08/11/2018
Here is a house that I helped perform a total remodel on. All but 700 square feet of the original 1900 sqft home was demolished by others. I shored up the remaining floor with a 54 foot long tripple 2x6 and 8 jack posts in the crawl space below it. I will see if I can get some photos from the owner/contractor/architect, Kirk Watson. I also built a shoring wall to support the roof. Then excavation for the 4200 sqft addition was roughly 80% completed when the 1000 year flood of 2013 came. No damage occurred to the existing structure (thank God!). The crawl space was six feet higher than the excavated space and it stayed dry. Once all the water was pumped out and the ground became sufficiently dry, the project proceeded forward. I went to a different job for several months, came back and framed the house when the new foundation was ready in 2014. I had help with first floor new walls, second floor joists, and later with rolling trusses and sheeting the roof. Everthing else in the framing I did alone. I got help with high soffits and fascia, and setting the porch beams and all columns. There's a lot more to be said in a couple more posts about this work.
