Everything on hold
Back in October 2010 I posted about an issue with our (rented) house with the foundation sinking/shifting in the area under the garage. Well, in these past 4-5 weeks it’s come back with a vengeance with walls cracking, tiles popping up, doors jamming, and more.
Yesterday our landlord came out to fix and square our front door so we could open and close it properly. Next week though we wants to take a look at one the 2×6 beams in the garage that’s become about 10 degrees off from vertical too just how far things have moved. The front door for example had a 2 inch gap between the door frame and the house frame at the top of the frame. It shifted that much!
So to give him access to the corner of the garage the 3 modules on the right side of the layout have come out.
One module is in the garage while the other two are in the guest bedroom.
Depending on what will be required to fix the slab and the crooked walls, the whole layout may need to come out. So I’m just gonna prep up the wiring between modules, remove the trains in staging, remove buildings, etc… and prepare for a layout evac at this point. Which is gonna suck cause the modules were made to go from garage to moving truck to eventually a new house garage, not through through the living room door and down a narrow hallway to the guest room.
Bad news to be sure, but at least you did have the forethought to go the modular route. Lot’s of luck with the repairs, I hope they go as well as expected, and in less time.
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You have some serious problems with the house… And frankly you and your spouse should consider moving out. There is no excuse for a sinking house. That’s some seriously poor foundation work, and I won’t be able to stay in such house that is shifting so much. This is borderline dangerous.
Oh yeah, we have considered moving and looked at couple houses but nothing has been quite as nice (interior wise) and at the price we’re paying.
On a good note, the owner has a couple shoring companies coming out this month to look at house. So hopefully in a month or two everything will be taken back to normal.
The owner came out last weekend, looked at the garage and said he saw no structural issues so I put the layout modules back in. Everything lined up fine expect for one piece of track I had to cut. A quick relaying of track fixed that up. Just need to reconnect all the power bus wires and it’ll be back in business.