Brick, stone and other veneers are widely available. Any big box home improvement store will have a few stock selections plus more that can be ordered.
Usually, they will have samples or sample boards you can take home to see onsite. Just make sure you look for veneers suitable for outdoor applications, and also ensure they can be used over your existing foundation material.
Me either. I've been slowly parging my way around my house (one side the block was "deteriorating" for lack of a better word) I struggle to keep it flat, I bet thin brick would have looked better. The flat part may have still been a struggle. Haha
YW!
I take occasional "field trips" to building supply stores/outlets, incl. ReStore, just to walk the store slowly and take a mental inventory of what sorts of stuff is out there and how it's used and/or how I might use it for different applications.
This strategy of "pre-learning" has paid off many times, and for me, it's fun.
Good luck with your Resto!
The majority of stone you see on houses above the first floor are fake rocks that are plastered on. Real rock is too heavy and will not pass code in most states.
The way you really change a foundation is:
1. Move out.
2. Disconnect all the utilities. Jack the whole house up on steel cross beams.
3. Move the house into the back yard.
4. Dig and pour new foundation.
5. Move the house back, reconnect all the utilities.
6. Move back in.
Did this to my mother’s 150 year old farmhouse. Finally got rid of all our allergies.
Did this to our last house, they jack it up on these giant airbags and put big railroad ties stacked like Jenga underneath while they set up a new foundation. I had two separate homes (700 and 800sq ft) on the same lot just separated by a driveway and almost perfectly lined up. Used the driveway as a new entryway/stairway that was kinda like a knuckle to attached the two buildings. Added a second story and ended up with a 2750 sq ft home. In 2013 it cost about 40k to jack it up, pour new foundation and all the framing involved with connecting the two homes, adding the second story and a large sunroom off the back.
And to think the Amish do this by hand. They're a pretty wild community to read about. Personally I'm pretty ignorant on their lifestyle and beliefs but I always read and watch things they do together to accomplish goals and I'm always mind blown.
Eh, when you grow up around them a lot of the romanticism of the lifestyle goes away. I don't hate Amish or anything, but they aren't some virtuous society that we could all learn from. They are basically a cult, they love to make money they just spend it differently than most people. Abuse in the communities both domestic abuse and sexual abuse is rampant. They often shun modern medicine including antibiotics and proper procedures in child birth which has lead to numerous unnecessary deaths just in my local community. Their education systems are wholly inadequate. They don't shower regularly or wear deodorant so you can literally smell them from aisles over when they are inside at a store of something. The ones where I am from resist reflectors or lights on their buggies which over the years have lead to deaths of both amish and "english" people in my hometown. They don't pay their share of taxes but destroy the roads with their wagon wheels. Every time I see one of their kids riding down the road they just look at you with these miserable sad eyes.
On income they report. Which a lot of what they make is under the table. They also do most of their transactions in community without monetary compensation and don’t claim what essentially amounts to barter. If I open a store and take only trade, I have to pay taxes on my “sales” even if I take no monetary compensation.
I think a lot about how my house was built. Like how did they even get the materials here without trucks or do everything without electricity. We're building a large addition and the machinery that has shown up at my house to build it is crazy. I mentioned this to our builder and he said it wasn't uncommon for it to take two years to build a house back then. Now it's just a few months, probably less in tract home neighborhoods.
Same here, 1825 house. I think about the horse drawn wagons coming from somewhere with the timbers, think about how they had no electric lighting, no power tools, how they were mortising these huge timbers with big slicks and mallets, even the studs are mortised into the sills. And in those days, where I live was really in the woods. Just a muddy two track next to a little river. Native Americans were still around. Plenty o' slavery down south. Their lunch buckets and kegs of nails yadda yadda. Probably half the guys walked to work around sunup. Probably quit the project around late November until early May, maybe. Winters were so much colder.
Pretty likely they just went and harvested trees from the area. It pains me to think about going out into our woods and using a hand saw to cut one tree down, much less a whole house worth. I feel weirdly honored to live in such an old house. It's wavy, nothing is square and every project snowballs into at least three more but I freaking love this old house.
