We just spent a lot of money on our house. A lot of money for a really boring and never going to be seen project.
We had our house piered.
We had some pretty major cracks in our basement wall.
We had main house support beams that were not bearing on the wall anymore.
Our house had settled a few inches, which was causing the cracks in the basement wall, cracks upstairs in our drywall, cracks in our exterior brick…etc. We had this problem a few years ago. We tried some other solutions to see if we could get the house to come back up on it’s own without having to spend the money to pier it. The house did come back up, but then it went back down again. So we took the plunge and hired out a company to come and fix our problems.
They are not exciting pictures, it was not an exciting job. But it’s all done now and we are hopeful that it fixes our problems.
In case you are curious, we had 9 piers added to our house along two different walls. Our Southeast corner was the worst, had dropped the most, and it got jacked up 1 1/4”. We also had granular fill added on the outside of the full basement wall and a sump pump installed so that the wall will not continue to move inward and should hopefully never have any leaking problems. And now buried under the house are all my dreams of getting a kitchen remodel in the next 5 years.
As for what we have been doing around the house lately. We are still working on the basement, trying to get the mudroom and stairs finished up.
Then we move on to work on Bella’s room, which was the reason we bought the house in the first place.
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