Now You See Them, Now You Don't

The restoration work continues on our porch and quite a bit has happened since our last update.  Pat and the team from Drury Designs discovered some dry rot in the beam supporting the radius of the porch and some rotted support beams on the underside of the porch.  Some of this was expected with the age of the house and all of it will be taken care of.

The team continued the work by supporting the corner from below and across in order to remove the wooden pillars and prep for the removal of the stone columns.

The porch corner is well supported during the restoration.

Soon afterwards, the mason arrived with the heavy equipment needed to carefully take down the columns and move the heavy pieces of stone.  The mason stacked and marked each stone such that he will know exactly how it needs to be rebuilt once the new footings are in place.

Where did the stone columns go?

We sure hope that Pat checks all the licenses of his sub-contractors.  While the mason certainly did good work, we are concerned that he is a bit young.

The mason?

We are very pleased with the progress that has been happening with our porch.  It is exciting to see this sore spot of the house get the attention it needs.