D S Brody & Associates Inc.

Roof installation – Waltham

Dominique — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:48:38 +0000

We’ve been hired to reinstall a roof and gutters at an existing customer of ours in Waltham. We’re installing energy efficient Solaris shingles by Certainteed. The aluminum gutters come from Harvey Industries and the gutter guards are Ply Gem’s Leaf Relief system. This is a medium pitched roof so we decided to install ice & water barrier from eave up 6′ rather than the typical 3′.

The customer also asked us to check out the insulation in the attic because they have problems controlling temperatures inside. We saw that there was fiberglass insulation between all the rafters but very little ventilation. Installing a ridge vent wasn’t enough – we needed to create a way for air to travel from the soffits to the roof’s peak. Existing soffit vents were useless since the insulation prevented the air from flowing so we installed proper vents between each of the rafters.

D S Brody & Associates, roofing contractors in Waltham, Newton, Weston, Watertown and Belmont, provides free estimates so call us today at 781-893-1002 or email us at inquire@dsbrody.com.

Basement Remodel Lincoln – Before and After

Dominique — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 01:30:54 +0000

D S Brody & Associates, basement remodeler in Waltham, Newton, Weston, Watertown and Belmont, provides free estimates so call us today at 781-893-1002 or email us at inquire@dsbrody.com.

Basement Remodel – Lincoln, MA

Dominique — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:15:30 +0000

We started our next basement remodel earlier this month. The basement was finished with paneling over plastered drywall. A half bath, small mud room and closet are also being remodeled. We removed the paneling and drywall and added some framing to bring things up to code. All doors, windows, casing and baseboard will be solid red oak.

D S Brody & Associates, remodeling contractor in Waltham, Newton, Weston, Watertown and Belmont, provides free estimates so call us today at 781-893-1002 or email us at inquire@dsbrody.com.

Roof Replacement – Waltham

Dominique — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:10:03 +0000

D S Brody & Associates, roofing contractors in Waltham, Newton, Weston, Watertown and Belmont, provides free estimates so call us today at 781-893-1002 or email us at inquire@dsbrody.com.

Foundation repointing and new concrete floor

Dominique — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:25:12 +0000

This 120 year old home in Cambridge’s central square neighborhood had an old dirt floor in half the basement and an old cracked concrete floor on the other half. All of the masonry joints, both brick and fieldstone, had deteriorated into dust. The house lacked proper structural support resulting in uneven floors on each of the three upper floors.

We came in and demolished the wood walls and ceiling cover resulting in one large 1500 s/f room. We cleaned all of the masonry joints and repointed them with Type S masonry mix. We removed the concrete floor and disposed of 7″ of sub floor (in this case sand). The customer decided they wanted to enhance the foundation so we dug an additional channel along the interor perimeter and poured a 6″ slab of concrete over poly sheeting. We then installed some additional temporary columns under the existing beams and dug for and poured 8 new 30″x30″x10″ footings. New permanent columns went up about 4 days later. The center of the building was not properly supported so an additional beam, a 9 1/2″ double LVL beam was installed and 5 additional footings and columns were installed. We completed the project by compacting the floor, laying 3″ crushed stone and compacting that, laying 6 mil poly sheeting and pouring, by hand, 4″ concrete with wire mesh set 2″ below the top surface.

D S Brody & Associates, masonry contractor in Waltham, Newton, Weston, Watertown and Belmont, provides free estimates so call us today at 781-893-1002 or email us at inquire@dsbrody.com.

Basement Remodel – Wellesley – before and after

Dominique — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 19:48:10 +0000

Before and after pictures of our basement remodel in Wellesley, MA

D S Brody & Associates, general contractor in Waltham, Newton, Weston, Watertown and Belmont, provides free estimates so call us today at 781-893-1002 or email us at inquire@dsbrody.com.

: Custom made cubbies installed

Finish carpentry and furniture – Wellesley

Dominique — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 02:58:38 +0000

We’re almost done with our basement remodel. The final trim has been installed and painted. We just have a few more final touches to make before we obtain sign-off.

Roof Replacement – Waltham

Dominique — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:08:43 +0000

Today the men are reroofing a two-family home with gable roof and farmer’s porch in Waltham. They stripped the roofing shingles and underlayment and found a good amount of rotted sheathing. They replaced the rotted sheathing, installed the Tamko Ice & Water shield from eave up 3′ and around skylights and then installed Typar Surround SR Synthetic Underlayment throughout remainder of roof. Then the Certainteed architectural shingles were installed.

D S Brody & Associates, roofing contractors in Waltham, Newton, Weston, Watertown and Belmont, provides free estimates so call us today at 781-893-1002 or email us at inquire@dsbrody.com.

Snow Plowing 2012

estellevw — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 01:06:27 +0000

Winter is upon us. Contact us via email at inquire@dsbrody.com if you have a commercial or residential property that needs snow clearing services. Must be located in Waltham.

Concrete Patio

Dominique — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:09:19 +0000

We prepped and poured a 900 s/f concrete patio this past weekend. We compacted the subsoil, laid 6″ crushed stone and compacted every 2″. Expansion joints were installed along the house where the concrete would butt up to. We formed and poured and broom finished the patio per customer’s request. We went back on Monday to saw cut control joints every 8′ per customer request.