" Last week we still had a rough and kind of this 20th century real, rental real estate right?"

" That's right."

" Now. We've got left to remove is I guess a slab with asphalt tile floor."

" Right. The slab will come up, and, become a planting bed."

" And, is this the original facade you exposed?"

" We've exposed the original brick and this is actually an original window jam that had been closed up for many years."

" Yes."

" We gotta restore the sill I guess."

" We gotta epoxy on a new par pine sill."

" What happened to the brick here?"

" Well, the, the previous owner had tried to remove the paint using sand blasting."

" Ahhh, such a shame."

" That's just probably years of lime and white wash and the like."

" Right."

" And that's a big no no. Anytime you've got antique masonry you don't hit it with a sand blasting."

" No. We would typically try water pressure or something, a, that abrases."

" Yes. What's going on at the top here where the siding's still missing?"

" Well, they had to remove the original water table brick at a water core's brick and we've got to replicate those and put them back and then the siding will shed--"

" -Sure. right over on the top of the brick."

" And the water table brick is slanted so the water physically runs off."

" Yes."

" Now what we've got left over here, do you suppose this is original structural timber for your-"

" To the original port."

" Yes. We've taken all the other joysoft and, and left original framing in the middle."

" Yes. Funny how they let the joys in into that carrying beam in the middle right there."

" The 3x4 joyster real typical for a Charleston porch."

" Marvelous."

" Well, let's go up top and look at it closer. The columns we found underneath the house stored away for us and, we're reusing them--"

" -So this at least--"

" - in the portico."

" -tells you how high the, the portico would have been."

" Right and it gives us a lot at, about the style of the house, the federal style."

" Sure. How many, what is the layout with the columns? How many do you have?"

" Well, we've got the two half columns against the house and we won't have--"

" Those would be, those would be piled last right?"

" Yes."

" And four columns out front will be twin double column."

" So this one will right over here?"

" Yes."

" We're real lucky we have just enough railing to reuse."

" This is a profile of the section."

" What kind of wood is it?"

" This is longleaf pine which is, was typically what they would use in this period."

" This is also, I mean, this is new press-treated southern yellow pine."

" Right--"

" -but they look different."

" -There's a big difference. You can see the, the width and the growth rings here."

" Yes."

" This is a very fast-growing tree whereas; this was a very slow-growing. This may be 50 years."

" This is virgin forest."

" Right."

" This is commercially grown."

" Right."

" Wow. Now, where does this go? How does it get put together?"

" Well, all the columns were mordest to receive the, the actual railing."

" Yes."

" Just like that. And even the balusters are pickets where tenant--"

" Mordest and tenant. Isn't that amazing?--"

" -into the railing."

" -Yes. And you've got the spacing already there for you so that part of the archeology is all done."

" We'll use that same system."

" Wonderful."

" So these are about 10 feet high and you know at least up to the top what it should look like. But what about the roof? How did you design that?"

" Well, we had to do some research and look into old pattern books."

" Yes."

" What would be appropriate for that?"

" Yes."

" And this is what we've drawn."

" This looks good."

" So this is the, the top of the column down here."

" Right."

" And this starts the entablature of the cornice."

" Wonderful."

" This is the entablature. This is the actual roof."

" Right."

" And this is what you call the parapet."

" Right."

" And the parapet helps when you have a flat, fairly flat roof to give it a feel of a, a railing or a baluster rod."

" Let's go up and see how you're gonna build that."

" Hey, this is great out here. We must be what? 20, 30 feet off the ground?"

" Yes. It's good--"

" Nice. It's nice to get this close up to the founda, the the facade way up here and look at the detailing. I hadn't noticed, this this, this pair of brackets way up here."

" Yes. Those are hand carved Cyprus brackets."

" They're really quite ornate."

" This gable ends up above. That's all original right?"

" It is and you can see this tar line where there was a porch that had been added unto in the 1880's that we've removed."

" So there was a first floor porch of, as we've just seen and a second storey too was added later."

" -Wow--"

" -Well, it's nice that we're restoring the facade to the original proportions. And here, we have the parapet."

" Right. And it's, as you can see it's basically a stud wall."

" Yes. It's about 16 inches high, 18 maybe."

" All built out of pressure treated lumber."

" Yes. And we'll have our seeding going on now and then around the corner here; you can see this is the cold molding."

" Now, you have to have that milled right?"

" Right. But it was a stock item at a local lumber store."

" Yes."

" And this calf that goes on top of the parapet to shed water, we sawed this here on the site with the table saw and then a, used a electric plane and felt sander."

" So most of it, is just a, job built right here on site."

" Right."

" Wonderful."

" And this cold molding would just go a. Fit this right here, it'll just fit -"

" Right in place."

" Right in place and then is there an additional molding that goes a--"

" Well, there will be, this, in this calf would just go on top. I That's pretty simple actually."

" Now, since you're making it all out of PTL, pressure treated lumber, do you have to wait a long time before you can put a, a coat of paint on it?"

" Our standard procedure is to let this weather a little bit before we prime and paint it."

" Yes."

" So we'll let this weather for a month or so."

" Right."

" Now, the other I'm noticing is there's copper roofing around the perimeter which you can see from the street but up here you got rubber roofing. Well, we felt it wasn't necessary to use the expense, expensive material copper on this inner porch area."

" Yes."

" So we use the copper where you see it or if we need it."

" Makes a lot of sense."