Leveling our Warped Floors in our 100 year old Farmhouse // The Homestead #3

Episode 3 of our Farmhouse restoration and renovations. Today had us mostly in the cellar pouring concrete pads, taking out the old rotten cider posts that were holding the house up, and replacing them with temporary posts as we wait for the cement to cure. Because of age of the building the construction practices of the time had them cementing the floor beams directly into the foundation which lead to the ends of beams rotting out and the house settling and warping the floors. This had previously been worked on but all that they had done was put new partial floor joists in to replace the sections of rotten ones, and then those were supported by boards that were nailed into the old rotten beam. What we are doing instead is jacking up the floor joists and putting a new beam in on either side of the basement, then I will slowly adjust the jack posts under the new beams and lift the floor where it needs lifted and lower it where it needs lowered in an attempt to straighten the floors. Right now we have a big hump in the middle of our kitchen and a couple of slopes on either side.
Huge shout out the the Family for helping on this project, We would not have been able to do this without all of our help.
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