All Jacked Up!

This past Saturday and Sunday we were all jacked up!! ...the blog cabin that is:) We literally jacked up the back left corner of the blog cabin using 1 hydraulic jack, 1 bottle jack and a few pieces of scrap wood for some extra support. I have to admit there was a very large part of me that was concerned that our little blog cabin may give way and roll off the cliff into the river behind it, but much to my surprise, that did not happen and it was a huge success! Once the cabin was all jacked up, we removed the old crumbling cinder block that was supporting it and dug out the back corner. We needed to dig out that corner so that we could pour a nice level cement floor. We decided to add a floor to the interior to our foundation so that we can keep our water heater under our house rather than keeping it inside the cabin in a closet or taking up unnecessary space in our bathroom. So, we spent a little extra time for a little extra space:) We hand dug the corner with pick axes and shovels, leveled the ground, built a form, mixed the cement and poured half the floor (the other half will be dug, mixed, and poured next weekend.) It doesn't look like much, but if you take a look at the before and after pictures below, you can see it's quite a difference for 2 days work. Once we build the block up we will add an access door to enter and exit the crawl space to service our pipes & water heater when needed. If we are lucky we will have a little extra space for bike and kayak storage. Our last project on Sunday before packing up and returning to the city was replacing the support and removing the jacks. For this we borrowed and old column from my sisters house that was no longer in use and cut it to the current height of the blog cabin floor. once it was placed, we sloooowly released the jacks to lower the house onto the much more solid post. In about 2 more weeks we will have the other half of our floor poured and the rest of the cinder block stacked!.... And then...DEMOLITION BEGINS Grrrrr! Time to rip the entire back end off the blog cabin!

Stay Tuned for more pictures and video footage of the blog cabin adventure!

-J

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