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Anyone intersted in a little free advice dispensing?
I just became involved in a project through a regrettable family tie that has been casuing me headaches. The building I’m dealing with is a small(15’x25′) cabin in the Catskills which was initially built with a 2×4 (!) floor system on top of shallow piers on a steep slope by a bunch of teenagers with absolutely no experience. Needless to say the piers heaved rather quickly and the past 35 years have seen those teenagers, no nearly old men doing everything half baked and crazy to keep the cabin from sliding away down the mountsin.(Including logs wedged between the front of the cabin and the hill, and a whole pile of doubled 2×8’s spaced randomly without any rim joists holding them together beneath originla 2×4 structure.) Now, it has been given to me to fix the problem and becasue of sentimental attachment my original suggestion of a bonfire has been rejected. (The floor is just the beginning of about 60 glaring errors in this dump. I was planning to jack up and support the 2×4 floor on 6×6 cribs, dig up and resink new piers with my trackscivator from the sides, and build a new 2×8 joist, doubled 2×10 girder floor with rimjoists on top of them. Any other bright ideas form the years of experience out there? Just checking, thanks.
Flynny
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Anyone intersted in a little free advice dispensing?
I just became involved in a project through a regrettable family tie that has been casuing me headaches. The building I'm dealing with is a small(15'x25') cabin in the Catskills which was initially built with a 2x4 (!) floor system on top of shallow piers on a steep slope by a bunch of teenagers with absolutely no experience. Needless to say the piers heaved rather quickly and the past 35 years have seen those teenagers, no nearly old men doing everything half baked and crazy to keep the cabin from sliding away down the mountsin.(Including logs wedged between the front of the cabin and the hill, and a whole pile of doubled 2x8's spaced randomly without any rim joists holding them together beneath originla 2x4 structure.) Now, it has been given to me to fix the problem and becasue of sentimental attachment my original suggestion of a bonfire has been rejected. (The floor is just the beginning of about 60 glaring errors in this dump. I was planning to jack up and support the 2x4 floor on 6x6 cribs, dig up and resink new piers with my trackscivator from the sides, and build a new 2x8 joist, doubled 2x10 girder floor with rimjoists on top of them. Any other bright ideas form the years of experience out there? Just checking, thanks.
Flynny