Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!
Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!
Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So, how’s it going?
This morning the SO nonchalantly informed me that half the piles under the house are rotten and the house isn’t high enough to get under it so we’ll have to rip the near-new carpet up to remove the floorboards to get to the piles…
I love our tiny villa but I was hoping our next ‘big’ expense would be the mere replacement of the fridge, which has taken up yodelling.
Damn, that’s a shit sandwich… I wonder if there’s some way to do the carpet somewhat noon-destructively (presumably claiming insurance is ‘beyond cheeky’?)
The beauty of living in a century-old house. Mum has just been through the whole carpet selection process so I’ll definitely be dragging her on board when I do the window shopping. I saw a headline about a survey claiming that more than half of homeowners will be doing renos of some kind in the next year and scoffed so it probably serves me right.
Interesting. For some reason I thought you had to lift the house to replace piles. Learnt something new today.
Yeah, that’s what I thought too but lifting would introduce all sorts of risks involving the building twisting so it’s been designated Last Resort.
Makes sense. I guess you just put a jack next to a pile while you swap it out for a new one. Our house is sinking on one side (apparently not uncommon for a house of its age, especially where there was a fireplace on a concrete foundation and the rest of the house on wooden piles), so I’ve been curious about the process of repiling. I guess for us, twisting the house is inevitable if we want the house flat agin.
From what I gather, we’ll be adding more piles but not neccessarily taking the old ones out? I’m a bit fuzzy on the details, having zoned out of the conversation and into a mild panic attack, lol.
Ah interesting. I’d assume rotten oones should go but maybe they are ok if they don’t touch the house.