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Installing Staved Columns in the Vestibule and Front Hall

Bob meets with trim carpenter David Ives to discuss the staved columns he is installing to visually break up the vestibule and front hall.
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Installing Staved Columns in the Vestibule and Front Hall

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" Where the columns come for a visit from Pennsylvania there -- stable unit they've got eleven pieces and no usage staved. That means that each well is bound to states that -- indeed and you can see it there. And so that's the way they would have made a hundred years ago rest they would and and they -- tomorrow -- to get this column design like this is an. And they did the same thing on the front porch the same type of a columnist who now. You've created the same kind of pedestal here and you've backed it up with. What I guess would be called a pile -- up against the wall in this. All these elements coming together really helped define and separate what is harvesters from the main hall now how do you put the column in -- well we have these."

" Measured just exactly to fit. And what they do is all right in -- well -- And laid out so that they go in very soon because this is the final detailing here. And it's -- ago when it's clean it's possible. And that's just exactly how it goes in just a few adjustments here and that's that and then we actually put nails -- it yes it will be test to find test. And then it gets set to go great."

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