Step 7 Repairs (Approximately April 2006)

We are currently rejoicing because God had the Mechanical and Plumbing inspector give his final approvals on Tuesday (3/28). He was not the same inspector as the pre-purchase inspector, but was also very nice to work with.

The engineer gave me all of the needed information on the LVL beams and the posts and I have now completed the structural reinforcement/replacement in the basement (actually a friend/licensed builder did all of the hard work). This entailed putting a lot of steel bracing, creating concrete pads and replacing the main support posts, and replacing the main beams.

We had to dig up the electrical line to the garage and kept being postponed due to frost in the ground. However, we successfully replaced the wire and added insulation and heat tape to the water pipe in case it ever freezes again.

I plumbed a tube from the boiler to allow overexpansion to flow to the floor, and not onto the boiler itself! This was one of the inspector's required corrections.

Some of this may be out of order due to the time between then (April) and now (almost September, tomorrow!).

My next update should add the new pictures to this page. I need to go take them in a few minutes after dinner.

	<== The house's electricity was coming from this temporary post before, < Now it is underground skipping this box. ==>
	<== The house's electricity was coming above in the trees before, as you see in these pictures... ==>
	<== The house's electricity was manually stuck in this box, Now it is hooked underground straight to the house's box. ==>

	<== The garage's electricity was exposed from this junction box to where it went into the wall, Now it is solid straight to this new junction box. ==>
	<== The garage's electrical panel was in bad shape, Now it is replaced with the house's old box. ==>

	<== The left are images of the old main beam in the basement, the right are images (approx. the same as the left) of the new main beam. ==>

Now here are some steps in the replacement process...

These are pictures of the progress on the new footers

	<== This is the underside of the overhang that was an open box, only supported by the purlins, this is the new boxed overhang containing the 2x6 steel reinforced box and 1 foot shorter. ==>
	<== This is the underside of the overhang being worked on
	<== This is detail of the steel supports and 2x6 bracing

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