ARDEN RESTORATION IN BEVERLY HILLS

Boston Brick & Stone bid this project but lost the bid to a cheaper price from one of our competitors. After almost a year had elapsed the property owner contacted us to persuade us into taking the project over. The competing company had demolished the two chimneys but had not been able to proceed with the next step. This is the reason we do not have proper before photos of the project. Had we been awarded the contract the two chimneys would have been meticulously diagramed and photographed. Below are the only photos we have of the original chimneys.

Project Arden

What the project looked like when we took it over.

The above photo is what the project looked like when we took it over. We took the competitor’s scaffold down and erected our own.

We had to engineer a transition from the lower frame work to the upper steel frame spires.

To ensure the restoration was historically accurate we had to engineer a transition from the lower frame work to the upper steel frame spires. Boston Brick & Stone came up with this design.

We had to be sure that future seismic forces would not topple the top half of the chimney.

This plate allowed the chimney to meet the required calculations. We had to be sure that future seismic forces would not topple the top half of the chimney.

The steel transition weighed over 200 pounds.

The steel transition weighed over 200 pounds. This was the rig we used to set it in place on top of the lower frame work.

ARDEN RESTORATION IN BEVERLY HILLS

Project Arden

What the project looked like when we took it over.

We had to engineer a transition from the lower frame work to the upper steel frame spires.

We had to be sure that future seismic forces would not topple the top half of the chimney.

The steel transition weighed over 200 pounds.

Almost in place.

Steel stud framework under way.

Note the steel transition supporting the steel stud spires above.

Ready for thin brick.

Faux concrete decorative features being installed.

Both Chimneys completed with Copper Pots.