No Blue X...this is promising!
A floor! We have a floor!
And they've started putting in the insulation!
Going outside, it's clear that Bunkport & Company have made more progress out there:
They removed an overhang that came down about 6 inches for no particular reason. I drew in the red line to show where it used to come down to, & put in a star to show where friends over 5'6" used to hit their heads coming down the stairs.
Insulation being put into the floor. Three cheers for warm toes!
The wall on the outside of the weird little storage room is almost finished being rebuilt, with the posts now inside. See below for what it looked like the other day.
Recall that the posts holding up The Treehouse were originally on the outside of this wall. Resting on those bricks.
Electrical, the new window, & the rest of the insulation are all slated to happen tomorrow, with sheetrock being slated to go in the following day. We're about to start a week's worth of rainstorms, however, so I guess we'll see what happens.
A couple people have expressed surprise to me that so much needs to be done on these back sections of the house. I think the thing that makes it make sense to me is just knowing that they were built before 1938 (click for a photo), & that very little maintenance has been done on them since then: a new set of stairs was put in at some point in the last 20-25 years (that's why the doors to the rooms underneath seem placed weirdly & why there was the previously mentioned danger of banging foreheads on the overhang -- the original stairs were shorter & steeper than what code allows now), vinyl siding was slapped on the entire house in 1991, new wiring in 2007, & that seems to be about it. Nothing structural, as far as we can tell (unless you consider shoving those landscaping bricks under The Treehouse posts "structural"). So, that's 70 or 80 years of old wood sitting on dirt, slowly settling in funny ways. No wonder they're in bad shape!
Before anyone starts to worry about the rest of the house, let me reassure you: every contractor, inspector, and engineer that has been through here agrees that the main part of the house is solid & will stand for another 100 years. The foundation under the house is sound. It's just these screwy extensions that need to be brought up to snuff.
And lastly, in Pea News, a day's worth of growing makes a difference. Finally the sprouts are (sort of) big enough for the camera to (almost) focus on:
Yay floor! Yay insulation! I'm very excited for y'all. I must say, it all looks like it is coming together nicely. Additionally, the illustration where a person over 5'6" would hit his/her head receives an A+ in my book.
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