crawlspace: from the bottom up, indeed

Here's how it begins—at the bottom, or rather the foundation. If you hadn't heard, and most haven't, we bought a house. More specifically, we bought the house that some of us already called home. One of the contingencies of the sale was the immediate treatment of what our lender referred to as "issues" in the Pest and Dry-rot Report authored by our gregarious home inspector Toby Deming. Toby spent the afternoon here back in August having a look around as it were. His report was pages long and despite his recommendation that we focus first on the bathroom, the lender was concerned with the crawlspace. Any assurance of footing and safety in general whilst bathing was to take second priority to the repair of our foundation. So I'll spend the next week crawling around in this space, resetting the piers, girders and an occasional joist and generally tidying up. It's going to be dirty.