Rain. Rain. Rain. a good 7 inches fell over the past day and a half. SO instead of watching our house float away, we decided to take a trip up to Maury, NC to check out where our new floors will be milled. Our Heritage Flooring was very helpful in describing the process and working with us on matching the old heart pine floors in what will be the second story. Our new (reclaimed) floors will likely come from beams that were part of a tobacco factory outside Greenville. This is a different company than we dealt with for flooring the hallway, but the planks will be very similar. . . lots of color variation, nail holes and knots - just the way we like it. And the boys were very impressed with all the big cool tools!
Above is the planer and shaper they use to mill the planks.
We returned to find ~18" of water in a lake under the house. Were we nervous? Yep. Especially if one looked at the house from the road. . . it seemed to have a noticeable tilt to it.
But the water did float some interesting items to the surface. We found a couple of bottles, and one in particular tells a bit more about the age of the house. The bottle is from Beadleston and Woerz Brewery in New York, which brewed only between 1845 to 1910.
THis picture is from the alley and is showing water under the whole house and covering 3-4 railroad ties that the raisers are using to perch the house 13' in the air.
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