The former church-owned brownstone at 145 West 131st that sold for $600K (original asking was $699K) last year looks to be finishing up on some of the major facade renovations. At 16 foot wide, it's not the biggest townhouse on the market and the chopped up interior that did not have electricity running in it for some time needed a complete overhaul. Nevertheless, the
WSJ house gut renovation of a similar size home with some better upgrades costed a total of $420K so the owners should finish up below the average asking of a newly renovated house in the area.
The lower photos show that the doors still needs to be replaced but the front of this building just east of ACP/7th is definitely catching up with some of the restored neighbors on the block. Does anyone know what it costs for stripping the paint from the front of the building? This would have been the extra expense specific to this particular reno.
Wow. Looks good.
ReplyDeleteI stripped the battleship gray paint from the brick facade of my late lamented federal building downtown. It was just one element of the work I had done (a lintel needed repacing and the whole front needed repointing) so I don't remember the specific price but it wasn't eye-rolling, chest-clutching, hyper-ventlatingly expensive. And I spasm easily.
Excellent job, I like the dark widow frames matching the cornice.
ReplyDeleteWhat role would newspaper play in either the original facade or the stripping? While this facade was being stripped a coating of newspaper was exposed. It wasn't clear to me whether the stripping had exposed newspaper from an earlier era, or whether for some reason newspaper was fastened to the facade after the stripping occurred. The workers claimed the newspaper had been there, but I was never sure they really understood my question. Any ideas about this?
ReplyDeleteThey slap on industrial-strength stripper and then cover it up (in this case with newspaper, I guess) and let it cook for a day, then scrape and powerwash.
ReplyDeleteThat makes sense with what I was seeing. Thank you Sanou's Mum.
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