Tom Silva builds a new structural wall to solve the problem of the exterior walls bowing out at the Charlestown 2014 house. Norm Abram, Kevin O’Connor and Tom add structure to the roof.

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Tom Silva shows Kevin O’Connor a major problem with the Charlestown 2014 house—the exterior walls are bowing out from the weight of the roof over 160 years. His solution: build a structural wall inbound of the brick, lash the brick to the structure with threaded rods and epoxy, and then parge the whole thing. On the third floor, Norm Abram shows Kevin O’Connor how the roof has been under-structured since it was originally built. The structure they added in the 1980s helped, but it still needs more. Tom joins to get the first of two massive LVLs tucked into the pockets in the brick sidewalls, and fastened in place.

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