As we left the house at 7:00 on Monday morning the truck arrived with three absolutely massive I-Beams to span the length of the house for the raise and restump of the house. They used the crain on the back of the truck and position the steel under the house as much as possible. Below are some photos of them getting the steel under the house:

While they were knocking the walls down they actually discovered that instead of the block walls being filled with concrete they were instead mostly full of beer cans. To be precise they were Castlemain XXXX Gold beer with labels from the 1982 Commonwealth Games, which made me laugh a bit. I also picked up a few pop cans from that era, including a Coke can with a pull tab lid…

Previous Posts in the House Lifting Series:

• Preperation for the House Lift has begun
• Day 2 of the House Lift
• Day 3 of the House Lift

Not much got done on day 3 of the Raise and Restump. While they were working on our place Northern House Raising got an emergency call from another home owner in Townsville. The back of this other persons house had collapsed and they needed some posts and beams put in right away to make the house safe again.

So, not much happened on our place, just a couple more steel beams were installed, that’s all…

Back of the house – looks precarious

Previous Posts in the House Lifting Series:

• Preperation for the House Lift has begun
• Day 2 of the House Lift

Sorry that these are a bit late. We ended up having to spend a good chunk of Tuesday night at the hospital as my son Caleb was having problems breathing. The doctor was thinking that it was because of a cold that he had but that it could also indicate asthma, which would really suck. I had asthma as a kid and it’s not a fun thing to have to deal with…

Back to the house though.

When I first got home from work on Tuesday it didn’t look like there was much change from Monday besides the front stairs being removed. After taking a closer look at it though I could see that they had started to install the steel joists on the bottom of the house to strengthen it and start to level it a bit.

Below are the photos for this…

Some of the new cross beams under the house

There are no more stairs up the front of our house anymore…

A view of under the house, there are a few new holes in the wall

Previous Posts in the House Lifting Series:

• Preperation for the House Lift has begun