The crew arrived this morning to start the work in our basement to put up steel bracing along the south wall and on each side of the window on the west wall. The steel braces are 5" C channel and the bottom has to be cemented into the floor. So today they were using jackhammers to make the holes in the basement floor. It was very loud and vibrated the whole house.
I was working from home today due to the weather. It was blowing snow today and we are headed back down to around -30C for the weekend, after being up above 0C for a while. (At the risk of another
comment that I always talk about the weather.) Anyhow I was working from home reviewing a report and writing up my comments with the jackhammers going right below my office. Elaine said it would be nice to go out somewhere if the weather wasn't miserable.
After the crew was done for the day we went downstairs and looked around and took some pictures.
There are a total of 12 braces to be done and they have jackhammered 7 1/2 holes so far. They have 3 jackhammers and two can be seen along the wall in the picture. They will be back tomorrow to do the other holes
This is one of the steel braces set into a hole made in the floor and leaning against the side wall. When completed it will be put up against the wall and bolted to the floor joist above.
After this work is done we will continue with our plans for how we want to finish the basement. To be continued ....
3 comments:
You need to wear a headset when they are there. Or better yet, take your wife somewhere warm like Cuba for a week.
No! Somewhere warm like Victoria!!!
Could you tell us who your engineer is? Lots of us are looking at basement renovations in DC and need reliable engineers to advise on dig outs/structural support, etc,
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