Rebuilding a staircase in 1870s house.

An important job in this project is of course the stairs.

To be able to remove the old and install new 1x7x3/4 treads and risers, we had to suspend the railing from the ceiling.

White House of The Confederacy Porch Restoration: Meanwhile.. back in the shop....

If you go by the White House of The Confederacy you may notice something.. a lot of the porch is missing! That's because we took them back to the shop and are working on them there. (Note: This is not wood original to the structure, rather wood used to repair the porch in either in the 1980s or 90s)

Jerrett is cleaning the oil and grease build up off some of the boards. They were milled out of joists from a factory, so any boards that were cut from the outside edge have one original (and dirty) plane.

The lumber is sorted by usable length/quality

 

Before epoxy work to reuse them...

After epoxy... 

Floorboards stacked, clean, and ready for priming! 

On the right, primed boards. Jerrett works on more epoxy on the center stack.