The new shower stall base was put in, and the back and side walls were added. The results: The house is still crooked.
As Dave would comment, “It’s built like a pig barn.”
The only solution is to continue raising the add-on (pig barn) to be level with the remainder of the house. You can’t have plumb, level, square, and straight in an old house, so I’m told. There’s always going to be one or more of those missing from the equation. In this case:
- plumb – The east exterior wall of the add-on was erected without the rest of the house being level. It is more-or-less plumb. It is out less than 1 degree.
- level – The add-on floor is not level yet as there is no support under the north wall rim joist. It is currently being held up by 30-tonne hydraulic jacks under the joists 10-16 inches away from the footing. The floor of the main house (1st floor and 2nd floor) are also not level.
- square – Because the floor is not level, nothing is square, as you can see from the gap between the shower back wall and the side wall.
- straight – There is no way they found the straightest timber with which to build this add-on.
Next step: Jack the add-on and east side of the house until it is level with the west half. There can be no progress in the eastern half of the house until this is done.