What a difference a day makes! After a quiet week last week, with only one day of work performed (due to personal circumstances with one of our contractors), Jon and I were amazed to watch the house get raised 6 feet and turned about 45 degrees around all in about 8 hours!
Brent's team laid 10+ levels of railways ties in order to get the house up to the height needed to get under it and set it up to spin. Then they placed two additional steel beams under the house, at wide angles to the existing pair of beams holding up the house. The two new beams were lubed up with Sunlight dish soap so that the existing beams could slide smoothly, steel on steel. The house beams were chained together, then the excavator got linked in and pulled the house around. Once they reached roughly a quarter turn, the bottom beams had to be repositioned to allow for further turning. The new supports have been set up, and tomorrow Foxhall Cottage will complete her revolution!
See how it unfolded here:
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| Reno Project - Jacking ends |
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| Reno Project - Moving the House |
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