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Jeff Roberts:
We opened this up with lots of windows.
Tom Tynan:
Hello everybody. We’re back a year later at a house with Jeff Roberts from TriFection, who got the commission to rebuild this home. It’s a historical home in Sugarland and it’s almost done. Jeff, let’s go see what you did and tell us about it.
Jeff Roberts:
Let’s go see what we did, Tom.
Tom Tynan:
I like it. Wow. It is different than last time I was here.
Jeff Roberts:
A lot different. We raised the ceilings up six inches in here, I think eight inches in the other room.
Tom Tynan:
Really? That’s awesome.
Jeff Roberts:
Just to make it feel taller. There was a wall right here that we took out to open up between the living room and the new kitchen. We actually added square footage to the left side of the house, not very much. That bump out is mostly all there. And we added square footage to the bedrooms on that side, which we’ll see when we walk through.
Tom Tynan:
This is the sixties edition right here.
Jeff Roberts:
Yep. Where you see the tar on the concrete.
Tom Tynan:
It took me a while to look at that. I thought that was the finished floor at one time, one of those new coatings that they’re putting on concrete. I know you had the old original floor, but you added square footage. So how did that work?
Jeff Roberts:
So we used used as much of the old original floor as we could, but obviously we had to get more flooring. So what we did, instead of just going and buying new flooring, we went and found a guy that salvages reclaimed wood out of Heights houses. Old early 1900s houses.
Tom Tynan:
That’s genius because I can’t hardly tell a difference of the woods. It looks fantastic.
Jeff Roberts:
Yeah. It’s not a perfect match, but you’re never going to get it.
Tom Tynan:
Wood never should be.
Jeff Roberts:
Never going to.
Tom Tynan:
Wood’s supposed to be different grains and colors. And it looks fantastic, but there’s no real change point in it, so it really blended nice.
Jeff Roberts:
This is the kitchen. This will be the kitchen. Cabinets on that wall, cabinets here, a peninsula here.
Tom Tynan:
The kitchen’s beautiful. Still has the plastic on the countertops ready to move in.
Jeff Roberts:
Yep. TriFection custom cabinets.
Tom Tynan:
I would expect nothing less on one of your jobs. I own many in my own house. They’re fantastic. You even see the drawers. They look as clean on the inside as they do on the outside, and that’s not always true with cabinets. Yeah, beautiful.
Jeff Roberts:
Quartzite countertops and quartzite backsplash. It’s got a unique little design here where we did a shelf to match the countertops and the backsplash.
Tom Tynan:
I think it looks great.
Jeff Roberts:
We opened this up with lots of windows so you can see the backyard and see the pool. This section that we’re standing in is the part of the house that was added on and built in the sixties. It wasn’t part of the early 1900s, which is the front part of the house.
Tom Tynan:
Well, I tell you, it still has that old feel to it, which is nice because sometimes we modernize them I think too much.
Jeff Roberts:
So we can come around here and take a look at the bathrooms because they’re kind of neat. Right here is where the clawfoot tub is going to go. This is the drain for the clawfoot tub.
Tom Tynan:
Now that obviously is new plumbing. Did you replace the plumbing under the house?
Jeff Roberts:
Yes. All of the sewer lines, all the way to the sewer main are new.
Tom Tynan:
And that’s where the tub’s going.
Jeff Roberts:
That’s where the tub’s going.
Tom Tynan:
That’s awesome.
Jeff Roberts:
Excuse a little bit of the mess. We’re tidying up. We’re just about through.
Tom Tynan:
The clawfoot tub. It’s all right. You’re getting ready. You’re getting close. Same wainscoting. Beautiful. Small tiles. This I take it is the big master bedroom. Obviously we’re back in the master bedroom and I can see that the framing, where it used to be the old exterior wall going all the way down to the floor here, and now we’re going with a different floor. It was just purely just an extension to make it bigger?
Jeff Roberts:
Yes, sir. This is the big huge master bedroom with the giant master closets.
Tom Tynan:
Sometimes closets have to be bigger than the bedroom. I like that. But I tell you, it’s a little house. How many square foot is the total house now about?
Jeff Roberts:
It’s probably about 1,300.
Tom Tynan:
1,300, right. So it’s not up to… Texas standards are 6,000. You got 1,300, but it still feels big. You got the taller ceilings and the bigger doors and a lot of windows. It helps. And this is a master bathroom?
Jeff Roberts:
Master bathroom. Turned out really nice.
Tom Tynan:
Very nice.
Jeff Roberts:
We bumped out several parts of the house. This is one part we bumped out to give room for a shower. And this shower is going to be a curbless shower that you could roll in on a wheelchair. It’s probably the most spacious room in the house in my opinion.
Tom Tynan:
And a true TriFection shower. You guys do the best when it comes to showers.
Jeff Roberts:
All right, so that was the master bathroom, and this is considered to be the guest bedroom.
