Gorgeous Above. Ravaged Below.
I don't know what the title of this post means exactly, but it makes me think of the bodice-ripper Harlequin romance novels that my mom used to beg me to bring her from the library when I was in junior high.
Anyway.
We were conducting a search for someone to help us with The Sunroom Problem. Someone who could assess structural issues and load problems and footings and piers and things like that. Someone who would cause minimum disturbance to the new plaster coating on the walls above The Problem. And someone built like a hobbit or a largish Keebler-type elf because the space under the sunroom is very, very limited.
Luckily, we were able to call Martin, Michael and crew from Great Lakes Builders. They were not built like hobbits (which was slightly disappointing because, cool! Hobbits under the house!) but they were very bend-y.
Here is Martin giving a pep talk to one of the crew, "Just ignore the crazy lady and her camera. No, I don't know why she would want pictures of this. But she's relatively harmless. I think."
Here a crew member is calling for more help, "We're going to need a lot of cement. Maybe a ton. No! Make that two tons. And some special laminated veneer lumber. And coffee. Bring us lots of coffee. This is going to take awhile."
"You rang?"
To be continued!
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Are those pictures of your limited space? 'cause I gotta tell you, you don't need hobbits for that. That's better than the 'good parts' of our basement. The bad parts mean crawling on your stomach through random broken construction materials and digging holes in the dirt to get under the HVAC lines.
Hey, at least my house can be the best at something, even if it is unaccessible foundations.
I loved your title by the way, harlequin novel houses and surprisingly bendy men. What a combination.
I hope whatever they're doing works though!
Posted by: PlantingOaks | May 22, 2008 12:49 PM
Glad to see things are getting resolved. It's always a bit dispointing to fix the "bones" of a house, that really go relatively unnoticed after the work is done, but when these things get fixed, you don't cring going into that room anymore, thinking of what lies below. Impressed to see you are fixing things in the proper order, and keep us posted, I will be tackling the same problem, and could look forward to gaining from you experience. p.s. you are hilarious, I really appreciate your subtle wit, even if I don't alwasy say so. :)
Posted by: eric | May 22, 2008 5:39 PM
and sorry about the typo's above... forgot to proof my speed typing. my bad.
Posted by: eric | May 22, 2008 5:49 PM
Hey! WE just hired Martin and crew to reinforce OUR sunroom! They did a GREAT job, they cleaned up after themselves FABulously and were highly recommended by our structural engineer.
Everyone who owns an old house has a structural engineer on retainer, yes?
Posted by: Lisa in Oak Park | May 23, 2008 4:41 AM
Oh, I forgot to mention the nuts-and-bolts. GLB poured 3 concrete footings in all, fyi. If you want to come look at what they did, pop over!
Posted by: Lisa in Oak Park | May 23, 2008 4:42 AM
Oh, I forgot to mention the nuts-and-bolts. GLB poured 3 concrete footings in all, fyi. If you want to come look at what they did, pop over!
Posted by: Lisa in Oak Park | May 23, 2008 4:42 AM
Oh, I forgot to mention the nuts-and-bolts. GLB poured 3 concrete footings in all, fyi. If you want to come look at what they did, pop over!
Posted by: Lisa in Oak Park | May 23, 2008 4:43 AM
How about an 8-year-old kid? Just kidding!
Posted by: Allison | May 27, 2008 8:57 PM
Ha! That same guy was in our basement looking at the support beams. funny.
Posted by: Jocelyn | May 30, 2008 7:59 PM