Update and Thanks

To all of you following the blog, sorry that I haven't posted recently. We were very busy last weekend, and this week has proven to be busy as well which I am very thankful for, we needed the work. We worked on adding in the structural support that the house needs this past weekend. We were blessed with help from friends and family that made the work a lot easier, and fun! 






As you may recall, there was a foundation issue that I took a picture of, you can see it again here to the right. This was caused by the removal of a wall on the main level of the home at the stairwell. This is pictured to the left. All that extra weight forced the floors down in the center of the home with no foundation to support it.




SO.... We jacked and jacked and jacked the house until we were able to get three 2 by 8s placed between two foundation walls in the basement. We still have another 3/4 of an inch or so before we are level, but we hope to work towards that this weekend. I'm going to need to dig three holes in the concrete/dirt floor and set three small footers for support posts for these columns. Hoping to get that done this weekend with some help.




We were also able to remove the remaining plaster from upstairs that needed to come out, remove the remainder of the mouse-urine-soaked baseboards and get some clean-up done. Thanks to everyone who came out to help! It was so appreciated.

We are starting to work out the wiring in the house and move some boxes around and correct small problems. Fortunately, most of the wiring seems sound, and it is at least updated and modern.  We might have found a good source of stone for the fireplace repair, will know more on that on Friday.

If you'd like to come out this weekend and help, please let us know. We will be out on Friday, Saturday and possibly Sunday. We will try to leave a key for anyone that would like to do something when we are not there.

Brian