Eight months since the 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck, centered just a handful of miles from our house, and we are now finally starting to get some of the structural repairs completed. We completed some of the initial cosmetic repairs ourselves, and will be working on other small projects for some years to come. But the work to the house foundation, decks and pier/beam structures are being completed by a contractor. Here the contractor dug out a concrete pad that had shifted during the quake, and rebuilt the support for an upper deck.
He used some small equipment to sink helical piles into the ground to provide new supports for the 2nd story deck.
I think we'll like this alternative solution to sonotubes or concrete pads.
Afterwards, we had him build a Trex deck in place of the old concrete pad.
And now the deck supports are beefed up to 4x6 versus the previous 4x4 supports, which were damaged during the quake.
Landon's room is still torn apart, while we figure out how we're going to reinforce this wall.
The fissures are all filled, ready for soil and seeding.
I used the broken up concrete pad, and the extra substrate to fill in some of the fissures caused by the small land slides, though I didn't have enough to do the whole job. Fill dirt and rocks are a little hard to order this summer, due to the state using much of it to make road repairs from the quake. But it feels good to finally get some of the work started.
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