II - Brownstone Prep: An Evaluation
January 18 | 7:00-8:00pm
Location: The Old Stonehouse & Washington Park, 336 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY 1121
Guest Speaker: Rick Weisfeld, Old House Inspections
Location: The Old Stonehouse & Washington Park, 336 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY 1121
Guest Speaker: Rick Weisfeld, Old House Inspections
Evaluating a Brownstone's bones: Foundations, Facades, Roofs, Windows, Electrical Service, Heating and Cooling Systems. Reviewing past work through NYC's BISWEB system Engaging a Home Inspector
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RICK WEISFELDOld House Inspections
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Rick Weidfeld has been, at different times, a New York City bicycle messenger, a canoeing instructor, a deck hand on an ocean-going commercial salmon boat, a carpenter, and a Senior Materials Person handling construction logistics during two six-month seasons in Antarctica. He worked for the United States Forest Service for three field seasons in the Pacific Northwest: building trail, fighting wildfires, and doing fisheries and spotted owl surveys. In the 1970’s and 1980’s Rick traveled extensively throughout North America: mostly hitchhiking and hopping freight trains.
Rick spent over twenty years as a third generation New York City general contractor, at times supervising as many as ninety employees. During those years his company built or renovated dozens of notable NYC restaurants. On September 11th, 2001 three of his senior people were killed while working on a renovation project at Windows on the World. In 2003 Rick and his wife bought an old 3-story former stable building in Gowanus, which he subsequently renovated. In 2008 he worked as a project manager for Insite East, helping manage an award winning exterior restoration of the Temple House at Beth Elohim in Park Slope. Rick became an accredited Green Roof Professional in 2010 and taught Construction Project Management at LaGuardia Community College around that same time. That same year he obtained his New York State Home Inspector license, which he proudly still holds today. Since that time Rick has inspected over 700 properties – nearly a Billion dollars’ worth of real estate – in Manhattan, Brooklyn and near-by areas. He continues to work through Old House Inspection Company on most of his home and building inspections, while also working as an owner’s rep and construction consultant under his own firm, Antarctic Construction Inc. During 2011 and 2012, Antarctic Construction handled a multi-million dollar renovation of a C.P.H. Gilbert designed townhouse on Montgomery Place. Rick currently lives in Gowanus, with his wife (an artist and Tai Chi teacher) and their two teenage sons. |