Big Projects 2010: House
The foundation repair on my 330 year old house is finally coming together! The final plans were submitted to the city a few weeks ago, and I’m waiting for approval. I’m in very active discussions with a contractor, who I expect will do the work. If nothing serious goes wrong, work should start in about a month.
What an incredible project this has turned into! Contaminated ground, some of the most poorly behaved neighbors I have ever seen, cheated by architects, bad contractors, just everything that could go wrong has, and it has all dragged out for years now. As things start to come together, and the work starts getting done, I plan some posts both explaining what’s happening as well as what’s happened.
What you see in the pictures above are the main larger drawing of my new foundation at the top, including 16 piles 21.5 meters deep. In the blue folders are about 50 pages of mathmatical calculations that describe in detail all of the functioning of the new foundation and all the support the various parts will give. Also on the right is a new steel stability structure that will be installed in my wall to keep my house stable for the future. On the lower left are the plans for a support structure that will be used during the construction that will keep my house from collapsing when the weight is transferred from the old foundation to the new one, which will be particularly important because we’ll be living upstairs at the time.
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Good luck with this project!
Gosh, Patrick! I knew there were problems but I thought it would all be finished by now! What a saga. Good luck from here on.