It’s my garage, built after a tree crushed my even older garage in the 1970s. This brown plywood monster was paid for and built by Allstate Insurance. As you can see, they spared no expense.
Sure, I could demolish it and start again, but it’s much more interesting to try to salvage what’s there—and it’s cheaper.
Let’s begin with the termites. They’ve been on a high-fiber diet for two decades. This is a front corner with its plywood siding damaged by termites and rot.
Here’s the same corner with the plywood removed. It looks bad—and it is—but it’s old damage. The termites are long gone. As mentioned in the previous blog, the planarian worms and black-widow spiders are still there.
Was Isaac Newton wrong?
This back corner is defying gravity by supporting the walls and roof without any foundation. The old stone foundation caved in a few years ago.
Next, the rebuilding begins. Here’s a preview:
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