[Leica] Garret Island House C. 1750-60

[Don Dory]

The are several other reasons for pier and beam construction.   The first
is cost,  aside from a dirt floor using bricks or stumps lets you level the
floor easily.  In the south it also keeps the moisture from the soil away
from your floor so the wood lists much longer.   To Sonny's point,  with a
ledge on top of your piers you can keep most rodents out of your house.
 You see this especially in Switzerland.

Last,  if your soil conditions are expansive clays you absolutely need to
allow for movement.  You can place footings several feet below grade to
where the soil moisture remains constant even in drought.  You can give
yourself enough room underneath with piers to periodically level your house
with jacks and shims.

If you look at older homes in the Mississippi delta you will see pyramidal
concrete piers under most homes: the better homes will have a skirt to hide
the piers.

On Wed, Jan 13, 2021, 9:47 PM Sonny Carter via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> One of the reasons for raised houses is to rise above the dust and heat of
> Southern Summers as well as keeping the varmints from walking or slithering
> through the door.
>
> Regards,
>
> Sonny
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> Natchitoches, Louisiana
> 1714
> Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase
>
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>
>
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 4:29 PM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
>
> > Cool Ric, but I see it isn't listed here
> >
> >
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_buildings_in_North_Carolina
> > so there's another job for you to do during lockdown :-)
> >
> > I was wondering about the blocks underneath too and whether it was built
> > on a flood plain. Couldn't find Garret Island on Google Maps though.
> >
> > Douglas
> >
> > On 13/01/2021 01:57, CartersXRd via LUG wrote:
> > > Oldest house in Washington County, near Plymouth NC.
> > >
> > > https://2021.cartersxrd.net/2021.01.12x.html
> > >
> > > Ric Carter
> > > www.home.CartersXRd.net
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