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Installing the Mantel
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Installing the Mantel
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" And originally built this metal with face nailed on to. The wall and now that we're re attaching -- we're just using a large mending -- as you can see here that -- attachment to these blocks. And that comes straight over to to the masonry. Break of the of the chimney and -- shields there which will hold it in place so that that keeps any new fasteners from going. Into it and even ever have to be removed and and and worked on again can be done so very very easily. While going from the the heating technology of the early eighteen hundred's back by about fifty or sixty years. Recently we learn that there's a new house being built that replicate the technology of the seventeen hundred fifties out in colonial Williamsburg. Carlin what night are gonna hook up and show you some of those ideas including mental things. Okay but now here in colonial Williamsburg you're looking at kind of an earlier but if you're sixty years technology for making chimney pieces metals and fireplaces this is not. Quite elaborate -- chimney pieces a lot of masonry talked about but. Garland would who's that and the builder here at Williamsburg the head carpenter they Garland. Let's say this is a very interesting project in that it has archeological roots right there once I was a big chimney here et cetera and."
" We started working on the -- years before we ever -- later and look -- excellent -- fifteen years ago archaeologists at colonial effort uncovered what looks like a seller. And very foundations and compared to say so all the brick courses that are moss covered in darkened our original eighteenth interview -- about 1755. All right. And we determined they were such good six that we could just build right on top of yet. This vault as it -- was really -- a seller right. That's it may well have been a one seller and I -- an original stare at the house of the building that leads on the ground and that -- and of course we have to. -- relieve these joists to go across the vault which are what Kevin's getting right now and adds. They and he's just taking up enough that timber so that when it lies. Down over the barrel vaulted who could fit snugly. Typical of eighteenth century carpentry and joinery here we've got a wonderful huge piece timber and in the top awaiting a notch better half of it so that what you. When you knock this over and put it down there you really could become more like a four inch joist rather than an eight Kevin are you ready to move this over. -- Let's put it. So don't. Although both are simply not going to get it at that. Thank you think. At night but now this will be. A basic timber frame right just looking at the corner over here. -- you -- shows the second floor in this wave races in the corners we actually spent the last year making all this material making all the material letting it dry out and get ready now so much care went into the rain of these structures what about the interior -- this was and ancillary -- it was an answer. Yes but it it's close to the house and so it's gonna have a higher degrees minutes and -- the other in -- interior finishes. Inside will be fairly point will be plastered. But what we will have crown molding will -- when he -- wood paneled doors."
