Jacked UP

Back during the 14 March rain storm that closed River Road in Tewksbury, one house sustained sufficient damage to its basement that it was condemned.  However, the owners are fighting to keep it and that means some heroic efforts.  Why would they want to sustain it?  The wife told me that her Father had originally built the home and there is sentimental value as well as property value.  For instance, the view out the back door is wonderful, looking down the hill and out over the course of the Trull Brook Golf Club.

As you can see from this picture, the house has been jacked up and there are steel beams running from left to right and held up by beams criss-crossed to make pylons to hold up the steel beams.  Thus the old mess can be cleared out and a new foundation put in place under the house.


Here is another view.


Here is the right hand side of the house (seen from the street), showing how the shoring goes right up to the roof at this point.


And, the last photo show the couple who own this house, wife on the right and husband on the left.


I wish them the very best of luck in their efforts.

Regards  —  Cliff