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Restoration and Renovation
Abbot Completes Haverhill Church Project
Haverhill, MA – Abbot Building Restoration recently completed a masonry repair and restoration project at the historic Sacred Hearts Parish church and school buildings in Haverhill. The church is located at the corner of South Main Street and Charleton Street while the school is located across the street on Chestnut Street.
Abbot secured the project based on a competitive bidding process among qualified masonry firms in the Greater Boston area. The overall scope of the project encompassed power washing and waterproofing both buildings, cutting and pointing various deteriorated areas, and repairing cracks and sills.
Specifically, the initial phase involved setting up a series of lifts to allow worker access for spot cutting and pointing various areas of both buildings to match the existing appearance of the buildings. Following this process, all of the brick surfaces on both buildings were power washed to remove atmospheric dirt in preparation for application of a clear waterproofing sealer (Protectosil Chemtrete BSM Sealer, Evonik Industries, Essen, Germany).
Sacred Hearts Parish
The next phase was to erect pipe staging to allow access to the church’s chimney at the Charleton Street elevation, so that Abbot could cut and point the entire chimney facade. On the school building, Abbot saw cut multiple cracks in the foundation and recaulked these areas with a high performance polyurethane sealant (Tremco, Beachwood, Ohio). In addition, Abbot removed and replaced two windowsills with new precast concrete to match the existing appearance.
Sacred Hearts Parish was founded in 1908 to serve the spiritual needs of the Bradford-Ward Hill neighborhood residents in Haverhill.
Isaac Blair Shores Oceanfront Property
Cotuit, MA – The Marr Companies announced that one of its four businesses, Isaac Blair, recently installed shoring at a private, waterfront residence undergoing a major renovation in Cotuit. The shoring will support the residence during the replacement of the existing foundation and the installation of a new foundation for a large addition at the rear of the house. Installed for General Contractor Site Management, the shoring will remain in place for approximately two months.
Set on a hill overlooking the ocean, the house was temporarily suspended in the air to enable workers and construction equipment to remove the existing foundation and begin building a new, deeper foundation that would provide more headroom. To accommodate this work, Isaac Blair crew members installed four, 40-foot steel beams through the first floor of the house. These beams, weighing 2,000 pounds each, were used to suspend the first floor and carry the load from above. The crew also installed Shore-X shoring frames to secure the beams and tilt-up bracing to provide lateral support for the house. Installed over two weeks in October, the shoring will provide
Isaac Blair installed steel beams through the first floor of a private residence in Cotuit, Mass. to support the removal of the existing foundation. complete support of the house’s first floor and all load bearing walls during construction.
Additionally, Isaac Blair installed shoring to support the installation of a new concrete slab foundation under a previously built, 2-story addition to the house. Isaac Blair installed two needle beams, supported by a temporary wall built by Site Management and shoring towers on the first floor, to carry the load of the second floor during construction.
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