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Citizen complaint of the day: Houses aren't supposed to lean like that, are they?
By adamg on Sun, 08/30/2015 - 7:32pm
A concerned citizen frets about his house on E. 8 Street in South Boston:
House is falling over more than ever before and now looks like it's causing house next door to sag.
H/t Trevor Maloney.
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I live in a house that leans
I live in a house that leans just as much if not more than that one, also in Southie. It was built around 1890 so over time it has settled, more on one side than the other! There are houses attached to both sides of ours so I guess you can say it's leaning on one of them. However, we have had our foundation checked at least 5 times (once each time we had an inspection due to a condo sale) and another specifically to look at the foundation just for our own sanity. There are no issues.
I can't say this is a similar circumstance but same neighborhood, buildings built around the same time, same conditions (weather, materials) etc. Not a bad idea to have someone check it out, but it's probably fine.
In other words
That's how we've always done it in Southie.
Where do you come from?
They do things in a superior fashion where you come from? Are conditions, geology, weather, socioeconomic, etc. the same as South Boston and Boston in general? You're an expert on how homes were, usually by necessity, constructed in the 19th century?
I'm from someplace where we
I'm from someplace where we read Universal Hub regularly. And occasionally get jokes.
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Look at it philosophically, It'll save ya tons of dough, not having to go to Italy
or
Blame it on the #11 Bay View buses
Or MIT:
Or MIT:
One on Western Ave in Cambridge too
It doesn't look as bad on the streetview image as it does in person but this one would make it easy to pick up the contents of a dropped box of marbles or ball bearings.
That photo is skewed so it's
That photo is skewed so it's hard to tell from it. There are a couple of other things going on there that might fool the eye too: the gutter is sloped slightly, as it should be, and the place on the right has a slight almost unnoticeable hip about half way up the third floor wall, which is hard to spot because of the continuity of the siding, but the dormers give it away.