We got inside the house today! Woo-hoo! This is one of the worst cracks we found, but this is where the chimney runs thru the wall, so that was expected.
The kitchen wall is in the worst shape. The plaster has completely separated from the wall, and there are several long diagonal cracks running all the way thru it. This is what happens when your house goes from nowhere-close-to-level to level. The back door, also in this wall, DOES NOT OPEN. They took the doorknob out, then they pulled all the hinge pins out, and it still doesn't budge. We came in through the front door, which never used to close right before, and now works like a dream. Go figure.
This is the former door to the basement. It's out of square in two directions, and doesn't completely close. Almost every door in the house has this problem now. Apparently the floor is now square, and all the doors are now wrong. The door to the downstairs bedroom doesn't open at all. It's not a huge deal, and actually makes us glad we did the big project, because the house was shifting all that time, and we didn't know it.
This is as far as the boys' bedroom door will close. It's scraping the top of the frame, and then gets stuck. The windows I tried seemed to work fine, but I won't be surprised if some of them are out of whack.
Other than the door thing, the only cracks in the walls were just paint cracks. Wherever the drywall had been taped, the paint cracked. Easy fix. All the pictures and stuff is still on the walls, nothing broken. Yay!
We got inside the house today! Woo-hoo! This is one of the worst cracks we found, but this is where the chimney runs thru the wall, so that was expected.
The kitchen wall is in the worst shape. The plaster has completely separated from the wall, and there are several long diagonal cracks running all the way thru it. This is what happens when your house goes from nowhere-close-to-level to level. The back door, also in this wall, DOES NOT OPEN. They took the doorknob out, then they pulled all the hinge pins out, and it still doesn't budge. We came in through the front door, which never used to close right before, and now works like a dream. Go figure.
This is the former door to the basement. It's out of square in two directions, and doesn't completely close. Almost every door in the house has this problem now. Apparently the floor is now square, and all the doors are now wrong. The door to the downstairs bedroom doesn't open at all. It's not a huge deal, and actually makes us glad we did the big project, because the house was shifting all that time, and we didn't know it.
This is as far as the boys' bedroom door will close. It's scraping the top of the frame, and then gets stuck. The windows I tried seemed to work fine, but I won't be surprised if some of them are out of whack.
Other than the door thing, the only cracks in the walls were just paint cracks. Wherever the drywall had been taped, the paint cracked. Easy fix. All the pictures and stuff is still on the walls, nothing broken. Yay!
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