" I looked at several pieces of property in the city of Providence and this is the one that I really settled on being in the design business I had a great passion for this house. When I saw the house originally it had been divided up into fourteen units and I had them all restored back. They had sealed off the front door when they divided the house up and used this as the main entrance this used to be a cluster of columns on either side holding up this bay. They had removed the columns fortunately stored them in the basement. And sealed this off and made to stand close. Enclosure for the main entrance to the house. Finding the columns in the house on the original capitals. The bases and the columns in good shape is considered original number. They had been stored for I and I think about thirty years and the plan is to have them put back into where they used to be and this whole section."

" Steve Barnes from BB and GC the general contractor on the job and -- it's. Give us follow -- Just a small vestibule his men have already removed a lot of the work that was put on here maybe thirty years ago all the clobbered and siding that was put on on the exterior of the porch to close it is. On the inside the fellows took away all the little one plywood quarter inch stuff that was put in the panelize that make it look like a little for there. And now we're kind of at the final stage of some this demolition and Steve what is it to try to do up there. We're trying to find out why this bay window is sagging barbed. Inside of the -- could see that the sashes the homeowner had them caught. They had to be cut from an inch to three inches on the other side some of the ceilings have cracked that's a lot of sagging and yet there doesn't seem to be any evidence down here of rotting wood or or foundation settlement or anything like that that is correct you're thinking maybe there's damage to the timber up there. I hope not must take a look there. I don't know Steve it looks pretty clean from here. No lottery think they'll visible rot at all no visible rot -- soft lumber that's maybe. Whenever thirty years old when it when it was quoted. So if there's no rot and there's no foundation damage. Why do you think it's act I think it was just under frank. Probably need a header in the center of the unit over they want to take off the tongue and groove ceiling yeah now what we're what we're looking at it appeared. Is basically. A six inch member. Yes and we don't know what's going in that direction underneath all the way to this wall that's correct so I guess the next thing to do is to remove the porch that's correct all right. We'll leave Steve Barnes and his crew to finish up the demolition on the side porch and meanwhile we'll check in on some of the other exterior projects here at the mansion."

" In addition to the porch restoration work we're also going to be doing a lot of landscape. The first step is to power rake the yard before receding and replanting. First we unload the bobcat with the power rake attachment. Because this is a large month a power rake is more economical for preparing the soil than a roto -- The power rake is much wider and larger than a roto tiller and John fruit -- greens keeper is able to cover this large yard very quickly. While the power raking continues let's get together with the architect and building inspector to try to determine the cause of our sagging bay window."

" Anytime you find yourself with a structural question in the middle of home improvement project it's a good idea to bring in the professionals and right now we're gonna talk with David -- was a consulting architect -- Iran and -- Paxton who knows you're also an architect that you work with and special services here's a sentiment regardless -- instructor okay so let's talk about what the building inspector says first. What do you think of the structure."

" Come here previously taken looked kind of on the way and I noticed we have a permit in the window which is required we check for excessive settlement or any evidence of settlement -- rodents like looked at before the plaster and political twister has been -- so I didn't find any diagonal cracks to speak of right. The owner. Jim told me that there had been some opening of the floorboards what they hadn't moved in five years so that's evidence that the settlement has stopped and -- have you look at. -- foundation for example we haven't excavated to look at the foundation first we want to know we have a real reason to look at the foundation. And it's possible that when the original columns were taken out and these thoughts were put in recent settlement -- yet we found no cracks in the bricks below us in the brick piers. We found no evidence of racking of those piers or their relationship before the difference of the --"

" Right so most likely when they took out those big solid beautiful columns and put up spindly two by four's here. Well what do you think it."

" Well I think probably have a little something about time it looks like it's been arrested now. I think I think once we take care of off putting something back in place. Beefing up thoughts on this structure of -- little bit inadequate now we'll go what you recommend. What we're going to recommend is this is a solid piece of lumber now we'll take that take that out and replace it with some manufactured lumber. -- laminated veneer lumber or LVL's. We'll place that with two new pieces there and then these pieces that are rather shallow up here that -- thing for him up the floor we're going to put out we'll call sister next to each of those."