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[semperfiona]

So the workers have been at the house today removing the first floor bathroom. They got the wall partly torn out where we were planning to put the new tub, and find that while the joists holding up the first floor run east-west, the ones holding up the second floor run north-south. So they said, "That's weird!" and stopped working until the general contractor can come out with someone tomorrow and determine whether the wall we'd wanted to remove is a load-bearing wall.

His response when they called was reportedly disbelief. "No way, houses aren't built like that!"

We're just glad they stopped *before* the back of the house fell off.

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[lightning-rose.livejournal.com]

When was this house built?

[semperfiona]

Sometime between 1926 and 1934. :-)

[wyrd-sane.livejournal.com]

We're just glad they stopped *before* the back of the house fell off.

That's how you can tell the good workers from the bad workers. The good workers have enough sense to stop and ask for direction(s). "Fools rush in..." and all that.