This home looks beautiful from the outside. The owners have lived in it for about thirty years. They have done a good job of maintaining it and obviously took pride in it. Oddly, it wasn't until satellite installer was running wire in the crawl space of their home that they really understood the condition of load bearing "floor levelers" under their house. If memory serves me right, we replaced over forty supports that were all in various stages from completely failed to seriously compromised by corrosion.
Because we had done work in this area, a neighbors reference resulted in a call to American Craftsman, and within a couple of weeks we were on the job and restoring the support system and redistributing the tremendous loads of furniture, appliances and weight of the home to where the engineers had designed them to go. The homeowner had noticed squeaking and bouncy floors and a few cracks in the drywall. Other times doors start getting sticky, it really depends on what has failed, or is failing and where. Our homes talk to us, maybe not with words, but with noises and signs that if understood can help us to maintain them for many, many years.
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