About Juniper Works

Who we are

We're Aaron and Gavin. We're doing this work ourselves, on the house we live in, and filming all of it. Gavin edits the long-form videos, and we both swing hammers.

We're not here to tell you how to do your house. We're showing you how we did ours: the reasoning, the plans, the mistakes we made and how we fixed them.

The house

It's a normal 1980s house: stone and lap siding outside, a metal roof, and an attic that had been quietly cooking for forty years. Like most homes from that era it was under-insulated, the ductwork was tired, and some of the framing had cracked or sagged.

Why we started with the attic

The attic is where most of a house's comfort problems start. Ours hit triple digits every summer, the old flex duct was falling apart, and critters had made themselves at home. So we started at the top: we had plans drawn, brought in a structural engineer, and began tearing the old attic off to rebuild it properly.

That means new framing, new ductwork, a new roof and insulation that actually works. It also means everything we learned along the way, including the parts nobody puts in the highlight reel.