Eppington Plantation Siding and Shutters

Our restoration work on the 18th Century Eppington Plantation in Chesterfield is coming along smoothly. We have finished scraping, sanding, and priming the siding and it is ready to be painted.

We carefully built new louvres to restore the shutters; making sure that every detail matched the existing.

The finished product... ready for priming and painting!

We installed all new drainage to keep the Plantation house dry. This is the cement shoe of that system.

Setting columns at Hilary Baker house

These solid wood columns took weeks of restoration, but where can one buy entire trees to set on their deck anymore? We took extra care in setting the columns because we don't want to undo any of our hard work on either the columns or the ipe deck.

Before and after of column restoratio

Rebuilding columns and bases for two different porches

We are building bases from reclaimed antique pine for the solid columns that we repaired last week. While I've been getting these bases and capitals ready for installation, we've has been putting the final touches on the ipe deck. [The beautiful wood you see underneath the capitals and bases is heart pine tongue and groove deck board, fabricated by Van Jester Woodworks and to be soon installed in Eppington Plantation.]

The following salvaged columns are being restored for a mansion on Monument Avenue. We are rebuilding the front porch which was unfortunately removed years ago. The techniques used to work on these columns are partly inspired by the writings of John Leeke, though Mr. Leeke has nothing on RBVa's very own.