The First Snag

These photos are from Tuesday, July 22nd.  The brick piers have been demolished and the second floor railings have been removed (See bottom photo).  Once the piers were out of the way, we got our first good look at the supporting beams under the porch.  Many of the beams were significantly deteriorated due to moisture damage; worse than we expected (see top photo).  We hoped to be able to salvage the understructure, but all of the porch's 14 beams need to be replaced.  This will add $10,000 to the project cost.  It will also take an additional 4 days of labor to replace the existing beams with the new ones.