" -We've only got a couple of weeks to go before the first family moves in, right? And here's the ballroom plenty of transformation. The, the paint job is really nice, John."

" -Oh, what do you call this color?"

" -Well, it's a grey that we matched to work with the draperies and worked with the border that goes around this room."

" -Alright, so there are details yet to come."

" -Yes. Yes."

" -They will bring real life into the room but grey and white as a background is a very smart place to go."

" -Thank you."

" -Yeah. The chandeliers are back."

" -Yes, they've been completely re-wired, they've been cleaned, polished, all the crystals have been polished and the proportion has been changed slightly to make it a little more graceful in the room."

" -So, it is not as close as it was."

" -Right."

" -I can see the plastic is still on 'cause there's a lot of dust in here."

" -Yeah, the floors are gonna be refinished and we'll just gonna fold that."

" -How many coats of paint are on these walls?"

" -One coat of primer and two coats of finish paint."

" -Okay, so it has a been, have you've been spraying it?"

" -Well, just because of time, the constraints of time"

" -Yes."

" -we sprayed the first coat the rest have been brushed."

" -Okay, and then this, when I was here last, we were just looking at it as a brand new opening, it was being created and now it's looking pretty complete."

" -Well, then two that's gonna be draped with the curtains that hang in here so it'll just look like you're going to a portiere."

" -Exactly, well Sam and I we're here just a few days ago it seems."

" -Right, right."

" -Doing a little progress report."

" -Now this is the ballroom here at the Executive Mansion and we've got Sam Daniels who's the project manager. What's happening in this space? This looks like it's the staging area right now for all the carpenters, right?"

" -Yes, that, that's correct. We have all of the wood material here for the entire building. The upstairs area is not large enough to have these racks, so we're storing it all here."

" -But all of these [unk] that's been milled is primarily for the new construction of the private quarters, right?"

" -That's right."

" -You're trying to save all the historic fabric of the house?"

" -That's right. Only, the only new material here is the new base material."

" -The baseboards and I know some panels have to be replaced."

" -Some panels have been replaced because of rotting."

" -And what about this grand pocket doors, what's happening here?"

" -Well, on the other side we're doing a patch."

" -Well, the patching has to do with probably where it wore against the hardware when it was coming in out."

" -That's right."

" -And what's the material you use for that?"

" -It is an epoxy resin."

" -Just an epoxy resin?"

" -That's right."

" -So this will all be"

" -It's gonna be painted just as it is now."

" -Yeah, that's why you had to pull it all the way out. And is there some aspect of this that it's tied in to the HVAC system."

" -Yes, when the doors are fully opened, the opening where the door passes is used as a return air grill."

" -So that gas it's about three inches, that space is connected with the dotwork."

" -It's connected with the HVAC System, as the air it supplies in this area, it is returned here, it goes back to the unit and it gets reconditioned and it, it's put back into the room."

" -'cause it- it's a closed,"

" -It's a closed system and this method of returning cause this to not have an ugly grill that we would have to then conceal or find a way to be out of [unk]."

" -Pretty sure, sure."

" -Now the elevators over there, you're making a lot of progress to that?"

" -Oh there's a lot happened on that since you saw it last."

" -Now in this end of the ballroom, this was originally a window, right?"

" -Yes, this was a window. It's now been made an opening so we can get to the north edition."

" -And what have they done to the panels here?"

" -Well, in some of the windows we had some, some rotting and the panels had to be replaced. Those that could have been repaired were repaired. This one was in such bad shape we had to replace it. This is a piece of [unk] material, the pencil line indicates the, other line of the applied moldings that will go."

" -Which will match with what's above?"

" -We'll replicate what's above."

" -Yeah, okay, so now this is a passage way and this is essentially the elevator lobby."

" -That's right. We have the elevator lobby here and then this is the opening to the elevator shaft. At this time they're stringing the cables on to the sheaves. It's a traction elevator. It's pulled up by the cabling."

" -Most elevators have the cabling way up on top in the head house?"

" -That's right. In this case we couldn't do that because in order to maintain the lines of the building, the proper roof line, we had to put all of the mechanism at the bottom of the elevator. This is called a basement mounted traction elevator."

" -The pulleys and the cables and the works are all there in the cap?"

" -They're all at the bottom. You can see the machine down here and the sheaves are here, the pulleys that, with the cabling that pulls the elevator."

" -Okay, now what kind of technology is this?"

" -This is a state of the art traction elevator."

" -What's it cost to put an elevator like this?"

" -This particular elevator because of many constraints that we had to work with had to do with size and so forth is 150,000 dollars."

" -This oval dining room is part of the 1906 edition."

" -Yes, that's right"

" -What's"

" -Built in 1906."

" -What's the scope of work in here?"

" -Well, other than new electrical and mechanical, we're skim coating the ceiling to cover up all the cracks that have happened over the years, through the sagging of the, the ceiling."

" -Okay."

" -And a coat of paint to new [unk]."

" -Speaking of paint, I mean there's a lot of paint on the wood work in here. It's like every governor added a different color."

" -That's about right, once every four years you can count on a new coat of paint in here."

" -So that could be about 20 coats?"

" -That's right."

" -And here you had to remove all the paneling, the surrounding paneling from this window. What was the problem here?"

" -Wooden transfer that is coming around the window has rotted the panel. You'll see we're now patching the masonry here to help take care of that problem."

" -And then this will be insulated before you will rebuild it."

" -Yes, right."

" -Now is this the panel that you're saying was there?"

" -Yes, this is the panel that came out. You can see the bad condition at its end"

" -Yeah."

" -and so we're replacing it with this, this new insert in the same old framework. This is a piece of MDO plywood, that's a medium density overlay."

" -Right."

" -And then the applied molding will be applied to this."

" -Right."

" -and it will look just like it use to."

" -So wherever possible you retain the original fabric of the room?"

" -Exactly."

" -Where it's impossible we use new products."

" -That's right."

" -So Sam, just weeks away from finishing, right?"

" -By six it's all we've got left."

" -Good luck."

" -Thanks."

" -Okay John Paul, here in the old governor's office, I know that we've done some restoration. This is an original over door treatment."

" -Right."

" -And these doors have been buried and hidden so these are restored decorations to match out."

" -Right."

" -And here, of course, is our- our mantle piece and it is not necessarily been restored, it's been conserved, right?"

" -The conservation technique was to keep it all the material that we had missing, replacing some missing almost, but basically leaving intact the original imprints."

" -Yeah, so it's conserve more or less in the condition that we"

" -Exactly."

" -That we have it without adding pieces to it, right?"

" -Right, right."

" -Yeah, well, it looks beautiful."

" -Craig has a beautiful job on it. He really has. Very very nice."