" This beautiful queen Anne Victorian with its elegant little barn sits on an oversized corner lot here in the elmwood historic district -- Judi Lee bought the house several years ago she immediately put a new roof on both structures but like most people who love to restore old houses she soon found out there was a lot more to be done."

" I'm -- selflessness and design and I fell in love with this house many years ago while walking to work up at Gorham manufacturing company. And this house is built in 1892 and I love this is the original decking porch baluster aids and spindles. And it has to be totally replaced -- there's what do damage is actually dripping now I love the porch. I can't wait to see it done because this is a wonderful feature of the house I love this side."

" Last week Bob Ryley was here with local restoration contractor Terry Bates doing some exploratory demolition to determine how we're gonna tackle this job. I'm Bob. Probably want to start with -- is taking this railing apart OK. I think looks like -- opera house so that that should it's pretty loose it should come off."

" Shingles -- coming and it. We had planned to rekindle this fourth of the built over. It look like we were going to be able to save it."

" Trying to put it so well at the whole thing is it register left could not all of this stuff. -- up and taken back to the shop. The -- it isn't -- re mill everything that -- all so bad it's gone none of that this is really what samples salvaging the grain has opened up and it's just gone. And it should lift right up through. Okay Bob now let's go down and take some ceiling down and see what these floor joists or roof rafters look like and what kind of water damage we have okay."

" We had pigeons living in here at one point. --"

" Case that look like. And it doesn't look too bad over here. Actually it does look at all except for where these ceiling. Supports have rotted off and that's what give us the spring in the field. That -- need to be replaced we can replace that and put a new ceiling an -- keep the rafters and the roof deck itself looks pretty solid out here where I was worried about it. -- Clearly I think we're lucky."

" Yeah well that's good noting keep the -- roof rafters anyway but there's still some water damage over here especially in -- outside trying to. It's -- really in bad shape -- I think that that the trough in the trough over there filled up with."

" Water -- dirt everything and overflowed the corner and -- occasional -- you have to have a came down it's it. When it came on down them really spread this post base and I'm down just ruined this -- and night and went on down and ruined the foundation. Okay. From a trillion to take these -- and replace them. And then and then remove hard down and replace this wall. So what about this this in -- confident that looks like it's a one piece cap. Bob I think we'll get it -- problem paints looks like it. OK coming you know. I can't and I believe that Iraq might. Can -- hear is this did some writing here it's -- just just continuation from that honorable Bob look at all that. In the sense that."

" We knew we were planning to read now this all points that -- floor joists. "

" A new two by six wall along after we rebuild the foundation here where the water damages."

" As if this forming down they're pretty significant yeah."

" This is not an original right here now did the older railing came out right here and came out and curved around because this wasn't a but a common deck tortured. I begged for benchmark right back porch and and the bench would typically sit in this area so what we'll do is cantilever a new floor joist out put new decking on here. No new deck on here OK welcome we stand that take it's Bob I don't see why not okay."

" Really it."

" Now the detailing on the foundation of the house is pretty and usually it's it's a brick that's been laid kind of in a Flemish bond but it's made with. A very unusual brick you know it's almost like seconds they're kind of fat and chunky and you see a brick end and then a full brick and you get this texture on it. It's OK on the house but of course on the porch is all shot are masonry contractor -- and Iraq so we'll show us what's what's the condition is here."

" It's totally crumbling isn't -- so that the way that it was built they kind of just used it as a face brick but inside they just a lot of broken chunk and mortar yes they -- it and the water that in his broader loop in the morning. But -- to highlight. Yet there was a lot of lineman and morning and the moisture getting in breaks it now what are you standing on though right now that's a good stone foot and over here which. Will be able to build right on it. So that's probably granite that was put down -- as the original footing. How are you gonna rebuild it what I want to know when -- Some solid four inch concrete block OK so first you throw down some some cement -- you start building up. If the solid block right would -- that whatever it jewelry. And we build. That -- brick veneer pollutants and -- writ that we read which would admit it is frequently that you're going to be able to at least try to get that."