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So I was looking into a buying a small house (864 square feet) in a nice, quiet neighborhood here in Western New York (very harsh winters here). The house is beautiful on the inside. The house siding is wood and the porch itself is wood. The photo of the house is attached (I would've just put the photo in the comments here, but the 15 post rule prevented that)...
As you can see in the photo, the front is an enclosed porch that appears to have been made enclosed after the entire structure was already built. Anyway, it's suffering from the following problems:
1. If you look to the bottom right of the porch right next to the right side of the steps, you'll notice an empty space gap, there is a mess of debris and miscellaneous non-descript junk under there.
2. You can see that the steps are sinking to the left.
Also, the photo is unable to show this because of the angle, but there is also a space that has formed between the concrete steps and the wood threshold to where there is just a gap there where you can see straight down under the porch. The wood threshold is just all ragged and torn away.
3. Look closely and you'll notice that the left and right walls are settling into like a "V". shape.
4. You can't see the inside of the porch because there is no photo available, but when you go inside you immediately notice that the porch is slanting down and forward towards the street. Like if you took a ball and placed it at the end where you'd enter the front door and go into the living room, the ball would just roll down right back to you, lol. If you bounce up and down slightly, the entire porch moves with you.
The porch is not connected to the concrete foundation of the entire house, but it's like the wood porch is pulling away from the house.
Some considerations: Inside the living room you can see a number of places that had been visibly spackled then painted over. In addition to that, there is some bowing in parts of the walls and in the bathroom, which likely indicates that at one time there was a serious roof leak and water damage. The roof however is currently in excellent shape and the place has been remodeled, so this issue likely took place many years ago. The gutters appear to be in order, but I did notice some standing water in the basement water trap (is that the correct term?) even though it hadn't rained in weeks, it had been hot for weeks and 90+ degrees that day.
My 4 questions:
1. What--if anything--would need to be done in order to set the enclosed porch wall structures back straight (eliminating the settling "V" issue)..
2. Would correcting the 'V' issue also set the porch floor back to being level again?
3. What type of equipment would be needed in order to do the job?
4. What kind of ballpark figure might I be looking at in terms of cost of this repair (equipment + labor)?
As you can see in the photo, the front is an enclosed porch that appears to have been made enclosed after the entire structure was already built. Anyway, it's suffering from the following problems:
1. If you look to the bottom right of the porch right next to the right side of the steps, you'll notice an empty space gap, there is a mess of debris and miscellaneous non-descript junk under there.
2. You can see that the steps are sinking to the left.
Also, the photo is unable to show this because of the angle, but there is also a space that has formed between the concrete steps and the wood threshold to where there is just a gap there where you can see straight down under the porch. The wood threshold is just all ragged and torn away.
3. Look closely and you'll notice that the left and right walls are settling into like a "V". shape.
4. You can't see the inside of the porch because there is no photo available, but when you go inside you immediately notice that the porch is slanting down and forward towards the street. Like if you took a ball and placed it at the end where you'd enter the front door and go into the living room, the ball would just roll down right back to you, lol. If you bounce up and down slightly, the entire porch moves with you.
The porch is not connected to the concrete foundation of the entire house, but it's like the wood porch is pulling away from the house.
Some considerations: Inside the living room you can see a number of places that had been visibly spackled then painted over. In addition to that, there is some bowing in parts of the walls and in the bathroom, which likely indicates that at one time there was a serious roof leak and water damage. The roof however is currently in excellent shape and the place has been remodeled, so this issue likely took place many years ago. The gutters appear to be in order, but I did notice some standing water in the basement water trap (is that the correct term?) even though it hadn't rained in weeks, it had been hot for weeks and 90+ degrees that day.
My 4 questions:
1. What--if anything--would need to be done in order to set the enclosed porch wall structures back straight (eliminating the settling "V" issue)..
2. Would correcting the 'V' issue also set the porch floor back to being level again?
3. What type of equipment would be needed in order to do the job?
4. What kind of ballpark figure might I be looking at in terms of cost of this repair (equipment + labor)?
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