I may have mentioned my son and friends going under the house a while back. The majority of our house is about 2 feet off the ground, supported by many posts. Many of the houses here are supported this way, it allows for a cooler house during the hot times, a dryer house during the wet times... and is a culturally appropriate way to make a house.
Ours was originally built by a family who dedicated the first Bible here in 1973, the year we were born.
God gave us the money for it miraculously and we're happy to have a home.
The other day though we were talking about bugs eating wood, and Calvin said "oh that explains the posts under the house."
and I said "what?"
he continued to tell me that while he was under there he saw many supporting posts that looked all eaten up.
Sure enough upon inspection I found one or two. So I called construction over.
They investigated, went under and came out saying "We're surprised your house is still standing."
Who doesn't love to hear that?
and then "have you noticed the floor sagging?"
no it's not sagging.
Short story long...
today they are under the house cutting treated posts and putting down cement. The problem was that back in 1970 when the house was built, concrete wasn't used and the posts were plain, untreated logs.
Thankfully however, the entire repair will run us less than $500 USD, thanks to the power of the US dollar right now and the cheap cost of manual labor in this country.
I'm really thankful Calvin went under the house that day!!!
