Project:Pergola, Day One

Mark and his work crew came by today to demolish the rotting pergola. It was worse than originally suspected. The posts were not, as Wing was told when he bought the house, cemented. They had metal 'shoes' bolted on them, and then inserted under the bricks, with sand on them. Had that tree that fell last year had hit it sideways rather than straight down, it would have torn the barge board and gutters down. Also, the entire structure came down way too easily for comfort.



Before and after the tear down











We did find another hidden bit of damage. The gutters along the back of the house are rusted/rotted through. Easily enough fixed. Mark took a section that wasn't too badly rotted to