Whilst redecorating the exterior, the owners noticed that their porch appeared to be falling away from the wall. We were asked to investigate and see what we could do.
Also clearing away some of the render, it became clear that the original porch had been replaced at some point with one of a shallower pitch. As a result, the rafters met the wall below the timber ground which had provided a good fixing point for the top of the original rafters. The timber ground itself had rotten fairly badly so there was very little holding the porch back against the wall.
Rather than replace all of the rafters or move the timber ground down a course and risk disturbing the gallows brackets and soft red rubber bricks, we chose to fix sprockets to the top of the rafters and then fix those to a replacement timber ground. The ground was dovetailed and chemically anchored into the wall.
As the sprockets were fixed back to the ground, the whole porch started to pull back against the wall into position.
After replacing a few broken tiles with reclaimed ones, we re-rendered and pebble dashed the wall, ready for the decorators to finish their work.
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