We just returned from a week up north. This was a "working vacation" which is to say we did a lot of work up there and I actually hadn't taken the week off from my real job so I was doing that too. I wanted to jack up the enclosed porch on the front of the Cushman house, you might remember our 1880-1920s era farm house on the northern estate. The porch had sagged real bad and allowed water to pool in front of the door which rotted out the sill. Unfortunately we found that the rot actually extended into the whole south end of beam and a bunch of the floor. I managed to save the north end of the beam but had to splice in 174" of new wood. The existing beam was 6" x 6", I ended up putting in 4x 2"x8" to make up the thickness and then putting a 4 foot splice onto the existing beam. I still need to put an outside splice but I ran out of time. Pictures and more details: https://curtsotherblog.blogspot.com/2021/09/things-have-escallated.html -Curt _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com
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