Manning Gym

Monica Manning is a personal trainer and wanted to do it out of her home, so Jeff built a gym on the back of her house. They already had a room on the back of the house that needed some repairs. we'll start with repairs to the structural water damage.

The roof had water damage from poorly installed makeshift skylights and needed to be torn down to the joists. Half of the plywood needed to be replaced before the new roofing could go on. the skylights were removed and covered with the new plywood.

Once repairs were made, roofing felt was put down and he began shingling. This was jeff's first experience with shingling.

Most water damage on this wall was due to back drainage on a concrete slab that had been previously poured. So the original slab was broken up, removed, and re-poured with it sloping away from the house. The damaged part of the wall needed to be removed and replaced with new criplers. It was re-secured to the foundation after concrete was poured.

New wall was framed with an opening for an oversized door for gym equipment access.

One window on this wall was removed, all remaining windows were replaced.

Two windows were removed from this wall.

Two windows were also removed from this wall, and as you can see this is prepped for siding. Also the completed roof is shown here.

Replaced the siding

The roof and siding is beautiful....and eventually painted to match of course.

Dry wall was removed from existing ceiling due to mold.

Jeff spliced into existing A/C system and ran ducts to condition the gym. Also installed lighting and a suspended ceiling. One benefit to the suspended ceiling here was that the A/C did not need to cool or heat the space between the new ceiling and old vaulted ceiling. Also this provided easy access to electrical, plumbing, etc.

Leveled the floor of the gym.

You can see the ceiling panels, lights and A/C ventilation have been installed here, as well as the drywall and paint being done.

Jeff installed a exterior door for them as well which he actually made by hand (this is the oversized door referred to earlier). Because of the weight and size needed for this exterior door the prices were outrageous. So jeff custom made one to better fit their budget. This was Jeff's first door & jam construction.

Door after paint

Jeff also installed the carpeting on the floor.

And now a wonderful functional gym, for an awesome personal trainer and friend.