It seems like every day I come home to a little less house. It's getting to be unnerving. Hope there's no rain in the forecast!A couple of neighbors have commented the house is looking good. I think what they really mean is that they can now see we actually have a plan and they aren't going to live next to an eyesore for the rest of their lives.
Most of the siding has been taken off the house. You can see where the plaster seeped through the lathe 100 years ago when the house was built.Sadly, we are discovering that some of our plaster and lathe walls have been replaced with drywall. The framer suspects the previous owner did it when he replaced the old windows -- that he replaced the old windows because of leaks.
These are the brackets holding the ceiling beams to the new main posts. They had to be custom ordered and delayed construction a week because they took forever to get here.
This is one of the two posts that now have to hold up the whole house once all the "pier and post" structures are gone. It seems like a lot, to ask one piece to do the work that so many were doing before. Again, I hope the engineer knew what he was doing...
Our foundation is now completely poured -- has been for a couple of weeks, but I've been too busy to post. The following posts will walk you through most of the process...
These crazy beams are called spider legs. We had a couple of these in place when the project first started. After the cave-in, they multiplied like bunnies to keep the house standing.
It seems like every day I come home to a little less house. It's getting to be unnerving. Hope there's no rain in the forecast!
Most of the siding has been taken off the house. You can see where the plaster seeped through the lathe 100 years ago when the house was built.
These are the brackets holding the ceiling beams to the new main posts. They had to be custom ordered and delayed construction a week because they took forever to get here.
This is one of the two posts that now have to hold up the whole house once all the "pier and post" structures are gone. It seems like a lot, to ask one piece to do the work that so many were doing before. Again, I hope the engineer knew what he was doing...
Our foundation is now completely poured -- has been for a couple of weeks, but I've been too busy to post. The following posts will walk you through most of the process...
