Looking good! On Sun, Sep 5, 2021 at 11:43 AM Curt Raymond via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> 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 > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > -- OK Don "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." Mark Twain “Basic research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I am doing.” Wernher Von Braun 2013 F150, 18 mpg 2017 Subaru Legacy, 30 mpg 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
