Recent content by Donny

Framed with a roof on. No doors or windows hung.

Sheeting That's what I need! So that over the studs then a house wrap. Last the siding and on the interior wall some roll in insulation?

I framed in a small add on. 2x4 framing. Can I just attack ridged insulation directly onto the joists,tape the seams. Then install hardipanel to the ridged insulation? Or will there be to much "squish"?

They finished yesterday. I still have some high and low spots. Some of those are due to me shimming to make things look straighter (years ago). One room is still pretty bad. What he said about it is. The wood has bowed and twisted from being so far down on one side for so long. Lifting on bowed...

On the down payment thing I get where the contractors are coming from. You want to know you are getting paid. You have money out and time. A lien on a house in texas doesn't do you much good if the home owner doesn't want to pay. On the home owners side,there are just to many thieves. I figure...

Not much happened today. The helper aka the one that does all the work was alone today. Only worked 4-5 hours. He removed some more rim joist and the beam under that. He left that section of the house held up by some 20ton bottle jacks. I am not real happy about the bottle jacks. I put down a...

Well today was the first day. Only one guy working on it but he used some railroad jacks on the side of the house and on the front. Removed the beam and rim joist. Replaced the beam with a treated 4x6. The rim joist was replaced with 2x6 with some shorter 2x6's as spacers and another 2x6(all...

Well guys he starts tomarrow. I took the day off work as to be where the action is. I will be ready to say OMG STOP!!! I hope it does not come to that. As to the sub floor maybe I can add a joist to tie the wall to the sub floor. Toe nailing from the bottom of the house. After the wall is...

It has been cut out and replaced. No longer under the wall.

Not to scale and does not have correct amount of joists.

This crudely drawn pic is as close as I can get you to getting to crawl under my house. Not that you are not invited lol. I hate hiring contractors. My first exp was a bad one and left me with a new roof that leaked. After that I did everything myself except for some plumbing. My plumbers...

My guess is that by picking up the wall behind the front wall that the rafters will lift on the wall and allow it to be pushed in? I did google stalk the contractors,as in BBB,angies list and look at their business location. Almost all are homes,or manufactured homes and pretty modest...

The concensus seems to be that this is an easy house. None seemed to think this is much of an issue. They have all seen much worse. The fellow I plan on hiring said that the whole house settled at the same time and it all has to be raised at the same time. Right now the wall is holding up to...

I honestly think only one of the contractors out of 5 that bid this job was bonded and insured. He was not the one hired. None of the contractors inspired to much confidence. That's one of the reasons I will be on site!

Looks like I am going the contractor route. It is not a done deal yet,he still has to draw up the contract. He is the lowest bidder...As a precaution I plan on being at home the first day. I also have him breaking up the usual half upfront and half after into 3 payments. As to have a slightly...