Frornt porch improvements

This is the side porch. Most of the brick work of the whole house is in very good shape. The worst is this low retaining wall around the porch. Also the porch deck is sinking. Rain runoff floods underneath the concrete and in between the wall the the slab. The concrete caps of this wall are also crumbling and morbid. I dream of pulling down the retaining wall in the area from the column in the foreground, around the corner and to the column at the other end of the porch. Then excavating all the concrete and bad fill underneath and re-constructing a new concrete porch deck with drains. Then re-build the wall, installing a new concrete cap. In addition, the whole house needs to be gone over and pointed up by a qualified mason, especially the chimney. Maybe we could make sufficient repairs to the chimney to enable us to burn wood in it again. So all the fireplace, brick and concrete porch work would be grouped under this portion. I track the grounds keeping improvements in my Argenta Gardener blog. That is: http://bnbsgarden.blogspot.com/