Day 51

Paul and the guys are finishing up and have moved to 'misc' items - like levelling the ground floor which drops a little over an inch from the old kitchen into the dining room. The solution was to take off the floor boards and install new floor joists beside the existing ones at 1/8" increments until we get back to the right level. 

Paul removing the old floor boards

After that the mail floor ceiling needs to be levelled. Below you can see the portion of the ceiling where the joist running across the house were cut so that a heating duct could be run. When the dividing walls were taken out, whenever they were taken out, the joists were not reinforced, the resulting pressure has caused the joist to crack and drop over an inch.  

This is fixed tomorrow by installing new joists beside the existing ones. It will add the strength necessary to keep it from sagging further but I don't believe we are going to get the ceiling levelled much if at all. 

Cracking on either side of the cut joist

The heat duct runs from left to right in this picture. The 2x8 joists have become 2x4 where the duct work was.