Leveling Out

We have finally started on a major part of balancing the house out. What am I talking about you ask? Well the little old farm house was seriously needing some leveling out. It was on a lean.......

The main part of the house seems fine but we are guessing from the constant flow of water running past it and through the land, it has caused the house to sink over time. It also hasn't helped that the wild boars in the area have been digging up the land in their search for small crabs causing it to become water logged. So we peeled back the tin covering on the side of the house and discovered that termites had also been at work on the wooden stumps!

It basically just flaked off! This is one of the hollow stumps that we found, truly scary!

This whole support beam was a goner!

So we set to work to remove the termite ridden parts and then replaced them with new stumps. As you can imagine it took some time to measure out things and then fit them into place. 

And the end result are these concrete stumps which are typically used in Japan on houses like Obachan's era. Both concrete stumps and wooden blocks have been screwed together and I am assured that this is standard practice! 

This particular picture reminds me of a woman's skirt blowing up in the wind!  You'll be happy to know that the tin was nailed back down, but the idea is to replace it down the line with timber siding which is more in keeping with the rest of the house. Now that this part has been completed we are now able to work on the inside where the new kitchen is going to be and we can't wait to get moving on it.