Old Stone House

Preserving our past ... creating our future

Monday, October 5, 2009

Working on the house

Terry Cole and his team came in like gangbusters.

The guys removed the old mortar from all four outside walls and in the basement. They went back and put in the proper limestone mortar mix, added a few more stones, repaired or made new thresholds, worked around the windows, fixed the joists in the basement and welcomed Joe Pitsor just about everyday. They put up with Deb asking a million questions and taking even more pictures.

Here's a video showing the work as it was being done and the finished product. Notice the rocks looking very prominent in the beginning, and then smoothed out in the end of the video. See the water wagon? Jeff Burkley came every weekend twice a day and watered the building. This help set the mortar.