Below you'll see what has been the worst snag we've run into since we began. Originally, the dirt was pushed against the house, above the original wood siding, therefore it had to be moved to install the new siding and to correct the problem. Upon doing so, we uncovered this mess. The wall along the entire back of the house and the wall down about a third of the side of the house were sitting on cracked cinder blocks and stacks of 2x4's. The remedy for this situation would require the house to be jacked up by the downstairs ceiling to allow for a new footer to be poured. We would also have to replace the entire back wall and part of the side wall due to rot. We would also discover that the walls on this area weren't even tied to the floor. When we jacked up the house the walls came up to and were flapping in the breeze.
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| Here we have the house jacked up and are removing the old walls. |
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| The new footer has been formed up. |
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| New footer. |
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| We also added double LVL beams to be able to open the downstairs up. We also had to replace all the original 2x4 ceiling joists with new 2x8's. |
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| The entire house wrapped in OSB sheeting and ready for windows and siding. |
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| The mudroom ceiling and walls are rotted and built poorly so they are being replaced as well. |
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| There was a flat area on the roof that was covered in rubber sheeting but we didn't want to have to worry about it leaking so this cap was built to cover flat spot. It actually came out really nice as I was expecting a church steeple-esque structure. |
This snag has cost us precious time and money as Christmas is fast approaching however, all is seemingly well now as a few windows have been installed this past week and the metal for our roof is on site. The siding should be here this coming week as well. Just in time for the bad weather...
