A corner of our kitchen was added after the house was built. The odd thing was that it was a floating corner, and there was no support underneath it. Fast forward fifty years, and now we have a sagging problem.
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| Look to the right of the scaffolding. See the downward slope? |
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| There's nothing holding this corner up! |
This is also the same corner that once had a
leaky ceiling. Perhaps this addition wasn't carefully planned out and properly built?
In order to fix this problem, the corner would have to be jacked up from the outside... a quarter of an inch at a time. To prevent our windows from being cracked, they took them out and temporarily filled them in with plywood.
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| It's working! |
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| The jack is doing its job. That's Curt doing his job. |
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| We were without windows for a while. |
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| The corner is now where it belongs. The deck has been added, too. |
Now that the windows are back in, it's a sign that this project is moving along!
