Recent content by JTSomm77

Hello everyone! I bought a 33-year-old house last January in northern Minnesota with a fireplace in both the living room and master bedroom. The living room FP is wood burning, and the bedroom FP was wood but converted to a gas log set. Neither flue had a rain cover (I know--WTF?!) so I had...

I just wanted to follow up on the sunroom footing. (Better late than never!) I consulted a few contractors who, in the end, threw their hands up without tearing apart the sunroom. Since there is not enough clearance under the sunroom to get an auger in to dig deeper footings, one guy...

A big thank you to all of you for your replies! This is all not great news but not at all unexpected. (Good information is always good news!) We have a frost depth of up to 60" in this part of MN! I will take a combination of all of your advice and dig new footings in the spring (June in...

Greetings. I bought a house in northern Minnesota recently. It was built in 1983 but had a sunroom added about 8 years ago. It looks like they did a nice job overall but one of the footings underneath the beam is broken up, leaving the post very little material to rest on (see photos)...