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Stage-left-Crawl-Space Kitchen on the right Living room on the Left There is a pier in the middle - you can't see.

Stage-left-Crawl-Space There is a pier and beam about 7 1/2 feet in-between the piers on the outside of the house.

Thanks Bud for the ice damn link, and slowandsteady for the pdf it should help. I probably should read it before this post. Slowand Steady: The rest of the house was built right. The house was free. This is a weekend lake house area. One house was rented because of the economy and there is a...

The floor was built in steps. The bedroom steps down into the kitchen which steps down onto the living room floor. Here is the bottom of the load bearing wall and the step up to the kitchen. Do I try to access the underside of the house by removing some of the kitchen floor? Is it ok that...

And the bad.. I think. This is what is holding up the load bearing wall and kitchen floor. I don't know if you can tell, but there is one pier or post and a can supporting everything

- House of cards: take the top cards off first… Then fix the table leg the house of cards is sitting on. Never build a house on a rotten table. Do you want the good news first or the bad news? I think I have good news. I don’t think any of the new roof is resting on the rotten...

In order to build a temp wall, as I understand it, I am supposed to support the rafters with 2x4's cut at an angle on one end and a bottom plate on the other. The old roof stage Left still has old roof on both sides of the 'ceiling joist' (which is rotten on one end and being held up by wood...

Here is stage Right. Notice the vertical piece of wood that rests on the old roof.

Here are the rafters stage Left (if you were on stage looking at the audience). I don't know what is going on here. Is that one piece of vertical wood holding up the entire roof?

Here we have the 'ceiling joist'. It holds up the old roof. It is rotten and is being held up by a piece of wood for the drop ceiling, which is resting on rotten beams.

It has taken me all day to learn to use a photo program. [to type in some words!] I know it is hard to tell what is going on with all of the extra wood. I want to make sure I don't take down something that will make the roof cave in. Im going to post the photos one at a time so I can...

Sorry I screwed up your names. I was on the iPhone app and have the memory of a gnat. Bud they are live oaks. :) I think like all of you have said, what I need to do is to do as little as it takes to make it safe. I can live here and fix it up as I go. The electric was replaced years ago...

Thanks Neal. I don't know anything about selling houses. Unless the lakes start to rise I don't see myself putting any real money into the place. It is a nice place to write a book and get out of the big city. Relatives bought the kitchen cabinets. So far I have bought a tankless water heater...

Roof photos:

Foundation: