This was my home when I first bought it.- It was originally built in the 20's (1922 is the best guess I have). The house is one of the older homes on the block.
- The house was originally built as a simple 20' x 40' structure with a front porch.
- Later a 6' deep back porch was added.
- Eventually both porches were closed in (poorly).
- Several interior (non-load bearing) walls were added (again, poorly).
- Finally, the house was built as post and pier construction, meaning the entire house was built using 36 1' x 1' concrete pier blocks, with wooden beams on top of wooden posts. This doesn't provide much bearing for the house, and as a result, the house had settled roughly 8" from the front left corner to the back right corner.
- All of these issues and more would need to be addressed. I knew this going in, and figured that it would be easier to remodel this home than build one from scratch. And seeing that I couldn't afford a new home, this would have to do.
- I started this blog in the Fall of 2011, but I backdating the posts to the appropriate times, so the chronological continuity is coherent. (Does that count as alliteration?)
2 comments:
Love, love, love it all!! Now I want you to hurry and finish so I can come visit "_"
We'll have a guest room!
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