Complete ProjectEastern North Carolina

    Church Steeple Restoration

    A brick church in Eastern North Carolina with a tall white steeple, where dark water staining had run down the brick tower below the belfry. Access was by ladder off the sanctuary roof and later by a towable boom lift; inside the louvered belfry the crew marked corroded areas of the structural frame with orange spray paint, and the flat deck at the steeple base showed heavy rust along its steel curb and perimeter seams. That deck was sealed at the joints and recoated to a clean, uniform surface, and the job closed out with the exterior of the steeple pressure-washed from a lift basket, all the way up to the finial at the tip of the spire.

    10 photographsIn the order the work happened

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    1. 01 / 10

      White multi-stage steeple with a tall spire rising above the brick tower of a church, seen from below against a deep blue sky.
      The steeple as we found it, with dark staining already visible running down the brick tower below the belfry, a common sign that water is getting past the structure above.

    2. 02 / 10

      A step ladder set on a shingle roof beside the brick base of a church steeple, with hoses and cords running up to the belfry above.
      Getting to a steeple is half the job; here the crew works off the sanctuary roof to reach the belfry, and the water staining on the brick shows plainly at this range.

    3. 03 / 10

      Interior view of a steeple belfry showing a lattice of aluminum structural bracing and cross-members behind the louvers.
      Inside the belfry, the aluminum frame that carries the steeple is fully exposed, which is the only way to judge how sound the structure actually is.

    4. 04 / 10

      Pale green metal panels inside a steeple with bright orange spray paint marking corroded seams and a rusted joint where framing members meet.
      Every corroded seam and joint gets marked in orange during the inspection so nothing is missed once the repair work begins.

    5. 05 / 10

      Close view of a heavily rusted steel curb running along the edge of a flat deck at the base of a steeple, with debris on the deck surface.
      The steel curb around the deck at the base of the steeple had rusted through its coating, which is exactly where water gets in and starts staining the brick below.

    6. 06 / 10

      A fresh bead of white sealant applied along the joint where the rusted perimeter steel meets the deck at the base of a steeple.
      A new bead of sealant closes the joint between the perimeter steel and the deck, sealing the path water had been taking into the structure.

    7. 07 / 10

      The flat deck at the base of a steeple after recoating, showing a clean, uniform light grey surface around a centre drain and the aluminum frame above.
      The same deck after it was recoated, now a single continuous surface draining to the centre drain instead of a patchwork of rust and old repairs.

    8. 08 / 10

      A towable boom lift parked beside a brick church with its boom raised toward the steeple, and a large water tote staged nearby.
      For the exterior cleaning the crew brought in a boom lift and a water tote, since a steeple this tall cannot be reached safely from ladders or the roof.

    9. 09 / 10

      A worker standing in a raised boom lift basket beside the dark upper spire of a steeple, directing a pressure washer wand at the finial at its very tip.
      Cleaning runs right to the top of the spire and the finial above it, the part of a steeple that almost never gets touched because so few roofers will go up there.

    10. 10 / 10

      A worker in a boom lift basket pressure-washing the white louvered cupola of a church steeple, water spraying against the cornice under a blue sky.
      The white cupola coming clean under the pressure washer, restoring the steeple's appearance now that the structure and deck beneath it have been repaired.

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