What we found
The owner had been considering doing the work in stages over several years. We talked through the math — combining the scopes and doing them under one scaffolding setup saves significant cost compared to repeated mobilizations.
The Work
We worked the building from top down. Cornice first: scraped, rust-treated, patched, primed, and color-matched. Brownstone facade next: stripped failed coatings, mapped and patched the spalled areas, repointed where the joints had failed. Stoop last: edges reformed, risers patched, ironwork scraped and prepared.
The unifying step was the color-matched coating system across the full facade — same color, same finish, applied with the same crew, in the same sequence. That continuity is what makes a multi-phase restoration read as one coherent building afterward.
The result
Vernon Avenue is one of the most architecturally consistent blocks in Bed-Stuy. 248 now reads as a fully restored example on that block — top to bottom, side to side. Future maintenance is reduced to monitoring; nothing else needs significant work for at least 20 years.
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