[Sca-cooks] Books was Martha Washington's Booke of

[Elaine Koogler]

I know what you mean.  Our builder put a steel I-beam under the entire
length of our house...and there's another under our jacuzzi and yet another
supporting our sunken living room!  I believe you could drive a herd of
elephants through this house and nothing would happen!

Kiri

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Patricia Dunham <chimene at ravensgard.org>wrote:

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>
> Absolutely!  One of the things that sold us on our in-many-ways "unique"
> 50's tract house 20 yrs ago was seeing the bearing beams under the house...
>  my recollection from being under there stringing the satellite line from
> one end of the house to the other, is that they are about 8x18 (!), set on
> concrete piers, and run the entire length of the (admittedly) small house!
>  We tend to find the bearing walls and run the bookshelves along them.
>
> chimene
>

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