River Ryan Renovators, CBRM Our work, in photos and videos

Every photo and video here is one of our own jobs around Cape Breton: tear-offs and new roofs, tile and plank floors, gyprock and paint, kitchens and full gut renos. Tap any of them for a closer look.

Showing all of our work

Ridge of a red shingle roof looking out over the ocean and a wooded headland — Red shingles, with a view of the water

Video of large marble-look ceramic tiles being laid on a diagonal — Marble-look ceramic tile, start to finish

Installer fitting a dark countertop below white shaker cabinets and a subway tile backsplash — Countertop going in under new shaker cabinets

Red drywall lift holding a ceiling sheet while two crew members fasten it — Ceiling sheets going up on the drywall lift

New pressure-treated deck with a red Adirondack chair, a hot tub and a privacy wall — New deck built around the hot tub

Detached garage with white siding and a new dark grey shingle roof — Garage reroof, finished

Two before photos of a gutted house above two after photos of the finished white kitchen — Before and after: gutted house to a white kitchen

Video of a kitchen going from bare subfloor to white cabinets, steel appliances and plank flooring — Kitchen reno, from bare floor to finished

Dining room with grey-brown plank flooring, a dark wood table and a globe pendant light — Wood-look plank floor in the dining room

Painter kneeling on drop cloths, rolling white paint on the wall under a staircase — Rolling paint under the stairs

Room gutted to the framing, with debris and old materials on the floor — Before: stripped to the studs

Finished room with white walls, new window trim, white doors and a wood-look floor — After: same job, finished

Close view of new grey architectural shingles running up to a brick chimney — New shingles, right up to the chimney

Video of two crew members laying grey plank flooring over a plywood subfloor — Laying plank flooring in a pine-walled room

Two crew members on ladders hanging drywall in a room with insulated walls — Hanging gyprock, ceiling first

Roof trusses partly covered in new OSB sheathing — Sheathing going on over new trusses

New single-storey house in house wrap with a new grey shingle roof — New build, roofed and wrapped

Before photo of a gutted room with plaster debris above the same room finished as a living room — Before and after: living room

Laser level on a tripod in front of a half-painted blue-grey wall — Laser level out for a clean paint line

Long one-storey building with blue scaffolding along the front and a new red roof — Commercial reroof, with staging along the front

Video of a painter in a protective suit spraying primer on a ceiling, then back-rolling it — Spraying a ceiling, then back-rolling it

Narrow hallway with a honey-coloured hardwood floor and stained wood door trim — Hardwood down the hallway

Roof partly stripped, with old shingle pieces scattered across it — Tear-off under way

Before photo of a gutted room with a new window above the same room finished as a dining room — Before and after: dining room

Old grey deck boards torn up around a covered hot tub — Before: the old deck coming up

Grey shingles being laid over printed synthetic underlay, with a nail gun on the roof — Shingles going on over the underlay

Gutted room with new framing, pink insulation and wiring — Framing, wiring and insulation, ready for board

Video of a tile cutter scoring a large marble-look tile, then fitting it — Cutting and fitting tile

Before photo of an insulated wall and door frame beside the finished room with a white door and dark accent wall — Before and after: new doors and trim

Flatbed truck loaded with pallets of shingles, a worker in a hi-vis vest beside it — Shingles arriving on the job

Sage green wall above white beadboard wainscoting — Wainscoting, primed and painted

Weathered deck boards pulled up and stacked against a fence — Old deck boards up and stacked

Two-storey house with grey siding and a brown shingle roof — New roof on a two-storey house

Before photo of a wall opened up beside the stairs with a new beam, beside the finished living room — Before and after: opening up by the stairs

Room with plastic over the furniture, drop cloths, a ladder and a paint tray — Covered and taped before the paint goes on

Video walking along a finished grey shingle roof on a sunny day — A finished roof, from the top

Roof covered in black underlayment, looking down toward a lake — Underlay down, ready for shingles

Before photos of a stripped room with insulation above the finished open living area — Before and after: open living area

Room stripped to the joists with insulation in the walls and sheathing on one side — Insulated and ready for gyprock

Worn, broken asphalt shingles with a red-handled roofing shovel — Old shingles coming off

White kitchen cabinets with under-cabinet lights above a white stove — Kitchen refresh

Large building wrapped in scaffolding and blue tarps, with a white trailer in front — Staging and tarps on a big commercial job

Video of ceramic tile being marked, cut and set on a floor — Ceramic tile, laid out and cut to fit

Two skylights on a roof stripped to the boards, with old shingles around them — Skylights, mid tear-off

Black dump trailer parked in the driveway of a red house — Dump trailer in for a tear-off

Aluminium scaffolding tower built in front of the Victoria Co-op Fisheries sign — Staging tower at Victoria Co-op Fisheries

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