{"id":131,"date":"2016-03-21T23:43:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T23:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/?p=131"},"modified":"2016-05-11T01:10:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T01:10:37","slug":"more-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/21\/more-history\/","title":{"rendered":"More history &#8211; sketchy foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In order to <a href=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/21\/moving-the-palms-day-2\/\">dig one of the trenches around the palms<\/a>, the tree company had to move some of the old building foundation out of the way.\u00a0 Turns out the skirt foundation wall wasn&#8217;t very impressive.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-132\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4484-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4484\" width=\"730\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4484-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4484-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4484-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s just three inches into the soil and absolutely no steel reinforcement in the concrete.\u00a0 compare that to the foundation around the old brick patio we demolished.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-133\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4490-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4490\" width=\"730\" height=\"973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4490-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4490-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yup.\u00a0 The brick patio had a better foundation wall than the house did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to dig one of the trenches around the palms, the tree company had to move some of the old building foundation out of the way.\u00a0 Turns out the skirt foundation wall wasn&#8217;t very impressive. 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