Church Hill's Newest Pink Lady

Restoration Builders of Virginia has recently had the privilege of working on the house at 2100 East Broad Street, right at the bustling corner of 21st and East Broad Streets.

We've worked on this historic house before, and were coming back to do siding repair and to rebuild the front porch.

We took down old rotten siding boards, replaced them with new boards, properly backprimed, and installed with the correct fasteners. By replacing the siding with wood we preserved the historic look, feel, and value of this balloon framed house.

 Painters came behind us, scraping and then priming and painting the house a lovely pink. When headed East on Broad Street from City Hall, you can spot this Pink Lady from the opposite hill around 12th Street.

RBVA had done work on the front porch at 2100 several years ago, when the rails, columns, gutters, ceiling, and roof were all revamped. This year we came back for the deck. The concrete slab that had been there was no longer desireable, so we replaced it with brick piers, pressure treated framing, and tongue and groove flooring. The little touches like the grooved shoes for the columns (for water drainage), slope of the deck, and skirt and ogee trim around the outside edge of the framing, show our attention to detail and long term thinking involved in our construction.
 More pictures after the break...

Porch restoration

This poor porch needed a lot more work than we originally thought. We started with repairing the deck, quickly realized we needed to address awful framing rot (and previous repairs). Luckily the client allowed us to do it right, instead of trying to throw a band-aid on a flesh wound. The first floor deck is complete, and we've lifted the roof to allow us to rebuild the second floor deck. The rot in the framing of the deck was bad enough that it had rotted the tops and bottoms of columns around it. Rot is a fungus, it spreads! This house will be on the Church Hill Christmas Tour in a few weeks, good as new.