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Photos of Lois Edwards' House
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Front view of house.
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View from the street of the deck side of the house.
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Other side of house. It still has all of its original matching windows.
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Back of house, this little room is a large pantry, laundry and bathroom area off the kitchen.
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Kitchen cabinets.
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Living room when the school was using the house as a classroom.
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The old garage, it was destroyed by a tree. My old neighbors Rick & Dawn salvaged wood from this & the deck and built a great "pirate" tree house.
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Here is what the upstairs looked like, after you climbed a pull-down attic ladder to get there.
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Photos of the destination property:
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View from the valley, the house will go to the right of the barn.
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View of the valley
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Aerial photo from tax records.
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Looking north towards the Cedargreens' house.
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Snow day view.
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I took this photo in high school, it's the title page in the yearbook. I had no idea I would buy this lot one day!
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Front of barn.
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Interior of the barn.
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Silo end: you can see the barn was already starting to de-stabilize at the back end.
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A section of the back end fell spring 2006.
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The silo.
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More snow.
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More snow.
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Snow in the Edmonds' maple trees.
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Looking towards Craven Farms.
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Snow helped some of the front of the barn fall down, windstorms & heavy rains also took their toll.
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More snow.
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More snow views.
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Excavation work: a day's minor driveway widening turned into a week's crater
excavation! Later I learned that much of this hillside was created from sawmill
waste, so by this time, it was rotten and too unstable to cover with gravel.
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This is where the house shall go.
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One of World Excavating's dump trucks.
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Start of the hole...
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Seemed like teaspoons being added to the hole. For months afterward, I'd feel anxiety every time I heard dump truck compression brakes!
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The hole got bigger until the excavator was smaller than the hole!
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Another view of the engulfed excavator.
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Excavator putting the dirt back on the driveway slope.
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Water lines & power conduit gets run from the street.
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Reinforcement fabric laid below final gravel layer.
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Final driveway looking towards road.
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"Before" view of driveway, showing how narrow it was originally.
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The foundation hole. There were underground springs here, so I had to install extra drainage to move the water out of the foundation.
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Preparing the house for moving: cut off roof, did initial rot repair, & removed
vinyl siding. Then Bob Cook's crew punched holes in the foundation, slid in a
couple of I-beams, jacked it up, and inserted dollies.
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Taking off vinyl siding: though it was similar in color, the original cedar beveled siding was much classier looking.
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Dry rot in the rim joists from gutter leaks & poor deck construction.
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Stripping 2nd floor 80's remodel.
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The last of the wall framing gets cut off & the house is tarped.
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The little laundry room roof came off too.
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Final tarp job kept it dry throughout the ordeal.
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Punching holes for the beams. This is done the old fashioned way, with a sledgehammer.
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Bob's "Smokey & The Bandit" era boom truck. It died once in Ed Stocker's pasture during the move! (it was a loose wire) :-0
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Ingredients for moving a house: a boom truck, some cribs, some beams, some dollies & some hydraulic jacks.
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What it looks like underneath.
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More underneath.
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They pulled it up out of the foundation hole and close to the street: all ready for the move two days later.
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View from back after pulling it away from foundation.
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The Big Move: Sunday June 25, 2006: 10pm --> 2am (four miles in four
hours).
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Michelle & Keith Vest watching the beginning.
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The empty foundation left behind in town.
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Emerging from the lot.
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The tow truck/crane.
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Front of house is on the street.
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Last dolly goes down the curb.
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Spinning the house around.
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Towing back end first.
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It starts heading down 5th Street.
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The pilot crew lights made it very bright and surreal to watch. It caused many people to emerge from their houses as we passed by.
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Waiting to turn into Ed Stocker's cow pasture (complete with cows still in it).
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Full moon...
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Michelle and her "coffee" (with a little something extra):)
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Turning into the field.
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In the pasture.
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Tracks in the wet grass.
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Going through the cross-fence.
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Under the train trestle #1.
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Trestle pic #2.
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Trestle pic #3.
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Trestle pic #4.
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Entering the site driveway.
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Shane's driveway job holds up fine.
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The day after: moving it into the foundation hole & jacking it up on cribs. And,
the way the old site looked with a hole where a house once was...
