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Neighborhoods: Montavilla, Southeast Uplift
AKA: Crawford Contracting Llc
Categories: Acoustical Contractors, Altering & Remodeling Contractors, Drywall Contractors, General Contractors, Home Builders, Insulation Contractors, Painting Contractors

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Phone: (503) 939-0031

Address: 1134 NE 71st Ave, Portland, OR 97213

Crawford Contracting

Interior

Kitchen Remodeling
Bathroom Remodeling
Flooring
Dwelling Renovation is a full-service residential remodeling and restoration company located in Portland, Oregon. From hands on custom carpentry to full-scale home makeovers, Dwelling Renovation has your home covered. Interior or exterior, large and small, we are your contractors for restoration, remodeling, additions, kitchens, bathrooms, finish carpentry, stairs, custom decks, gates, fences, flooring, rot repair, painting, you name it and we bring the quality and detail to it. Dwelling Renovation is about where you live, its unique character and your particular qualities that your home reflects about you. Let us make your home an embodiment of what your life is about! Please feel free to review the portfolio and contact us with any questions or comments you may have.
Door Installation/Replacement
Drywalls
Last month Portland, OR experienced an incredible cold snap. Many homes were severely damaged by flooding when pipes burst due to freezing. One such home I looked at recently had uninsulated PVC piping running through an attic space. Another unfortunately didn't have the heat on. Normally, in a fairly mild climate like this one most of us tend not to worry or concern ourselves with these disastrous possibilities. Nonetheless, both of these homes experienced severe damage resulting in much of the drywall and insulation having to be completely torn out. An insurance agent I spoke with recently reported that sixteen homes within one subdivision she worked with had filed claims due this last cold snap! Don't let your home become the victim of such flood damage. Make sure that your home has been properly inspected by a licensed home inspector and that you've followed through on the recommendations made. Be sure to keep your heat on to at least the minimum necessary to avoid freezing. Insulate exposed pipes. Disconnect your garden hoses and cover your hose bibs with insulated covers. The freezing potential isn't over yet this winter so don't let your house be next. If you have any questions please feel free to call or e-mail me and I'll be happy to help. Also, should your home need repairs due to flooding, Dwelling Renovation is a great resource. Just give us a call. Thanks and stay warm out there this winter!
Framing
Classically trained as an artist at the Herberger College of the Arts, Brian brings attention to detail and an ethics of craftsmanship to all of his work. After college, Brian began work as the exhibit builder for the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale, Arizona. The museum has 18,500 square feet of temporary exhibition galleries that require continuous dismantling and reconstruction. Often as many as 25 exhibits or more were hosted in a year, and with only 52 weeks to build and install them the schedule is demanding. While at the museum he learned about rudimentary construction skills and holding them to the highest standards. As exhibits came and went, construction, installation and critical details remained an ever-present aspect of the process of building for the aesthetic demands of a critical public and an even more demanding curatorial staff. Moving forward from the museum to work as an independent contractor and to expand his experiential tool arsenal, Brian's experience ranged from apprenticing for a master decorative painter to custom framing, fixture and furnishing manufacture and to traveling the world installing intricate artwork for multinational art shows. Arriving in Portland, and falling in love with the home and its special relation to the owner, Brian has turned almost all of his attention for the last seven years to residential renovation and restoration. Now, in his thirteenth year in the construction and carpentry trades, he has well-honed skills and a thorough understanding that quality is about following the appropriate process to produce the desired result.
Fireplaces
Our clients had landscaping, a new back patio and a fountain put in. The boarded up hole to the left of the door was originally a gas fireplace. They wanted to bring in as much light as possible and improve the view to the outside, so they asked us to install double doors.
Staircases
Cabinet Installation

