our green roof of sedums, we had to perform a "flood test". A test in which you flood the roof with about 1ft of water for a specified amount of time to simulate saturated plantings and soil. Let me tell you there is something a little disheartening about all that water up there, we made the best of it and had our lunch up there in bare feet beach style. Thanks to our roofer for making a watertight installation. Look for an update when planting day comes around.

-DAN

Almost finished bathroom

Hello all, here is a shot of an almost finished bathroom we are completing. Sorry for the cell phone pics its all we had that day. Specs are 200sq/ft bathroom on 3rd floor master suite. Radiant heat in the floors under gypcrete underlayment. Kohler escale suite fixtures. Spark modern fires 2 vue through fireplace. should be finished up in a few weeks. Check back for updates.

While traveling in MAINE last fall Kristal and I spied this house on the coast. You cant tell from the photos but its about 200 yards from the ocean on a rocky beach. I love this house. We couldn't get very close but the fall sunset framed it perfectly. Maybe an OLDE GLORY project will have some of these influences in the future.

819 S Warnock St, philadelphia

Here Is a project that Chris and Myself have just finished up. The project has beed a true study in logistics. From the start it was designated to be built inside of an existing garage that is attached to an occupied by the owners dwelling. In order to keep the existing house dry we had to build up under the roof 2 floors and then plan the removal of said roof with the weather. When the siding was to be started we had to receive permission from all the neighbors who's yards back up to the project along christian st. No easy task considering most of the buildings go right to the property line at a myriad of heights including Isgros bakery and there cooling equipment. All and all I think we took some valuable lessons from this one. This house is for sale,Please check out the MLS.
-DAN

Feature on The Nakedphilly.com blog

While at work this week a gentleman stopped by from nakedphilly.com, a real estate blog. Lou and I chatted for a while about the projects and green building in general. Check it out here Thanks Lou!

Free Time

In case you were wondering what the Olde Glory Crew does in there spare time when there not logging countless hours on the job.Chris has been working on restoring a 69 Norton Commando that his father bought new when he returned home from vietnam.

And Ive been building a 1951 BSA to take to the bonnieville salt flats this summer to compete for the land speed racing record for the 500cc vintage class. Wish me luck!

Chris Gets a ride with our Ariel Photographer

Chris was able to peel himself away from work for a few hours last month and hop a ride with our ariel photographer and pilot Doc. They flew around the city taking a few photos of projects for some current clients and also took some of center city covered in snow. Thanks Doc for this rare opportunity to view philly from the air

Finished Living Room

Heres a picture of a completed livingroom that we did as part of a whole house renovation. Its been a while ago, the floors are reclaimed and re-sawn from an old barn in western PA

Projects

Here is a video of house we did recently, were diggin on the modern look