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Except that I don't see anything holding up that small addittion off the rear.
Never saw one go that high!
Eric
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They spiked it to the tree.
They have I-beams going across.
Joe Carola
Right. There are those twin bigger beams running uot under the rear wing and hoisting the load bearing walls - then the under slung little beam is clamped to the bottom of them with a couple chunks of cribing holding the chimney as well as stressing that side wall enough to spring some vinyl siding loose.
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We have one in my neighborhood that is jacked up at the moment. They have the footings done and are now putting up the forms for the walls. When they lifted the house, it took the furnace along for the ride. I believe the people are still living in it as they took steps to reconnect the water and sewer service. There was even a coffee cup on the bottom basement step.
My old neighbor ended up doing his piecemeal, about one eight ft section at a time. He had a couple of mobilejack walls built and would be ripping out one section on one side while the concrete set on the other side. As he could only do it on weekends, that seemed to work out much better than jacking the whole place up at once.
If I remember my camera on next Sunday's AM coffee walk, I'll get some pics.
Looks like someone's building a first-story addition. The existing rear addition is supported by the cantilever of the beams. The house jacker who lifted our house went about 75" so I could walk under it, and drive a small tractor under. Kinda scary inside the house... it swayed a bit, especially on windy days.
About 2 days of exterior wall framing and that house can get lowered.
Yeah, that cribbing looks pretty good from what I can see of it - pretty standard method we see here in the Pacific Northwet.
Might be a house someone had moved. We had a house given to us about ten years ago on the condition we moved it. Had to crib it up like that and pour a foundation wall under it - only about 36" in the air, but looked just about like that...might even have a photo...
Got an "after" pic? Matt
"Got an "after" pic?"
Well, it's still "in progress", Matt, but here's a shot from about the same angle a couple summers ago when we resided it. You can see the second story addition and exterior lines pretty well. Just now taping drywall when I get the time.
By the way, that's Hardi siding, lap and shingle, stained with "Mason's Select" - a mixture of two different colors.
Looks like your standard Deluxe Edition deer stand to me.
Joe H
Looks an instruction manual for DJ....
other than that .. what did I miss...
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It's interesting that they took the masonry chimney along for the ride.
Yeah, it does look like a brick chimney, and they stuck the end of a beam under it to get it supported. They'll have to get some more mud under it once the beam is removed.
So THAT's where my Lincoln Logs went!
Looks like concrete block foundation going in too.
Edited 10/17/2004 1:48 am ET by JohnT8
we had that mill up on nearly 20' of cribbing during repair - we didn't lift it that far, but to get from the turbine floor up two stories to get to solid framing - was sitting on those stacks when the wind blew the roof off -
I'm going to bet that house was moved there. At the very leaast, it is a brand new foundation because it is larger than the house, so the new first floor will be larger than this top of thd stack. Also - see there is no base built for the chimney yet. They plan to lay up under it.
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