If this is from your home inspection, run like hell, if this is your house and those plumbers where just there get an attorney the fix is on them and will be expensive, if this is a flip then it seems about right.
But seriously, does anyone have instructions on how to season logs to use? My great grandfather used to make and sell timber with the bark and made it in Seattle out of his lean-to where he lived off of the side of a school. I know some of his wood is still being used on houses near that school. We don’t know how he killed off and kept bugs out of the bark so well.
Seriously. It’s like this thread has never seen an old house before - this type of shit is literally everywhere. Houses are not fragile beings that collapse and fall apart the second one wrong thing is done. Especially old ones.
It’s cast iron so it’s probably ancient and has been fine like this for decades. That section probably holds relatively little load. But if you want to feel better, it’s cheap to bolster it and it costs nothing.
I’d be way more worried about shit buried out of sight in newer houses where they’re pinching every penny.
You’d want a new beam through that whole stretch. The original span has one, but that flat board over the new hole isn’t going to hold any weight. Also depends might need new footings for the new posts depending on the current state.
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u/mjh2901 5d ago
If this is from your home inspection, run like hell, if this is your house and those plumbers where just there get an attorney the fix is on them and will be expensive, if this is a flip then it seems about right.