Construction

Room Additions
New Construction

Landscaping and Fencing

Landscaping
Fencing
As summer draws to a close Dwelling Renovation would like to offer you some advice for the maintenance of one of your most valuable assets, your home. It may sound obvious but its important to remember that winters in the Northwest are particularly wet. Moisture in a house is one of the key ingredients to making it decay and ultimately uncomfortable. Worrying about the rain's effect on your home doesn't stop with your roof. Please take the time to clean your gutters or hire a service to clean them. That little garden growing up there may look quaint, but its trapping moisture against your home, possibly even rotting your roof. Places where the gutters allow water to spill over can damage your siding, shorten the lifespan of your paint job, even contribute to mold within your home. Next, make sure your gutters drain away from your home. If you are fortunate enough to live in an antique home this is particularly important. Excessive moisture around your basement walls can lead to a damp basement or even settling and cracking in your foundation. Finally, after all that great summer gardening is over, make sure you take the time to clear any soil away from the wood around your home. Soil holds moisture against the wood and even wicks moisture in, feeding the fungi that cause rot. Help your siding and fencing last longer by moving the soil and leaf litter away from it. Have a pleasant fall and please look after your home so that it can keep you and future generations safe, warm and dry for many winters to come.
Gate Replacement/Installation

Exterior

Decks
It may still be slightly dark and rainy outside, but Spring is just around the corner. Warmer days, sun, bbqs and all the joys of the great weather in the Northwest. Creating a unique and enjoyable outdoor space adjacent to your home is a wonderful way to ensure you make the most of the great weather while it lasts. Dwelling Renovation builds some of the best and longest lasting decks and outdoor structures around. Our decks use hidden fasteners and under mount systems that not only enhance the beauty of your wood deck by avoiding unsightly screw holes but improve its longevity as well by reducing pathways for moisture and rot into the wood. We are also firm believers that unsightly orange pressure treated wood, with its little staple shaped indentations all over it, should be used and not seen. Dwelling Renovation goes out of its way to make sure when anyone looks at your deck they see a natural wood outdoor space that compliments your home's beauty. Whether you are looking for a standard railing, a fancy keyhole pattern, or hand shaped balusters we are also your resource for custom balustrades. Looking for a unique or charming entry to your garden? Our mortise and tenon gates are strong, durable and resemble outdoor furniture more than just a gate. Whether you live in Multnomah, Clackamas, or Washington Counties contact Dwelling Renovation about a custom deck, gate, fence, or pergola to enhance the character, charm and beauty of your home.
Gutters
Siding
Residential Roof Repair
Residential Roof Replacement/Installation

General

Painting
Carpentry
Dwelling Renovation, the creation of Brian Crawford, is a full-service residential remodeling and restoration service located in Portland, Oregon. From hands on custom carpentry to full-scale home makeovers, Dwelling Renovation has your home covered.
Insulation
Masonry
Stand atop any roof in Portland, Oregon and take a look around. If you know what you are looking for you will see that half of the roofs in Portland are installed wrong. Immediately you will notice that many roofs have the flashing installed on the wrong side of the roofing, or sometimes installed with no flashing at all. This can create rot in the fascia and in the roof sheathing, leading to expensive repairs in the future. Look a little closer and you might notice that many of the the roofs aren't ventilated properly. A poorly ventilated composite (asphalt) shingle roof will not last nearly as long as a properly ventilated one. You say you purchased a fifteen or thirty year roof? In conditions like a roof experiences here in the Northwest and without proper ventilation you can expect that roof to last only two thirds that long. Examine even closer and you may notice that many roofs have the flashing merely caulked to the chimney, not cut into and lapping the masonry properly. Once that caulk fails in a year or two a slow leak may occur, rotting your roof unbeknownst to you until long after your warranty has expired or possibly creating problems for the future owners of your home. Short lived roofs are expensive and generate a lot of waste, they are possibly off to a landfill if they aren't recycled properly. Many older homes here and in other parts of the nation aren't designed with the appropriate ventilation not only because the builders usually didn't fully understand the importance but they were also originally roofed with other materials, like cedar shakes. Composite shingles are the most common form of roofing today as they are the cheapest. They are also the least durable, most susceptible to ventilation problems and most harmful to the environment. So what can you do? First, buy the best roof that you can afford. A dollar spent now is worth more than many dollars spent in the future. If you plan to remain in your home for a lengthy period of time, buy a metal roof or a slate roof, never re-roof again. Compare this against buying several composite roofs, possibly a new one every ten to twenty years. Second, if you must settle for a composite roof, make sure you have proper ventilation. There are many products on the market for retrofitting your older home with proper ventilation, adding years of life on to your roof. Most roofing companies will not offer these options to you, they frequently don't know or don't care. Ask Dwelling Renovation to come by, inspect your home and give you an honest opinion. We can help make your re-roofing project more effective, durable and we can even co-ordinate a quality roofing company for you. Put your home in trustworthy and knowledgable hands.

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