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Thursday, August 25, 2011

Engineer Has Left the Building

And his belief is that we do not have NOT have serious foundation issues that require pilars under the house.  So that saves us $17,000!!!   He thinks we have a tree root issue and we need to remove 3 or 4 large trees and a couple of large bushes.  Our septic has also been affected by these trees & needs to be dug up & replaced.  We are hoping his thoughts/beliefs are correct and that we do not need pilars.

So now we are canceling the foundation people & estimates.  Getting quotes to move and/or remove the trees & bushes and costs to replace our broken septic system.   We are guessing that work is still going to run approximately $10,000 or more, but we won't know for sure until we have estimates.  So this will still require a loan which will still require us to sell the boat and/or me get a job. 

If the engineer is correct, then in a couple months the house should settle back down and we can make repairs to the brick, walls, and flooring.  If he was not correct?  Well I don't want to think about that. 

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