Well by 1825 they were using sawn timbers from a mill, probably local, so the wood probably was from nearby, lots of hemlock and white pine, massive red oak sills. Oh yeah, not a square corner or a plumb wall or a level floor in the joint...I love the idea of a home grown product like that, maybe, just maybe the windows came from Boston but the doors are scrub planed and mortised and even if they came from a factory, it was a factory that used at least 50% hand labor. The nails are "transitional" cut nails, the shafts were cut out of steel but the heads are hand made using a hammer and dies. I could bore you for days... :) love this stuff.
I had to pull out the lath that made up the original ceiling in my living room so I could reinforce the floor joists. It was absolutely the filthiest job I've ever done. The dirt and dust that came down was thick and black. I45 years of filth siting up there.
If you own your house I would highly advise you to fix the issue with your window wells. Wet wood will attract termites and carpenter ants. Its not a question of if but when.
Thanks, appreciate the advice. We do own but used up all of our fixit budget on the down payment. Will need to use duct tape and a plunger for the time being.
I live in an area where hurricane Sandy hit pretty hard and a lot of houses were raised after all of the water damaged stuff was ripped out in order to prevent future flood damage.
They didn’t put the house in the backyard though. They just left it lifted up and built a new, way higher foundation right under it before lowering it back down.
I worked on an old house that was just built on the hard dirt. We had to dig under it and jack it up so we could place all the required supports and pour a foundation then sit it back down. I wish we could have just moved it manually digging hard pan while under a house on your belly in 100 degree weather sucked so much.
What change about the foundation do you attribute to eliminating the allergies? Or what type of foundation did it have before, and what type did you build new?
Have you ever seen pics or videos of how they'd float houses to move them between places where it's too craggy to do otherwise?
I knew it was done and always found it neat, but I went fishing in rural Newfoundland with an old timer who had helped with a few when he was a young man and it was even more cool to hear first hand while he was pointing out exactly where they put them in/ took them out, and then showed us two houses he'd helped with.
I used to live in a 3 story, 6 unit apartment building (+2 in the basement) that was moved several hundred yards by the state when they took the lot it was on to build a highway. That happened in the 1960s. I've read about buildings being moved in the 1800s using draft horses. Hell, they likely built the pyramids with people power. Where there's a will, there's a way.
It was a dump, I don't know how old the before image was, I found it on Google Maps. I drove by it every day on the way to take the kids to school and it looked like a trap house before they redid it. The siding was falling off and broken and it just looked sad and run down. It looked a lot better in person afterward.
Brick veneer. I did this on my house. There are cheap, moderate, and expensive ways of doing this. Avoid cheap.
**It is important to get samples and hold them against the siding.** The color of the siding or brick can appear to significantly change when placed against another color.
Stick on brick. It’s about 1/4 inch thick and is glued to the block.
Brick, stone and other veneers are widely available. Any big box home improvement store will have a few stock selections plus more that can be ordered. Usually, they will have samples or sample boards you can take home to see onsite. Just make sure you look for veneers suitable for outdoor applications, and also ensure they can be used over your existing foundation material.
FFS why didn't this occur to me. I had no idea this product existed. Off to research. Thank you so much!
Me either. I've been slowly parging my way around my house (one side the block was "deteriorating" for lack of a better word) I struggle to keep it flat, I bet thin brick would have looked better. The flat part may have still been a struggle. Haha
YW! I take occasional "field trips" to building supply stores/outlets, incl. ReStore, just to walk the store slowly and take a mental inventory of what sorts of stuff is out there and how it's used and/or how I might use it for different applications. This strategy of "pre-learning" has paid off many times, and for me, it's fun. Good luck with your Resto!
search term: "thin brick" it's real brick, just not structural.
The majority of stone you see on houses above the first floor are fake rocks that are plastered on. Real rock is too heavy and will not pass code in most states.
The way you really change a foundation is: 1. Move out. 2. Disconnect all the utilities. Jack the whole house up on steel cross beams. 3. Move the house into the back yard. 4. Dig and pour new foundation. 5. Move the house back, reconnect all the utilities. 6. Move back in. Did this to my mother’s 150 year old farmhouse. Finally got rid of all our allergies.
