Welcome to Myers Constructs, Inc.! We are a women-owned design/build general contractor located in Philadelphia, PA. We have decades of experience, and are members of the U.S. Green Building Council. You can learn more about us and how we work, and see images of work we’ve done, by choosing a link in the right-hand column. You’re welcome to comment on posts below.
We want to address issues that matter to our readers. Please give us some feedback on the following questions, or feel free suggest other ideas to us.
1. What’s the one thing you would change about your home, if you could?
2. What’s the biggest energy-saving change you’ve made in your home during the past year?
3. What one home product/appliance could you not survive without?
etc.
Thanks very much!
‘Hope everyone enjoyed the snowstorm. For those of you who love the work-in-progress images, I’ve added to the slideshow on the Projects in Progress page.
Just a word to the wise. The roads are full of holes. Be careful!
First introduced last Fall, we’re extending our incentive program: book a home-improvement project now, worth at least $12,000, and we’ll give you eight hours of complimentary (design or construction) labor. It’s a limited-time offer, so act now. Contact us for details.
Just off the phone with my flooring pro who gave me some news to get excited about!
There is so much red oak in clear/select (the best) on the market that prices are very low! In fact the cost of these top shelf red oak floors installed and refinished are the same as the price of many lower quality pre finished flooring products.
If you have been putting off new flooring for your home, now is the time to buy it.
Whatever happened to water fountains? Look at these beauties! You would feel like royalty using these. I did when I happened upon them at the Parkway Administration Building, a beautiful, LEED-certified building on the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina.
These are a perfect example of how great design and craftsmanship make life better, even on the seemingly mundane level of getting a drink of water, which we all take for granted in the U.S.
Bottled water is very wasteful. It costs more than gasoline. It puts millions of pounds of plastic into the landfills and the Pacific Gyre here and here where it kills animals. And plastic containers have also been linked to cancer in humans.
Businesses and other non-domestic buildings should bring back water fountains! Make them beautiful, and people will use them.
On this project we are reworking a master bedroom bathroom suite. The old bathroom in this case was only about twenty years old. But inexpensive materials had been used in that DIY or low skilled contractor project.
Here I am showing some snaps I took of the fine work our skilled subs are doing to help make the new master bathroom a high quality, long lasting project.
You can see all the water lines and drains which will be under the subfloor are in place. Theses are for the new shower, toilet, sink, and tub.
All the drains are required by the township to be pressure tested prior to closing the floor, to insure there are no leaks.
The old plumbing vent through the roof has been cut and the stub through the roof is strapped into place for safety. We don’t want a 30 pound piece of pipe to fall onto someone.
You can see the newly cleaned up and now SAFE wiring along with the splicing kits.
You can see how difficult it is for these plumbers to locate the soil line for the toilet. The outside wall of the house is 2×4 which is too thin for the 4 inch soil line to fit. So they had to do some tricky turns with new cast iron drain material here, to avoid notching the joists or impact the kitchen cabinet layout just below this bathroom. We typically use cast iron because its quiet.
Our crew removed the kitchen cabinets so the new plumbing could go in. Later they will remount the cabinet and close up this drywall. No one will know the artistry these plumbers employed to get the new toilet in the right place.
Once the inspector approves these rough ins, we will close the floor and begin framing. The inspector will come out again to approve the framing and the further plumbing and electrical roughing in that happens in that phase.
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A lot of people are starting to hear the term “design-build” when planning their home renovations. The problem is, they may not understand how this model works or what its advantages are. Let’s take a look. In our style of design build – what we call “design to build” – the customer provides the vision for design development by telling us their dreams, wishes and budget, and then we take those criteria, create a design, and then build it to the approved specifications. Read the rest of this entry »
