You see how all the wood on the left sides of these posts is rotten and crumbling?
That's what was *holding up my house.*
Not anymore! We have new, not crumbly wood!
And concrete to support the posts! It's much better.
Discussion
Loading...
@ajroach42 I don't think that's a golf ball, but what is it (for scale)?
(There were ... 8, I think? of these posts in total. They were all sitting on dirt. The dirt is at the bottom of a hill and water pools there. They were all sitting in mud. They were all rotting.
I only got pictures of the last two, they weren't even the *worst two* just the last two.
All the new posts are sitting on concrete that will keep them from sitting in pools of water and rotting.
Now I get to use my living room and porch without fearing that they'll fall off the clifside.)
@ajroach42 Living in a country where we basically don't make houses out of wood, this is terrifying.
I can see a big bad wolf blowing hard and bringing it down. xD
@ajroach42 🥺 here in the UK we only usually see houses without foundations when they are at least three hundred years old…
@fishidwardrobe The house is built into the side of a cliff face. The back half has a foundation, but the front half is supported on those beams.
Those beams should have been anchored onto a foundation as well, when the house was constructed, but they weren't.
We knew this when we moved in, but it got worse faster than we expected.