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That is sure much better use of that wall Darren, and the new cabs are coming along nicely, love the bead board
What does it take to break a joist? holy cow! If your crawl space is like mine, I don't much like going down there. I tend to have to once a year to put a heat gun on the pipes that feed the kitchen....
Some quick pics of the crawl space. Other than the boards and pink stuff it's a pretty clean place, have the insulation down for repairing the joists and running wires, which I should mostly get done tonight.
Light is out in the back...sorry for the dim pic
The sump pump is a future project, not sure it does much good in it's current state. It's only about 12" in the ground and the previous owner left it with the pipe draining back to the pump, not sure any water ever gets pumped outside with no more than it has to pump. The stones are holding down the pit to keep it from floating.
I plan to dig out the hole to the right depth and get the pit set correctly and repipe the drain to slope outside. Also need to run a new circuit just for the pump, they have it on the same one as my living room which throws once in a while if too much of the tv equipment is on.
Some quick pics of the crawl space. Other than the boards and pink stuff it's a pretty clean place...
Light is out in the back...sorry for the dim pic...
Wow. And you even have lights! After spending another weekend crawling around my crawl space, repairing a leak, I really have to say yours is much better than mine. Every time I go under there, I am reminded of the movie Alien, where they are traversing the catacombs of the ship with their homemade flame throwers. I am telling you there are some scary things lurking under the house. And every time I crawl out of there, I always tell the wife "No more crawl spaces, our next house will have a basement"!
Okay, Brent and Bob, your descriptions of your respective sump pits confuse me.
In your houses are these just pits in the ground, or are they connected to drains? Every sump I've ever seen has been connected to the weeping tiles (aka: perimeter footing drains) so that they collect the water that would otherwise build up against the foundation.
Could probably dig a pond in the back yard and it would be full the next day.
If your wife reads this you might suddenly find something added to your honey-do list!!!
(and Sorry, Brent, I meant Darren, not you!)
Bob, back in about 96 we lived in Edmonton in 50 year old house that had been built in a low-lying area of the neighbourhood, with no weeping tiles. We finally had cave and pay the price (Something like $6-8k ) to have them put in. But our basement was partially finished, so it was done outside. Couldn't believe how they did it. Our lot was too narrow for digging equipment, so the guy just shows up with a crew of 6 or so guys with about 7 different kinds of shovels (each) and a bunch of plywood to protect the grass. They had the entire foundation exposed down to the footings in one day. I couldn't believe it. Now granted this was a small 900sqft house, but still it was 7ft down, all the way around the house.
If your wife reads this you might suddenly find something added to your honey-do list!!!