Lot accomplished today - worked for about 14 hours. Started out by clearing some space in the basement and getting some plastic up to keep the dirt out of the rest of the basement. Then I moved outside and removed all the necessary siding.
Next was the jacking of the house, removal of the rotten posts, and temporary supports. This all went surprisingly well. I decided to pour the concrete in the post holes first and then add the footing tomorrow. This was a pretty tedious process of cleaning the concrete, applying a bonding agent (
Weldcrete) and getting the forms all set. After about fours hours of this, I finally had the concrete in the holes.
After that, I started drilling. I drilled four holes in the foundation, applied some
Simpson SET epoxy and put in some rebar. This will tie everything into the existing foundation. Tomorrow I'll string some rebar horizontally.
I finished off by nailing some OSB to the outside of the house to seal everything up for the night.
Pic 1: this is what was supporting my house.
Pic 2: First support.
Pic 3: Supported and forms in place.