Did this twice in my various flirtations with construction in the summers. It’s a nerve wracking thing.
Did this to our last house, they jack it up on these giant airbags and put big railroad ties stacked like Jenga underneath while they set up a new foundation. I had two separate homes (700 and 800sq ft) on the same lot just separated by a driveway and almost perfectly lined up. Used the driveway as a new entryway/stairway that was kinda like a knuckle to attached the two buildings. Added a second story and ended up with a 2750 sq ft home. In 2013 it cost about 40k to jack it up, pour new foundation and all the framing involved with connecting the two homes, adding the second story and a large sunroom off the back.
Good god that would well over $150k today
That's Jason Bourne!
He looks jacked!
And to think the Amish do this by hand. They're a pretty wild community to read about. Personally I'm pretty ignorant on their lifestyle and beliefs but I always read and watch things they do together to accomplish goals and I'm always mind blown.
Eh, when you grow up around them a lot of the romanticism of the lifestyle goes away. I don't hate Amish or anything, but they aren't some virtuous society that we could all learn from. They are basically a cult, they love to make money they just spend it differently than most people. Abuse in the communities both domestic abuse and sexual abuse is rampant. They often shun modern medicine including antibiotics and proper procedures in child birth which has lead to numerous unnecessary deaths just in my local community. Their education systems are wholly inadequate. They don't shower regularly or wear deodorant so you can literally smell them from aisles over when they are inside at a store of something. The ones where I am from resist reflectors or lights on their buggies which over the years have lead to deaths of both amish and "english" people in my hometown. They don't pay their share of taxes but destroy the roads with their wagon wheels. Every time I see one of their kids riding down the road they just look at you with these miserable sad eyes.
Don’t forget the puppy mills! 😠 I grew up around them in a few areas in PA and I’m not an automatic fan.
Oh yeah, tons of those. Pretty much anything to make money that doesn’t require electricity.
They may be a cult, but they pay taxes.
On income they report. Which a lot of what they make is under the table. They also do most of their transactions in community without monetary compensation and don’t claim what essentially amounts to barter. If I open a store and take only trade, I have to pay taxes on my “sales” even if I take no monetary compensation.
They also did this: https://www.reddit.com/r/TinyHouses/comments/1cd5rjt/this_tiny_home_was_a_future_tiny_bonfire/
I think a lot about how my house was built. Like how did they even get the materials here without trucks or do everything without electricity. We're building a large addition and the machinery that has shown up at my house to build it is crazy. I mentioned this to our builder and he said it wasn't uncommon for it to take two years to build a house back then. Now it's just a few months, probably less in tract home neighborhoods.
Same here, 1825 house. I think about the horse drawn wagons coming from somewhere with the timbers, think about how they had no electric lighting, no power tools, how they were mortising these huge timbers with big slicks and mallets, even the studs are mortised into the sills. And in those days, where I live was really in the woods. Just a muddy two track next to a little river. Native Americans were still around. Plenty o' slavery down south. Their lunch buckets and kegs of nails yadda yadda. Probably half the guys walked to work around sunup. Probably quit the project around late November until early May, maybe. Winters were so much colder.
Pretty likely they just went and harvested trees from the area. It pains me to think about going out into our woods and using a hand saw to cut one tree down, much less a whole house worth. I feel weirdly honored to live in such an old house. It's wavy, nothing is square and every project snowballs into at least three more but I freaking love this old house.
Well by 1825 they were using sawn timbers from a mill, probably local, so the wood probably was from nearby, lots of hemlock and white pine, massive red oak sills. Oh yeah, not a square corner or a plumb wall or a level floor in the joint...I love the idea of a home grown product like that, maybe, just maybe the windows came from Boston but the doors are scrub planed and mortised and even if they came from a factory, it was a factory that used at least 50% hand labor. The nails are "transitional" cut nails, the shafts were cut out of steel but the heads are hand made using a hammer and dies. I could bore you for days... :) love this stuff.
I'm sure you know about r/centuryhomes but thought I'd mention it if not. It's my favorite sub to hang out in.
Ah! thanks, I've stumbled across of few of those posts.
