The pile driving for our new foundation starts tomorrow. In the last few weeks they've been preparing by finishing the demolition of the old interior walls, putting up support structures like in the picture below and cutting holes in the concrete floor. I've posted before a number of times about this foundation repair that's been dragging out for years now. The picture below is another example in a series of skeletons in the closet the contractor found. In my last post I talked about the center load bearing wall that was listing, and this is the wall beyond that one. This wall is not only listing, but it's buckling too. You can see it has a definite concave shape with respect to the wooden supports. Since it's also an outer wall, it can't just be removed like the other load bearing wall, so after the foundation repair I will build a new wall in front of this one, and fill the space between the two walls with concrete, in order to harden the wall and provide enough support for the house. In
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