KEEP PHILLY BRICK
Philadelphia's History, Revealed.
THE PROCESS
Send over your address, a few photos, and what you have in mind.
We’ll talk through the space, make sure it’s a good candidate, and go over pricing.
A flat deposit gets you on the calendar.
01.
The
Pitch
02.
The
Reveal
Before anything comes down, the room gets sealed, tarped, and prepared for the mess.
Then the drywall comes off and the old wall finally sees daylight.
We know there’s brick back there. What we don’t know is what the last hundred years have done to it.
Bare brick, beautifully aged plaster, old wallpaper, or some strange combination of all three.
This is where the project really begins.
03.
The
Plan
Once we can see the whole wall, we make the plan.
Great wallpaper? Maybe we keep it.
Beautifully aged plaster? Maybe we carve through it selectively.
Nothing worth saving? We expose the brick.
I’ll photograph the wall, mock up the possibilities, and together
we’ll decide what it wants to become.
04.
The
Mess
The hammers and chisels come out.
I’ll remove the plaster by hand according to our design, whether that means
a full reveal, carefully exposed sections, or something entirely custom.
Debris comes out, gaps get filled, and the wall starts coming together.
05.
The
Wall
Edges and gaps are plastered clean, brick is cleaned and sealed,
trim is repaired, and anything that needs paint gets paint.
Then everything gets cleaned up.
A few loud, dusty days later, a piece of Philadelphia that spent decades
behind drywall gets to be part of the house again.