I, Floyd, and Dave are back at it again. We are removing the north retaining wall to get at a notched rotten beam. This means shovelling more dirt, removing bits and pieces of retaining wall and three posts, and hauling out buckets of dirt. Now you see it, …
… now you don’t.
Here’s that beam, notched in two places and rotten in many.
We also removed the remnants of another beam under the east rim joist and slid the new beam under it.
We found lots of goodies hidden in the soil. I regret I didn’t take pictures. Show And Tell to come later.
Here’s another beam. We cut part of it away to repair the floor above. The old owners seemed to have a thing for notching load-bearing, structural timbers.
