The basement jacking, quite possibly the most tedious and trying project to date, is D-O-N-E. I flew in from Florida late last night (greeted by snowflakes; how quaint) to find that Teague had worked his butt off all week to get the basement finished in time for my birthday. Not only that, but the house […]

We’ve been making great headway on the jacking progress. And by we, I mean Teague. I love to get my hands dirty and be involved in our house projects, but I’ll be the first to admit – this one is way out of my league. We’re probably 3/4 of the way there. It’s a slow […]

I know, you’re just dying to hear about our adventures this past weekend. Unfortunately, it’s pretty boring stuff. More parging of basement walls, and more floor jacking. We wrangled Teague’s father into helping us again, and between the 3 of us we made good progress. Teague and Don continued work on the back end of […]

I know, you’re just dying to hear about our adventures this past weekend. Unfortunately, it’s pretty boring stuff. More parging of basement walls, and more floor jacking. We wrangled Teague’s father into helping us again, and between the 3 of us we made good progress. Teague and Don continued work on the back end of […]

We’ve grown so used to our house’s slopes and valleys that we hardly notice them. But when they go away, it’s hard to miss! Teague and his father, Don, spent last Saturday crawling around in the basement jacking the back side of the house. This is the hardest part to reach because it’s partially blocked […]

Teague has been hard at work on the drainage for the new foundation wall. He was happy to find that our ’93 minivan had enough power to haul 1600 pounds of concrete home from the local hardware store! Now that the concrete has been poured, we’ve got to sit tight and wait for it to […]

The house had some serious drainage issues when we bought it. All of the upper flat roofs of the house drained to the back annex that we are currently deconstructing. The roof of the annex had no rain gutter, allowing all of the run-off from ALL the roofs to drench the foundation and subsequently flood […]

It’s 8:00am Saturday morning, I’ve just finished carrying a couple hundred pound I-beam into the basement, with much needed help from my father, to use as a linear support for jacking joists back up flush with the girders and sublfooring and replacing sagging ledgers. We began at what so far seems to be the more […]

This Saturday marked our second full week in the house, and once again we managed to make a dent in our project list. Hurray for being young, able-bodied, and energetic. On Thursday, I made a stop at Sherwin Williams on my way home from work. I am extremely picky about paint colors. I used to […]

Plans are in the works to start repairing our foundation problems. We’re doing it ourselves because we can’t afford to do it any other way, and because Teague’s father has a good understanding of the process and some hands-on experience as well. If you’ve got the cash, I imagine it’s probably better to hire a […]