A little wall

They are still getting things ready to lower the house. They had to build this little wall on top of the other wall because of the way the house was constructed.
They are attaching boards to the house where the walls will meet the house. This is so they can attach the house to the new walls.
An interesting thing about this wall is there is a window pane in it. It is covered by the siding on the outside of the house and by drywall on the inside of the house. We don't know why it is there. We only know it's there because we had to remove the drywall after we were flooded. Now that we are above flood level it may never be seen again.

This and that

Today they did things that need to be done, but aren't as impressive as a new wall. They worked on some of the headers over doors and windows. This is the header over the front door. The gap over the header shows how much we are going to be lowered.
They also put boards on the house to match the walls.

All walled in

They finished putting up the exterior and interior walls of the house today The front wall has a lot of gaps because of the two garage doors. They couldn't put the headers in because of the beams holding up the house are in the way.
We have a lake in our front yard.
This is the last interior wall. This is the one they started yesterday. We still have water under the house.
They need to put in posts to help hold up our floor. These are three of them. There are others in other parts of the house.
They also need to put in concrete blocks under our fireplace. This pad with rebar poking up is where they go.
Another house in our neighborhood has been raised and is on Jenga piles. I guess we started a trend in our neighborhood.

The walls keep coming

They built this interior wall today. This wall has the door that separates the garage area from the rest of the walk space.
They are also building another interior wall. This one will be the side to one of our garages.
You can see where the outside door will be. It is the low spot in the concrete at the bottom of the picture.
We had heavy rain today. Some of the water drained under the house. You can see it at the bottom of to the Jenga pile to the right of the wall. We also have a lake in our front yard.