THE KLIER ARCHIVE · 1962 → TODAY

Sixty-three yearsof Ohio history,moved by hand.

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Years In Business

54+

Projects Documented

Generations Deep

100%

Family-Owned

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DEEP-DIVE PROJECTS

A few jobs we wrote up in full.

The hardest, weirdest, or most photographed projects in the Klier archive — with the actual story.

PROJECT 014 · 2019

The Big Red Barn

When the owners called us out, the south corner of the barn had dropped almost four inches. The sill was rotted through and the stone foundation was crumbling onto itself. Most contractors said the building was past saving. We disagreed. Over six weeks we cribbed the entire south wall, cut out the rotten sill, sistered new oak in beside the original timbers, and rebuilt the corner pier from the footing up. The barn is back — straight, square, and good for another hundred years.

PROJECT 011 · 2018

The Cribbed Cottage at 127

127 had been sitting on a stacked-stone perimeter for seventy years. The owners wanted a real basement — finished living space, mechanicals out of the crawl, the works. We slid steel I-beams under the floor system, pinned the structure, and lifted the entire cottage onto pallet cribs. While she sat in the air, our excavator dug the new basement and we poured a fresh block foundation. Three weeks later the cottage was back down — exactly level, with a new full-height basement under it.

PROJECT 009 · 2017

The Yellow Ranch

From the street the yellow ranch on the corner looked fine. Inside, the basement walls were bowing in three inches and the dining-room floor was starting to follow them. We installed steel I-beam wall braces floor-to-ceiling around the entire perimeter, sistered the failing floor joists, and tied the system back into a new center beam. The owners moved their kids' bedrooms back downstairs the next month.

PROJECT 017 · 2018

The Lakefront Saltbox

The owners of this lake-country saltbox had a problem and a deadline — closing on a refinance in six weeks, and an inspector who wouldn't sign off on the failing stone-pier foundation. Jim drove out on a Tuesday, gave a number Wednesday, and we had steel under the sill by the following Monday. We dug out the old field-stone piers one by one, set a new poured footing under each, and rebuilt with engineered block. Inspector signed off the same day we backfilled. The shutters never even came off.

PROJECT 022 · JANUARY 2019

The Move Through the Snow

Most movers shut down December through March. We don't, when the job calls for it. This little outbuilding had to come off a property being sold, and the museum receiving it had a grant deadline that didn't care about the weather. We pulled the move at 6 AM on a Saturday — pilot car ahead, flagger behind, salt trucks notified, roof boarded against the wind. By noon she was sitting on cribs at her new home twelve miles away. Cold work. Clean work.

PROJECT 019 · 2018

The Italianate on Main

This little Italianate had been a 19th-century shop, a private residence, and now an antique gallery. The owner loved it. The foundation didn't love her back. The whole east side was settling and the cornice brackets were starting to pull away from the wall. We shored the structure in place, replaced the failing sill plate end-to-end, and underpinned the perimeter with new footings — all without disturbing the porch furniture or the 'spitting on sidewalks prohibited' sign she keeps by the door. Restoration finished in a season. She added the wicker chairs back the day we left.

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