Product Review: Aquor Water Systems

Why do we love Aquor Water Systems products? Because the low profile faucet provides freeze protection while offering sharp modern lines or low visual impact.

A faucet should be located at each of the active spaces around the exterior of your home. But this often means a utility fixture is highly visible as your family gathers on the porch, pool deck, or grill station. Depending on which model you chose, you can align these Aquor fixtures with a modern home’s aesthetic or you can virtually hide the “hose-bib” entirely. The V2 with its square shape and color options is cutting edge for hose-bib technology and looks. At the same time the V1 with its low profile round shape can blend in anywhere and lets a traditional space shine.

In the upstate of South Carolina overnight freezes are a common occurrence and in the past decade deeper freezes have occurred each winter. If you are like us, when the forecast calls for overnight freeze you are busy worrying about your outdoor plants and not considering your hose-bibs. The cold weather impact is even greater for homeowners in Western North Carolina! In the past, homes often shed heat energy from the walls and floors which would keep the pipes and hose-bibs warm. As AJH strives to build homes tighter and exceed code minimums, installing spray foam wall assemblies or external insulation it has become more important to install a fixture that places the valve and water piping deeper inside the home’s envelope to keep it on the “warm side” of the shell … Aquor Water Systems does this so you don’t have to worry about it again.

Check out the V1 here: https://www.aquorwatersystems.com/products/house-hydrant-v1-plus

And the V2 here:  https://www.aquorwatersystems.com/products/house-hydrant-v2-plus-matte-black-stainless-steel

Also for a yard hydrant you can mow over instead of trimming around check out the ground hydrant: https://www.aquorwatersystems.com/products/ground-hydrant

April Fool’s Day – Twenty Years On

April 1, 2005 is the incorporation date of AJH Renovations, LLC, the first of the AJH family of companies to be born. No foolin’; it’s been twenty years since this show had its first episode, a whole-house renovation on North Main Street in downtown Greenville. Over the past two decades, we’ve lost count of how many residential renovations we have done in and around Greenville. Along the way, we added two divisions to our family – AJH Custom Homes, LLC, and Designed for Downtown, LLC. We have also branched out into light commercial and commercial subcontract work, including a key role in the recent ballroom renovation at the Pointsett Club in downtown Greenville. Each year has brought new opportunities and new challenges, not least of which were the Great Recession of 2009, the COVID pandemic, and the current high mortgage rates and general economic uncertainty. These challenges motivated us to develop a design/build renovation system that is both creative and efficient, providing our clients with beautiful and effective revitalization of their older homes.

Soon after the incorporation of AJH Renovations, LLC, we realized the need for a design division. Our clients needed detailed drawings to properly plan and envision their upcoming renovations. Eventually we incorporated as Designed for Downtown, specializing in custom home design, renovation & addition design planning, landscape design, and interior design work. What sets us apart from other designers is our experience working in the field alongside contractors and builders from permitting to final interior painting.

AJH Renovations, LLC is one of the pioneers in the Upstate of the Design/Build renovation model combining in-house architectural design with licensed construction services. This model streamlines the process of taking the homeowners’ dreams and needs and turning them into reality while also maintaining the character and ambiance of the mature home. Our designers work with our construction management staff in order to propose renovations that ‘work’ with the house or, as we often put it, letting the house work with the renovation. Design modifications can be investigated with the cost impact immediately determined by the construction side of the business. Proposed modifications are evaluated from the aesthetic and functional aspect, but also from the perspective of ‘buildability’ and code compliance. Our clients have been overwhelmingly pleased and well-served by the Design/Build model.

We at the AJH Family – AJH Renovations, AJH Custom Homes, and Designed for Downtown, bring twenty years of residential design and construction experience to the table. Give us a call today to see how our Design/Build model can transform your house into a ‘new’ old home.

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