Slowly but surely, things are coming together at Sunset. Grace and Chekhov finished the French drain project a few days ago; Sunday they started on a gutter system. These things are necessary because Sunset is located on the edge of a rain forest, yet the previous owners somehow managed to go over 90 years without any means of properly carrying the copious volumes of rainwater which the property receives every year away from the house! After the gutters, Grace is going to start on constructing concrete footings so as to stabilize the house against further soil erosion, and then we’ll be able to fix the floor issues which enabled me to buy this property at roughly half the market value of comparable places in the area. Then we’ve got roofs to redo, bookcases to build, a bathhouse to construct, and a bunch of other things to buy to make it all happen. And as soon as we can find the right one, we need to acquire a companion for this lonely llama; though he enjoys watching the chickens and chasing the dog, I think he would probably like some other woolly quadrupeds to share his barn with.
Diary #425
August 21, 2018 by Maggie McNeill
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Will you be using a jack to bring the floor to true horizontal? Our family house had sunk in some places over the years, I was maybe about 12 when my dad said he was going to make one side of the house level again. I was so impressed that one person (with occasional added muscle from me at 12) could lift the side of a house six inches using a simple screw jack. I wish you the very best as you build your estate. Ms. Roman.
Ms Roman? You mean McNeill?
Yes, she’s going to use jacks, plural. One of the main floor joists has rotted and needs to be replaced.