Tom Tynan:
And this is where that floor is going to have to match all the way back.
Jeff Roberts:
Yes.
Tom Tynan:
It’s awesome. So you can actually see the old corner of the house was basically right about here and it’s stair step over to the bathroom.
Jeff Roberts:
So the old house ended right here. So everything from here over was added on. This is the small square footage that we added on this side of the house.
Tom Tynan:
I like this room. This has a good feel to it.
Jeff Roberts:
Which created the space for another bathroom.
Tom Tynan:
And another TriFection big walk-in shower. I like it.
Jeff Roberts:
All right, Tom. Well, let me show you the garage.
Tom Tynan:
My favorite room of the house.
Jeff Roberts:
Yeah, this is the homeowner’s, going to be his favorite room of the house too.
Tom Tynan:
I like it. Did you build all this new? Was there something here beforehand?
Jeff Roberts:
Well, there was a small one-car garage that we tore down. It was almost falling down anyway, but we tore it down. Let me open the garage door so we can get a little more light in here.
Tom Tynan:
I noticed there’s a direct drive. They’re becoming more and more popular. Super quiet compared to the chain-drivens and the screw types. So it’s nice.
Jeff Roberts:
And we added some storage racks there, motorized.
Tom Tynan:
See these things advertised all the time now. Many times I wish I had one. Could put a car on there and change oil.
Jeff Roberts:
Lift it up.
Tom Tynan:
And I see that big water heater system you have over there. Nice.
Jeff Roberts:
Tankless water heater. The water softener is not here yet.
Tom Tynan:
But it’s plumbed for water softener. That’s awesome.
Jeff Roberts:
Right.
Tom Tynan:
That’s necessary. There’s the other bathroom.
Jeff Roberts:
The fourth bathroom.
Tom Tynan:
Yes. This would probably be my favorite place right here. Privacy. I like that. Love it. Something for me to live for, to strive for is a bathroom in my garage. I like that. Well, that’ll wake you up. What’s that noise all about?
Jeff Roberts:
That’s the pool alarm. That’s a new safety code.
Tom Tynan:
Really? When kids get back here and you don’t know if somebody’s back here?
Jeff Roberts:
Yeah. The alarms are-
Tom Tynan:
Security too.
Jeff Roberts:
Any access points where a kid could potentially come through even from the back door of the house.
Tom Tynan:
Gate, everything?
Jeff Roberts:
Gates, windows.
Tom Tynan:
Wow, that’s new. I know we’ve always put gates and covers and things like that, but the alarm makes sense. Jeff, I see over in the front towards the house that you have exposed rafter tails, and then here’s your exposed lumber here that you were talking about on the inside.
Jeff Roberts:
Yeah, so the parts of the house that we didn’t add onto still have the old exposed rafters and the beaded roof decking. But the parts that we added, we did copy it.
Tom Tynan:
You copied it all.
Jeff Roberts:
We mimicked it so that it would be consistent around the house.
Tom Tynan:
Too many times I’ve seen that part not happen, and then it looks like, I don’t know, it just doesn’t look right.
Jeff Roberts:
Too many times people don’t even recognize that that’s the historic part of the house.
Tom Tynan:
That’s true.
Jeff Roberts:
And they’ll cover them up even.
Tom Tynan:
That’s true.
Jeff Roberts:
Well, Tom, we made our way around. I hope you like it. I think it turned out better than what I expected.
Tom Tynan:
The first thing, anybody will be critical of somebody else’s project, but does the homeowner like it?
Jeff Roberts:
The homeowner loves it.
Tom Tynan:
If they love it, then your job was done successfully because it’s not about you or me, it’s about them. This is their home. Well, the last thing I want to comment on is this brick. Because last time I was here we actually ended, I think our video, the before video with all this brick in a giant pile. All I see is this old brick. Are you getting a dumpster for that?
Jeff Roberts:
Nope. That brick’s going back on the house.
Tom Tynan:
Is that the original brick?
Jeff Roberts:
That’s the original brick. The original brick in the early 1900s is solid. It didn’t have holes in it.
Tom Tynan:
That’s right.
Jeff Roberts:
And the brick in the sixties, they started putting holes in the brick.
Tom Tynan:
It looks fantastic. And let’s face it, and I think everybody watching the video needs to realize it probably would’ve been cheaper and faster just to take the whole house out and put a brand new house in. You could have even matched it exactly the same but new, it would’ve been faster and quicker and cheaper I’m sure. This is a lot of work restoring these old projects. People need to realize what they’re getting into when they do it.
Jeff Roberts:
But if there’s a purpose for it, it’s worth it.
Tom Tynan:
Hey, it’s all in the heart. They’re nesters and this is where he grew up, and now the family gets to celebrate in a different era. Jeff, thank you.
Jeff Roberts:
All right. Thanks, Tom.
Tom Tynan:
TriFection is fantastic.
