February 20 - Leveling the House & a SNAKE under there too!

Our house has been developing cracks around door frames for some time now. Ryan went under the house (crawl space) to check for level using a water level. He filled a garden hose with colored water and put clear tubes on each end. He attached one end to a board at the door opening, and then crawled around under the house to check to see if it was level.

Door to go in the crawl space. (see all that stuff in there? most of it's going away this spring. If it's not been used for 2, 3, 5, or 10 years...it's time to go!) :)


Ryan getting ready to go into the darkness.


an unlevel view. The water line should be at the bottom of the board. He would yell and ask me which way it needed to go, up or down, then he would move his end then measure how far it was off.


The view from the "hole" looking out


A level view


Turns out the house had sunk about 1/2" to 3/4" in the middle. He jacked it up and put shims on the pillars to level it back up.

Halfway through he yelled..you need to go out for a minute. I of course asked why and he said that he needed to throw a critter out...this is what he found/saw/heard crawling under the plastic under the house: A SNAKE!