Todays project

[knothead]

This is total failure of the main carrying stick.
Here are some before and after pictures. There are actually 2 new beams
in there straddling the old piers, so where there used to be 3 spruce
2x6's ,there are now 4 pressure treated 2x8's. The old beam is still in
place. There are 5 new posts in there. They are now every 6 feet
instead of 8. We dug down about 8 inches and dropped in stone and
then put 4" thick solid cement block and set our verticals on top of
that. The house is now stabilized but still needs some serious attention.
We were glad to pound the last nail and get the hell out from under
there. It was wet and cold. Wet part was the worst.

[Blue]

Yikes! mmmmmmmmmm

[naptownCr]

I really liked the beam splice in the air a foot away from a pier.:rolleyes3:

[Allrounder]

Ugh, what an awful place to work. We insulated a crawlspace a couple of years ago that looked like that.

[knothead]

I really liked the beam splice in the air a foot away from a pier.:rolleyes3:

The pier your seeing is the old pier and it is laying over. The splice is setting over the new pier if you look a little closer

[Bodger]

Nice work, I hate working under houses. Had a big job a few years back that called for UFPs every four feet. My neck was stiff for a month.

[nEighter]

Eff that! You guys got some good coin I hope. Looks like a damn mine. No way I want to work under something as heavy as a house or 2 miles of dirt above me.. no way man.

Okay only exception to that would be if the support was NOT broken..

[mmike032]

looks like a great job for someone besides me

[Absolute Basements]

I don't think there is enough money to get me under there.

Back in my younger days, maybe.

Nice job, BTW.

[DavidC]

We had to do a similar repair on a 4 unit single story building once. The repair was on the end unit, the only access was on the other end. Belly crawl all the way bringing tools and materials, and back out. Fun times.

I don't like getting in there the first time, but after that I don't mind. Kind of like I don't like to get my hands dirty, but once I do I'm in all the way.

Good Luck
Dave

[shanekw1]

I really liked the beam splice in the air a foot away from a pier.:rolleyes3:

I'm looking at 6 beams in my basement right now, all of them are spliced a foot from the beam that supports them.

To even it out, the splices are staggered on opposite sides of the supporting beam.

The 1x and 2x6 scabbed on the sides must be helping a lot.:rolleyes3: