" In addition to the porch restoration a few other improvements are also underway like this home security system from ADT. The new landscape plan includes a patio in the backyard made of riven stones from. But at half the cost. Steve Moore from architectural brass is removing the antique hardware from the front door for polishing and restoration back at his workshop. We're also adding an automatic sprinkler system from green lawn. Our lighting designer Markus Earley has found these bronze exterior light fixtures from leukemia. They are recessed in the porch deck to provide up like illumination for the columns and the porch ceiling. And all of the stone and brick for the front landscape restoration also came from. Is being built. A new brick walk to the front door has been laid out and herringbone pattern. Using these Boston City Hall pavers that are a beautiful brick for landscape use and here which you've got is a very complicated. Lay out because not only as a herringbone which is laid. Against each other at ninety degrees but it's a curved walk it's rising it's not flat. And it gets real complicated little policy -- working at the other end over here started here at the mid point of the front steps. Right here and what he has to do is set a 45 degree angle that you see right here. And that is the key to getting the herringbone started on this site you can see he's already trimmed it out and that is all fine cuts."

" How do you how do you make the the cuts here and how do you lay out these odd shaped ones well usually I cut the brick with a chisel. But seeing that this particular brick has a hollow bottom need to cut the work what's OK so how do you market. While basically. Put the brick in position according to the pattern yeah and later and and -- and mark that went straight edge and make them. And off to the soft."

" All of the work is being milled here at Forester moulding in lemons to Massachusetts. One of their specialties is reproducing historic -- To reproduce the railing for our house a piece of the original is scanned into a computer and a profile is created in high density plastic. Using a computer aided design program. A grinder is used to create knives for the molder. In a process similar to copying a key the steel assumes the shape of the profile. To mill the curved gooseneck risers pieces of western red cedar are glued together with a -- exterior polyurethane glue. To form the appropriate thickness. The pieces are clamped until the Lewis set the knife is placed into the head of a tilting head molder the molder can position the knife at any angle. A template is screwed onto the curve of the western red cedar. It'll guide the piece through the molder and keep the cutting knife in the correct position. It'll take several passes through the molder to cut the profile a different knife must be used for each pass. First the back not just cut. Then the top profile is cut. And finally the sides are cut with a molder head slightly tilted in a horizontal position to match the profile. Only one pass is needed to make straight pieces of railing. This multi head moulding machine accommodates all of the knives needed to create the profile. A test piece is run to check the alignment of the knives. As a quality control check the test pieces are compared with the original profile until all of the adjustments are correct. Then the required length of railing for our job is run. To create the balusters a plastic profile is made using an original baluster as a model the profile is placed in a copy. The operator makes sure that the piece of mahogany stock is centered and secure in the lay it. A pin follows the profile and adjusts the knife on the piece being turned to duplicate the balusters. Now it's time to install all of our millwork and see how it looks."

" So Terry's driving in screws through the bottom morale. These are stainless steel aren't they galvanized galvanized. And this is the preferred way of fastening all about spears to the bottom rail that you don't have to worry about slips. -- an alien from the top you could end up splitting the bottoms of these beautiful turned balusters. And let's stand -- definitely didn't see it. And the tops are nailed onto a lattice. And the lattice then will -- brought under the railing system. And get attached to the top of the railing."

" For a couple of wedges under it happened here."

" Data. -- Boy that looks handsome and it is a genuine. Re creation of what was here originally now how you install the last three balusters here."

" We'll cut them. For the riser here Markham -- make a pattern. And we use the band saw in the shop and then we'll toenail him and that's because he'd have to getting that exact. Section of curve at the top of each baluster right and we lay out each riser. Identically so the baluster that's going to fit here will also fit the rest of the ones that right."