Kitchen/Bath Underbelly

The kitchen and bathroom windows are in, but we've taken the skirting off to do some maintenance underneath. This part of the house was once a porch and pantry and sits outside the main foundation of the home. The stilts on which this part sits rest on concrete blocks and closer inspection suggests that we will probably need to do some shoring up of the structure--perhaps another post or two and some poured concrete to stabilize the base. It's been our intention from the start to remove the skirting and then panel, side, and insulate this crawl space because otherwise the winter drafts blowing through it would suck the heat right through our kitchen and bathroom floors.

The shot on the left is the Northwest corner of the house. The shot on the right is the Northeast.

Here's what it looked like before we took the skirting and side-access door off.