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Sitting in driveway post-move.
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Reeling out boom to pull the house towards the barn.
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Pulling.
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Going downhill into the hole.
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House in place in foundation hole.
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Dollies ready to remove.
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Adding more cribs underneath.
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Jacked up to final height.
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Old vacant lot: the lawn hardly shows where the dollies rolled only one day before.
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Foundation forms. I didn't get any photos of the pour, because the crew was
shorthanded on 4th of July weekend, it was hot, the concrete was curing fast, so
I actually had to help. We made a 4.5' tall crawlspace, which was very useful
since so much work had to be done under there later, and now it's handy for
storage. I also can't find any photos of setting the house down on the
foundation; though it is sort of the same process in reverse.
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Footings.
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The house was jacked up high enough to make it easy to work underneath. Joist rot repair was needed as well.
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Travis VanOverbeke finishing the forms.
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Post-move: re-building the roof/second story, making
her back into a house!
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Trusses being dropped.
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Craning each truss.
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More trusses.
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Dan nails the final truss in.
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Starting to look less like a cube!
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View from the pasture.
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Upstairs taking shape.
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After repairing bad trusses, she's finally sheeted!
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Felt going on roof.
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Barn swallow family under the house. Despite continual hammering, & lowering the house while they were setting, they finished raising their babies.
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Carpenter ants in the back room!
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New roof.
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Stairs taking shape.
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Dan finishing the stairs.
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Sheeting on, facia details reproduced.
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'80s bay window goes away.
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Upstairs insulation.
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Drainfield is in pasture, this is looking back over the tite line; which was bored under the drainage ditches due to "fish".
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Insulation & sheetrock--"snow" in the air is sheetrock dust.
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Upstairs sheetrock halfway done.
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Lots of holes in the plaster where new wiring was pulled.
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New breaker box to replace the old knob & tube and fuse box wiring.
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Siding finished.
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Siding finished on back. I still had a lot of "Grapes of Wrath" yard mess to clean up!
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Living in a construction zone... Extra lumber & salvage material in the dining room.
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A real working toilet and shower was a big luxury in January.
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I woke after a storm to find my building permit packet in standing water. :-0 I had to dry it all out sheet-by-sheet.
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Pocket doors come out-- they had been nailed shut for over forty years!
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The November, 2006 flood. We were lucky: the dikes only gently over-topped. They
turned on the French Creek pump station the next day, so our valley was drained
in a few days.
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Looking from the driveway down. The house is about 50' higher in elevation than the water. By this photo, it had already receeded some.
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Some drainfield PVC floating, and my dirt/rock piles mostly submerged. They stayed put though! Harnden's trees are above water too.
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Water rushing over road, as designed, on a concrete curve to prevent pavement erosion.
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Looking south from the road towards the river.
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Road closed! I worried about my pasture driveway, it was the focal point of the current, but it survived.
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School demolition: at the old site, the three other houses that were purchased
didn't get moved in time. They, and two more structures, were demolished and
land-filled. The site is slated to be a staff parking lot.
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Little green 1950's ranch house. It had beautiful oak hardwood floors.
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The big white Victorian. It had incredible 10" baseboards, fir floors, stained glass windows and was dripping in woodwork and period detail.
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The red Craftsman Bungalow. I didn't see the inside, but it was beautifully architected and in nice shape.
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The green house that was very similar to mine. I salvaged the floors, doors and windows out of this. It's big front windows are now my front windows!
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Tools of destruction.
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The graveled staging area was where my house once stood.
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Example of the "spalling" of the old paint job-- needed a lot of work!
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East side of house when I started.
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The front "before" shot; the house was "pinto" colored.
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Filling the holes with exterior-grade spackle-type material. I spread this on, then sanded it off, several times.
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Side of laundry room, mostly prepped.
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Back of house, mostly prepped.
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During painting. Lots of ladders required. I built a small scaffold on top of the laundry room roof to get the high peak in the back.
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Done painting, masking still up.
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The finished product! The window trim still needs re-doing, but I got the house painted just before winter weater set on.
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My just reward for finishing the painting: a new tractor!
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