My Country Quest

Follow along our journey back to the land. This is where we will record our thoughts, musings and dealings with terrible dragons right here for your viewing pleasure.

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Wednesday, June 28, 2006

October 2, 2005

So much was accomplished yesterday but I am a bit disappointed in our work on the foundation. It wasn't our work exactly that has caused the trouble, but hindsight being what it is, I do wish we had used a larger post because of the settling factor. Since putting on the gables ends yesterday, the whouse has settled some - maybe an inch? Which isn't a big deal really considering we are ameterus, but still it would be better if it had not settled at all. So now we have to buy some porch support blocks and level the hosue with them. The other option that would have made a difference was putting a concrete pad at the bottom of the holes before putting and tamping in the posts.

NOw for some updates that I didn't get to before now: on the roofing tin, the company we bought it from is willing to take the short tin as trade in against the rpice of the longer tin (which they cut too short). That amounts to about $200 instead of $600. That's a blessing.

ON the steel beams under the house, those never arrived (thank goodness we hadn't paid for them yet) so we had to use pressure treated 2x10x8's for the beams. That has contributed to the unleveling of the house too because if we had used steel beams the individual posts would have been negated by the weight of the house resting evening on the beams rather than on the beams themselves. (Does that make sense?)

So again, hindsight is a wonderful thing for future decisions, but doesn't change the here and now much at all. There is a bit of a bounce to the house when all the guys were on the 2nd floor owkring. Not a bounce in the floorm but a resonating feeling when someone runs along the top floor. To take that away, someone suggested a 2x4 boards nailed crossways between the piers, like X fashion. That will take the bit of shake factor out of the house.

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