Third Post Part Two: The Post

Hey everybody! Ryan wrote this blog post after he installed the final post almost entirely by himself. I'm suffering from a case of paddler's (tennis) elbow and typing, hammering, lifting, etc. all kinda suck for me right now. So without further ado, Ryan's Post:

Our house is no longer sitting on bottle jacks!  Managed to get this done in less than two hours, so we're definitely getting better at it.

That tofu block is just sitting on top of our new slab.
If the house continues to shift we can jack up the post,
slide the block back underneath, and drop it back down.
It's a feature.

Concrete looks a little chunky, shut up.
Even at 10% of its rated strength it could
support the weight of our entire house.

That joist on the right is mostly sound
under the termite scabs, I swear.

In the process of jacking up the house we lifted the roof a bit, which lifted up the posts in the laundry area that were supposed to be supporting the eaves.  We stuck some shims underneath, but the bottoms of these posts are pretty rotten.  Maybe we can amputate the gangrenous bits and slide some blocks underneath. Definitely our next carpentry project. Stay tuned!