Our house is literally falling down. Yes, you read right. In the midst of all of our remodeling, our house has decided to fall a little bit. About a half an inch to be exact. Let me explain...
Last week when I was painting, I noticed that the cabinets had pulled away from the wall. About 1/32 of an inch (which doesn't sound like much, but it is noticeable) and that there was some sagging in the walls. I then went looking and found several cracks in our plaster walls that indicated that something moved. Upstairs in our guest bedroom, there is about a 1/2 inch buckle in our floor by our radiator heater. So I did more investigating and discovered that one of the floor joist's in our basement has been cut (years ago) from the foundation and there has never been a support put under the floor in this location after it was cut. Soooo after all of the work being done on the house, the old place decided to give a little where there is no support.
I will fix it, but it scared the bejeebers out of me a little until I figured what the problem was.
Our remodel is going fine other than this and will look incredible when it is all done. I just thought I would write about the joys and dilemma's of working on a 130 year old house.
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