As mentioned a while back, we worked with contractors to address the huge amount of dry rot on the exterior features of our house.
First, the final before and after photos. Studio building pergola and door before (first two pics) and after. The door was reframed with metal, which will prevent future rot issues.
Southeast corner of the Great Room. Note the huge hole from years of water dripping down into all the bits. The solution was to clean out the rot, seal things and simplify the facade.
Remember the awful pillar of rot? Third pic is how it is now.
Then there was the front arbor, which was just a mess. The entire pillar shown below and several beams along the top had to be replaced, all because the POs didn’t have it painted properly–whoever did the work didn’t seal things, or bother to paint the top sides of this or either of the two pergolas. You just can’t make up this sort of lazy stupidity.
Second pair of pics is how they look now; last is a picture of the finished arbor with the jasmine piled back on to it.
Think I was kidding about the POs not taking care of things? Here’s the top of the pergola outside the great room (first pic). This shot was taken in August of last year shortly after we moved in to the house. The second one was taken this past winter.
Some shots of the restored pergola outside of the great room. Of course we had to hack back the jasmine, but it’ll go crazy next spring and summer, so we’re not too worried.
Lastly, we had them sand, seal and paint our front doors. It’s hard to tell in the before photo but the bottom area of the doors was starting to deteriorate.
All in all a very productive, if slightly expensive, project. We still have a few areas we need to tidy up, but we’re no longer in danger of a large section of the house falling down due to rot.