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Final Tour of the Restored and Furnished Porch

House five of the Elmwood project. Bob tours the finished project and discusses the new porch. Better grading and gutters have been added to prevent future water damage.
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Final Tour of the Restored and Furnished Porch

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" Well Terry the house came out beautiful from the finial on the Coppola on down the shingles have been repaired and of course the porch is all back together the main thing that we -- here to do. We've got a brand new railing with moldings and spindles from Forester. On the topic on the bottom even the foundation had to be redone for this porch now the main thing that was problematic was that rain water had made it all rot what have you. Built in differently this time that it won't happen again."

" What we did is we rebuilt the trough of the built in gutter nature that it pitched to the -- downspout now that it runs out and down the downspout and finally what we did was re grade the yard. So that the water runs away from the foundation."

" Well Terry it came out beautifully congratulations thanks Bob thanks we'll take a closer look -- say -- to the homeowner. Well it's a beautiful color scheme mulberry with two shades of green and yellow for the spindles Judi Lee and wonderful choice of colors and it works very very nicely. To us and you've essentially furnished an outdoor room here haven't you it's another Arab. From plow and hearth catalogue thoughts and yes catalogue and Internet so what you got is a little glider yes. -- in -- that -- gets little pair of torches and well I accessories now where did you get the -- Beers -- Britain's gardens so that's local yes it's excellent choice well as I say you've got a beautiful outdoor garden. And I guess the winter's not too far away but you'll enjoy -- congratulate thank you very much."

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