Foundation!

Rooster Haus isn't level and had cedar piers. And, since leveling the foundation can cause cracks in sheetrock, buckling floors, and pipe breaks, it seemed like a good idea to have it fixed before we actually spent a lot of money on new sheetrock, new floors and a visit from the plumber. Waiting for the foundation has been incredibly frustrating. Usually you can count on June to be pretty dry. Not this year. The rain pours down at just about every inopportune foundation-fixing time possible. Need to dig the cedar piers out? RAIN! Need to pour concrete footings? RAIN! Here's what they've pulled out so far. Chad regularly bails out the clay holes. (Some of them are clay, others dirt.)



And here's one of the holes. One day, there will be a sweet, sweet concrete pier there. For now there's only a mysterious leak. We turned off the water at the main, but still the water comes. A contractor friend says that old mains sometimes don't completely shut off. We may have one of those on our hands.



And this is why it's a good idea to get rid of the cedar piers. The termites had a hard time eating the half-century-old cedar pier, but as discussed before: we have particularly hungry and industrious termites at Rooster Haus.