Remodeling an old house + addition

[Mastermind]

Thanks, Randy.

It was a long damn day, but I think we eliminated 99% of the rotten crap. I’m gonna have to do something about the grading around the house, and install some sort of French drain at some point, otherwise it will just happen again.

Water seems to stand there pretty bad. Here it soaks in real fast.....lots of sand in the soil.

 

[cgraham1]

Water seems to stand there pretty bad. Here it soaks in real fast.....lots of sand in the soil.

Mostly clay here. I wish we had better soil.

 

[cgraham1]

Good to see the repair. A definite will be doing something about the water problem. Will you be pumping the water out from the addition foundation?

Not sure what to do yet. Hopefully fixing the drainage will cure the water in the crawl space problem... but I’m not opposed to putting in a sump pump if necessary.

 

[cgraham1]

This house is a *f-wording mess.

 

[Mastermind]

My remodeling project is coming along......


This room was pretty heavily damaged by a water leak.....you can see where it poured thru here.

 

[cgraham1]

My remodeling project is coming along......

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This room was pretty heavily damaged by a water leak.....you can see where it poured thru here.

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Nice house. You have thick walls.

Water really wreaks havoc on stuff. That’s the main problem I’m having here... and it was not addressed at all in the last forty (or so) years. A few strategically placed pieces of flashing, and proper grading would have eliminated 99% of the issues in this house.

 

[Mastermind]

Nice house. You have thick walls.

Water really wreaks havoc on stuff. That’s the main problem I’m having here... and it was not addressed at all in the last forty (or so) years. A few strategically placed pieces of flashing, and proper grading would have eliminated 99% of the issues in this house.

Sadness.

 

[MontanaTed]

Mostly clay here. I wish we had better soil.

Typically what’s around here except it’s expansive clay so swells then shrinks when it drys creating terrible movement in buildings. Wasn’t until about 8 years ago or so the city finally got smart and required an engineered foundation.

I worked in a home that got caught up in a law suit. They said my radon system dried out the soil under the slab causing it to sink....6”+ in a n area more than 20 feet from the suction point. Yeah how about not. Couldn’t have been the extreme wet spring we had causing ground water to rise and then take soil with when it receded. But shoot I’m not an engineer....

 

[cgraham1]

Started cleaning up under the house, and decided I didn’t like crawling around in the mud... I’m going to have to add a bunch of piers since they spaced them too far apart. The plastic makes it pretty nice.

 

[Mastermind]

Never seen piers made of wood before.

 

[cgraham1]

Never seen piers made of wood before.

There’s concrete under them. The concrete is only sticking up about an inch above the dirt, which isn’t really a good idea either.

 

[Dub11]

Started cleaning up under the house, and decided I didn’t like crawling around in the mud... I’m going to have to add a bunch of piers since they spaced them too far apart. The plastic makes it pretty nice.

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Sweet slip and slide

 

[Drptrch]

Sweet slip and slide

Under house mud wrestling pit : P


Erik

 

[stihl_head1982]

There’s concrete under them. The concrete is only sticking up about an inch above the dirt, which isn’t really a good idea either.

Wooden piers, isn't this every termite's dream

This house is certainly a window into how things were done in a different day or in a different way.

 

[Johnmn]

Sweet slip and slide

Wayne I was at a music festival many moons ago. They had a 100' slip and slide set up, it was pretty cool. But the best part was the steady flow of naked women heading down the slide!

 

[cgraham1]

Tore the old roofing off... what a miserable job

 

[redline4]

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Hey, at least your not slopping around in ankle deep mud.

 

[cgraham1]

Hey, at least your not slopping around in ankle deep mud.

Thats true. Now it’s 80 degrees.

 

[cgraham1]

I also spent three days under the house jacking and leveling, and adding more posts and piers... had to replace the sills and bottom plates, but luckily the rot doesn’t extend underneath the house.

I also reframed the front window opening, because it was a mess.

 

[Steve]

Nice! Lots of great progress!