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House Six: Portico Restoration plus Hardscaping and Landscaping
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" The elmwood neighborhood is full of beautiful historic houses from the nineteenth century this one dates to 1892. Sadly many of them were really neglected back in the sixties and seventies this one became a boarding house. Inside it's got original -- archway it's a beautiful staircase lots of built -- like a dining room -- out front the remains of a beautiful colonial revival portico is what the owners berry Jean Murray and Celeste to -- Are about to restore."
" It's ten or fifteen years before we decided that we really wanted to live in elmwood it was an upper income. Section of Providence and then we saw the Charles cocktails. And the column with. But his historic house and it was that the historic plaque because. The -- were in -- on what. One of the things this porch really is the central focus of the house. The cat. With the pressure treated wood can be made out of me. Here we can't the balance here it's in the air I had not spaced correctly that -- had been broken and the kind. Earthquakes and in off of the they. The Collins. Is that the same material which was used it yet and the top -- off at the top. Is we need to replace a baluster."
" Bob Ryley gets together with contractor Terry Bates to get started on demolition. And so this is the profile here that whereas will be sent in this part of that Nowak. And I -- they're going to be replacing all these relative Barak's. On on the fourth that hasn't been rarely. And it looks like if someone sticking bubble government. Really it. This half finial here is the only one that we have -- tops of all of the -- top and bottom so we're lucky to have. That's the only -- that we'll be saving that and -- in -- we'll get replaced as well. I'm pretty sure we're gonna have this come -- into pieces but. I hope that's all. Expected been a lot of patching in oh it's it's all putty and paint. Putting paint make the job what it ain't. And that's going to be going like that. Now we're gonna take the balusters out so that we can send them to Forester as well okay."
" Well hope we don't break."
" It comes. Or whether it was quite a bit -- party. Look at that. We can see how rotten the base and relatives. And I would take this bottom rail. In and that that replaced as well as like a slight pitch going on it right in the -- also should be up off the deck so that water doesn't get trapped underneath it here. Okay."
" Bob Ryley Terry Bates and Glen Naylor remove the rest of the balusters and railings that'll be replicated by Forester moulding. The next job is to Jack up the porch to remove the columns for paint stripping and repair. --"
" look at that it is this is solid base. Why am CNN analyst at all right -- a lot of you can put an electric line -- and it -- like that so it couldn't breathe up the middle. That's that they could really survive on that Brian. That episode that would place that they fearful. This is growing -- I don't do it which of -- solid it's. This is the successful -- inadequate. -- And it's as originally and it does that tall island on the pressure treated decking will come off. Well."
" Going to capitol apparently."
" If this."
" Not only no joist hanger on this. Not many nails Dana. There's only one nail in this to a hangar where they'll so going to have to be put in -- and done everything securely now I can see how this whole -- it's strange looks like in the middle -- try to break the span of these two by six's. That this kind of Jimmy rate accurate system. Down here the people what which that's got to be concrete. Tonight we'll put in new Sonatube probably in closer to the foundation here and cut out a beam pocket over there for our carrion being thrown back over here with the girt pocket. Over to a Sonatube there support at all and hey -- I don't thought."