When we first walked through our home, one of the things that we noticed was that one of the stone pillars on our porch was leaning. We knew we'd have to get it repaired someday, but that day came very recently!
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This is what we have had to look at since we bought our house!
The stone pillar in the background of the picture was not exactly vertical either,
so it needed to be repaired as well. |
Pat Drury of
Drury Designs was brought on board to help coordinate the repairs we'd need to make to our 111-year-old porch. In addition to the leaning pillar, we also had some problems with the porch roof leaking, but that will be covered in a future blog post. We will also have more lighting installed along the entire length of the porch. We are really looking forward to that!
The first thing that had to happen was that our mason, Aaron from Vanden Avond Masonry, had to take the pillars apart layer by layer. Then, Eric from
Roffers Concrete Construction had to come and dig out the old footings. He had to go four feet down! After that, he had to pour new footings for the repaired pillars. The final step was for Aaron to reassemble the pillars.
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| The disassembled pillars. |
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| Eric removing concrete debris. |
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| The excavating begins! |
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| Four feet down. |
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| The first part of the footings have been poured. |
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The rest of the footing has been poured.
The forms around the outside had to stay on for several days. |
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| This is all that you can see of the footings - the rest of it is buried under four feet of topsoil. |
Now that the pillars have been reassembled, we are so glad that we can cross off another thing on our list of renovations.
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The stone pillars have been put back together... and they aren't leaning!
The mason did a nice job of making the mortar look aged, so these repaired pieces don't stand out
compared to those that didn't need repairs. |
