And The Rehab Begins

So the first couple of days were fairly uneventful, at least from a photo standpoint. Since the house had been sitting vacant and gutted since Hurricane Katrina it suffered a lot of wood rot and termite damage. Quite a few of the floor joists, the framing that makes up the foundation, was rotted and/or eaten. So the guys spent the first few days repairing/replacing the support pilings and replacing the damaged wood floor joists. The we found out the next morning they were going to remove the siding, it too was heavily damaged, and were going to begin removing the one outside wall.

The house was leaning a bit to the right because of the damaged foundation, now repaired, and the outside wall on the right side. So the idea was to support the roof on the right side, remove the outside wall and rebuild it. We went by the project at lunch time. They already had the wall replaced. In talking to the guys they said, “We didn’t like seeing that roof hanging there without a wall. It made us nervous. So we built the wall back pretty quickly.”

I guess I’m glad I came by after the wall was already finished.

New outside wall just finished.

The view from the inside