Could you expand on the allergy comment? We live in a house from.the 1800's and have major allergy issues. Damp in the window wells as well.
I had to pull out the lath that made up the original ceiling in my living room so I could reinforce the floor joists. It was absolutely the filthiest job I've ever done. The dirt and dust that came down was thick and black. I45 years of filth siting up there. If you own your house I would highly advise you to fix the issue with your window wells. Wet wood will attract termites and carpenter ants. Its not a question of if but when.
Thanks, appreciate the advice. We do own but used up all of our fixit budget on the down payment. Will need to use duct tape and a plunger for the time being.
What's to expand on? If you are allergic to molds and mildews a waterproofed foundation will solve your problems. No moisture - no mildew.
Well, for someone like me who knows nothing about this stuff, any info is gold.
Lived next to a house that they gutted, jacked up, and added a ground level floor. Crazy stuff
We're doing this currently. But we moved the house 6 feet west and are building a new foundation directly below where we moved it to. Fun stuff
That sounds super expensive.
I live in an area where hurricane Sandy hit pretty hard and a lot of houses were raised after all of the water damaged stuff was ripped out in order to prevent future flood damage. They didn’t put the house in the backyard though. They just left it lifted up and built a new, way higher foundation right under it before lowering it back down.
I worked on an old house that was just built on the hard dirt. We had to dig under it and jack it up so we could place all the required supports and pour a foundation then sit it back down. I wish we could have just moved it manually digging hard pan while under a house on your belly in 100 degree weather sucked so much.
I bet that was expensive..?? I would like to do it on our 20x30 home. Seems like it would cost a lot though
Does this take care of water issues and eliminate the need for a sump pump?
It did, yes.
Could you tell me more about the allergies stopping? My father lives in an 100+ year old home and is constantly battling allergies!
What change about the foundation do you attribute to eliminating the allergies? Or what type of foundation did it have before, and what type did you build new?
Have you ever seen pics or videos of how they'd float houses to move them between places where it's too craggy to do otherwise? I knew it was done and always found it neat, but I went fishing in rural Newfoundland with an old timer who had helped with a few when he was a young man and it was even more cool to hear first hand while he was pointing out exactly where they put them in/ took them out, and then showed us two houses he'd helped with.
I used to live in a 3 story, 6 unit apartment building (+2 in the basement) that was moved several hundred yards by the state when they took the lot it was on to build a highway. That happened in the 1960s. I've read about buildings being moved in the 1800s using draft horses. Hell, they likely built the pyramids with people power. Where there's a will, there's a way.
Why move the house? No basement?
looks like a brick veneer?
The second pic looks like it has a statue of an iced coffee in the yard
I see a beige house and I want it painted black..
Why would they do that to that nice house. (Not talking about the foundation.)
It was a dump, I don't know how old the before image was, I found it on Google Maps. I drove by it every day on the way to take the kids to school and it looked like a trap house before they redid it. The siding was falling off and broken and it just looked sad and run down. It looked a lot better in person afterward.
Brick veneer. I did this on my house. There are cheap, moderate, and expensive ways of doing this. Avoid cheap. **It is important to get samples and hold them against the siding.** The color of the siding or brick can appear to significantly change when placed against another color.
What's a ballpark price for something like this? I intend to do the work myself if that matters. Thank you!
This was part of a much larger project so I don't know.
I think I would have went with veneer on the sides and back and a deck porch across the front at the height of foundation with skirting
Haha it's crazy to see it actually happen but they litterally just lift the whole house up and set it on stilts.
It’s just brick face. About 1/4”-3/8” thick. They mortar it on like you would tile.
It's a veneer. Other than that, Jack up the house and pray it retains structural integrity.
Like a fuckin boss.
Stone veneer?
They didn't. The old siding covered beyond the rim down the footing. The new doesn't and it also looks stupid
This is what they look like when they become fully mature. Have you been watering yours regularly?
Forget the foundation. What did they do to fix that roof’s ridge-line and the dodgy front corner of the walls where the downpipes are?
Think it's just some artifact from the Google street car moving
Flippers gonna flip.
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Or you can under pinn one section at a time.