Spectrum Renovations

Spectrum Renovations Licensed General Contractors. Specializing in REO rehab, water damage restoration, mold remediation and waterproofing.

Here's a simple kitchen we completed for a customer down by the beach. There used to be a wall on the left. taking it ...
02/26/2025

Here's a simple kitchen we completed for a customer down by the beach. There used to be a wall on the left. taking it out opened up a tiny kitchen and provided an extra seating/dining area. These concrete look quartz tops are great for rental units.

LOL, here's our guy Miguel caught on Google Maps Street View. He's semi famous now! We turned this garage into a tiny ...
10/28/2024

LOL, here's our guy Miguel caught on Google Maps Street View. He's semi famous now! We turned this garage into a tiny studio apartment.

Bocce Ball anyone? This Carlsbad home has a sweet new space for Bocce or Petanque. Petanque is a French game similar t...
10/28/2024

Bocce Ball anyone? This Carlsbad home has a sweet new space for Bocce or Petanque. Petanque is a French game similar to Bocce. I had to look it up! The homeowner had a great start to the court, but called us in to finish it up and make it more accessible from the yard.

Somebody has a new kitchen! We took out the wall making this kitchen feel claustrophobic. They lost some upper cabinet...
10/28/2024

Somebody has a new kitchen!

We took out the wall making this kitchen feel claustrophobic. They lost some upper cabinets, but deemed it a worthwhile sacrifice to get the open feel they wanted. New cabinets, lighting, appliances, fixtures and countertops went into this one. For a smallish condo it feels nice and functional now.

Simple shower, before and after.
09/17/2024

Simple shower, before and after.

08/01/2023

The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Well, because that's the way they built them in England, and English engineers designed the first US railroads. Why did the English build them like that? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the wagon tramways, and that's the gauge they used. So, why did 'they' use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they had used for building wagons, which used that same wheel spacing. Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing? Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break more often on some of the old, long distance roads in England . You see, that's the spacing of the wheel ruts. So who built those old rutted roads? Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe (including England ) for their legions. Those roads have been used ever since. And what about the ruts in the roads? Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match or run the risk of destroying their wagon wheels. Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome , they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing. Therefore the United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot. Bureaucracies live forever. So the next time you are handed a specification/procedure/process and wonder 'What horse's as came up with this?', you may be exactly right. Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the rear ends of two war horses. (Two horses' ases.)  Now, the twist to the story: When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their factory in Utah . The engineers who designed the SRBs would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains, and the SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds. So, a major Space Shuttle design feature, of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system, was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's as. And you thought being a horse's as wasn't important? Ancient horse's as*es control almost everything. 😁

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New garage slab today..
12/22/2022

New garage slab today..

What evil lurks behind this pantry cabinet? The mysterious musty odor source is solved...
12/19/2022

What evil lurks behind this pantry cabinet? The mysterious musty odor source is solved...

Another icky wet subarea job this week. Lack of ventilation in this crawlspace left it crawling with bugs, mold and a d...
11/22/2022

Another icky wet subarea job this week. Lack of ventilation in this crawlspace left it crawling with bugs, mold and a drain pipe leak has been discovered!

Just finished this little fire damaged house off University. Bath, drywall, flooring, paint, kitchen, etc. Not a big p...
11/19/2021

Just finished this little fire damaged house off University. Bath, drywall, flooring, paint, kitchen, etc. Not a big place, but it looks sharp now. Ready for new tenants.

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San Diego, CA
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Monday 7:30am - 5pm
Tuesday 7:30am - 5pm
Wednesday 7:30am - 5pm
Thursday 7:30am - 5pm
Friday 7:30am - 5pm

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Specializing in cosmetic and structural updates and remodels, room additions, water damage restoration, mold remediation and waterproofing. We are a full service general contractor. The majority of our work is residential.