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historical residential buildings in downtown Charleston . It ’ s a three-story , Italian Renaissance-style mansion , with a semi-circular piazza overlooking Charleston Harbor . The piazza and façades showed signs of wear and tear and we were called upon to restore it to its original grandeur .
“ It ’ s the most photographed home in Charleston , so we were very excited to work on it , but it didn ’ t happen without complications ,” Buz elaborates . “ The home was built in the mid-1800s . Our original method ( because of the age of the building ) was to use railroad tracks as structure to hold up brick parapet above openings between columns . So , we erected 45-foot-high scaffolding to take on the tedious job of removing all the rusted steel
tracks , while holding up 40,000 pounds of brick at the same time . It ’ s safe to say it was hair raising !
“ Another project we ’ ve worked on recently is a residential property
- One Water Street ,” Buz adds . “ This job saw us raise the home by eightand-a-half feet and then put the appropriate measures in place to support the structure for years to come . It was the first , and currently the only , all-brick historic structure in
Charleston to be raised .
Building a new home isn ’ t rocket science , but working on an older house is more of an operation than it is a construction site
Bringing Beauty & Artistry Into Every Space We Touch
Honed over decades , our precision process ensures that every detail is architecturally correct in proportion , scale , and design .
So every moulding , every piece of millwork , and every inch of paneling replicates the intricately hand-carved work of history ’ s greatest woodcrafters .
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