We continue to get porch repair work and we're happy to have it. The latest case is some rot that has overtaken an Italianate Style house on East Grace Street up in Church Hill. We are replacing the decking, the framing, and the lattice.... restored with historical accuracy of course!
Normally, with wood columns, we would jack up a porch roof in order to suspend it while we replace the decking, but with wrought iron columns that's not option so we built a bracing system.
Our Carpenters used two 2x8's to be the point where the jacks hold up the roof.
We then end up with the issue that the entire porch would collapse if we simply jacked it up from the bottom, so we braced the structure to the North Side wall using 2x4s.
Our Carpenter Ben, and Apprentice Chad are hard at work putting together the deck frame.
When completed, the clients will have a fantastic new deck to compliment the beautiful wrought iron railing and columns.
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