Here’s an interesting detail photo.
And no, it’s not because Marcello is standing in the corner talking on a phone in an early 1800’s house. lol
Here you can see we have extracted the first floor floor joists. They were sagging and bouncy and had seen their best years. We had carefully removed the flooring and would reinstall it just as it originally was was over top of a new insulated floor system.
Notice that the fireplace had long ago been bricked off and a hole had been created so that a wood stove could be vented. The one feature that draws my eye is the hearth and the support stonework that had held it up all these years… just a primitive stack of rock with smooth layer of cement at the top for all to see.
Originally posted 2015-06-12 13:23:42.