In 90 degree weather (and I don't even want to think about the humidity) Martin built the new (temporary barn wall) and tore down the rotten exterior wall on the east side of the barn. Step one in separating the house from the barn in order to be able to raise the house (or tear it completely down), get a basement dug, a slab poured, and the foundation in.
It sounds like you might just tear the house down completely now? It was starting to seem like that could be the easiest route. Any progress on floor plans?
ReplyDeleteWe have begun to think about tearing the house down. Once we thought about what we actually are going to salvage from the original structure, we realized it may be the wisest choice. If we keep as much as possible, we will be saving the sills (which are only 10 feet long and have a joint in the middle), the walls down to the bare studs, and possibly the boards on the outside of the walls. Foor, flooring, shingles, doors, rafters, and windows will all be replace. Since we need to dig the basement, it might be easier to do that tearing down rather than jacking the house up. Also, we have more flexibility with changing the size of the house if we start new. Since we haven't decided exactly what we are going to do, we haven't seriously started on floor plans.
DeleteWe have begun to think about tearing down the house. We realized that we would only be able to salvage the sills (which are only 10 feet long and jointed), the walls down to bare studs, and possible the boards on the outside of the walls. We are replacing the joists, roof, rafters, flooring, shingles, windows, and doors. Since we have to dig the basement, it would be easier to not have a jacked up house over us. Also, if we start new, we have more flexibility with the size of the footprint. We haven't seriously started working on floor plans yet because we need to decide exactly what we are going to do. We have looked at lots of floor plan ideas and have talked about the general layout.
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