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Thanks there making alot of headway. the biggest was Shenadoah Mtn on Rt 33 west of Harrisionburg.the little strip of fire is controlled burns on Westside forrest service road to cut it off.

 

mines called Mortons Neroma. basically the nerves to the toes get mashed together and no real cure except cut the nerves then toes are numb for life. i dont want that. ill let you know how it comes out. said we would know after 2 or 3 treatments.

 

Good afternoon everyone.

That vid from Lisa... Good night, Charlie Brown. I hope everyone walked away from that disaster.

I hope that you can get some relief. I have a similar sensation in both feets, it ended up being big heal spurs. I wear orthotics to help. I can feel a quick degrade in foot comfort when I don't wear them for a few days.

 

My best wishes and stay safe from the wildfires.

 

Good luck Dewayne. I hope the fire crews can get some progress on it with the rain tonight.

 

Tough day, today. Tomorrow has to be better.

I also strayed into a 3rd gen thread.

I know better and will stay out of there…

 

That’s where I was the last time I was up there. Before I fished I rode all the way up to the WV line that stretch gets pretty rugged past where I was fishing.

 

Ok here's the running start of the porch project...

 

ok now heres the details of whats going on.....

first my house has a full 9' tall basement & the basement is out of 12" blocks. there are NO lateral support walls. (i didnt build it).... house is 32x65 then 24x24 garage on it.
then the porch is 4 blocks high above the ground & then they backfilled it with pea gravel & poured concrete on top of it.

YEP all that weight pushing down & no lateral support meant that it buckled the basement wall on that side. Had a basement conctractor come & i beam it with springs a few years back. its not moved any more. but now my wife wants it fixed "back to factory".

while all this was going on the porch continued to move/shift & the foundations for it busted as seen in pix.
fast forward to now: she wants me to save the concrete porch. i poked some holes in the foundation for access & looked it over.
had a structural engineer in the plant draw me up some load & beams. he went with 6" W15 beams with 5 supports under each. The supports are 4" pipe w/1" bolts as jacks.
THat will give me adjustability if/when the clay shifts anymore on the porch... just 1 of these would lift the weight of the whole thing (about 12,000lbs was his figure).

The plan is after ive got the "filling" out from under there & the jacks all in place, going to dig a relief space against the wall of the house the length of the porch & allow that wall to come back out. will then fill it with large D-rock.

later the porch will get skirted with Vinyl fence panels. This will give easy access, adjustability if needed & drastically reduce the weight. Of course the wife gets all new flower beds out of this deal.

now if this goes wack? & the concrete breaks? then will tear it all off, trench it & build a new porch deck, but it wont be concrete. i really wanna save this concrete porch.

think thats the bulk of it. This will not be a quick thing. it took me 2 days to get this far & im toast today. If anyone is interested, will try to do more pix as it goes.

Edit note: if you look at picture #3 you will see how much it had dropped. ive got it pretty level right now. was about 1.25" on that front corner.

 

Duly noted

 

That’s going to be a serious project! Good luck with it.

 

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Too bad she wants to keep the porch, I mean it would be better and easier to take out the concrete, and start new with an engineered wood. A little lighter.

But who am i?

 

Good luck with the repairs.

 

You do go to the GF thread. And you don't like the funny meme thread? Some of those memes are quite risqué.

 

Home made wine night. Purdue game went well.

And, a good night to all

 

Evening all