Today was Sunday, but it was a work day for Zach Grover and Mike Flynn - they put new underpinning under our deck. It is quite a transformation, as you will see below in the photos. They arrived during our Guilford Church virtual service, but they knew what to do without help from me, though I eventually went down, of course, and made sure they got their questions answered. They made pretty quick work of it - Zach is an artist with a backhoe. They had to jack up the deck, put in temporary support posts, take out the existing posts one at a time, dig out the cement sonatube piers that were in the ground under the posts (they were part of the problem - they had tilted over the years) and put in new piers - of new design, more like a pyramid than a tube - and put in new support posts (6"x6" instead of 4"x4" which is what the originals were) the new ones all pressure-treated wood. It all went pretty smoothly. Here are some photos:
Later this week, Mike will come back and start replacing joists with new ones.
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