It's hard to believe, but after 3 years of a sagging dining room floor and a speedbump in our living room, the work has begun to fix it! YIPPEE At the time of this posting, there is no longer any sag in our dining room, our dining room door (to the back deck) not only closes tight, but LOCKS (she says, gasping)! Whoo-hoo! It turns out that when our house was manufactured, many of the supports were not properly secured in (that makes a VERY long story short), so our contractor jacks up the house and makes those corrections, then removes the jacks. He is out of town for two weeks now . . . but that's a good thing, because we'll see how the house settles in the meantime, if at all. When he initially came out to give us a bid (and we had several), he could stand between the dining room and the living room and see that the back half of the house was sloping downwards (yes . . . downhill! . . . scary thought!!). He is 2/3 to 3/4 of the way through under the house, then he will patch and paint in the house where the cracks and spaces have occured due to this issue.
From every test, though, our Father in heaven wants us to learn something, even if it is just to rely more on him. Our insurance would not cover the cost of the repairs . . . and the company that manufactured our house is out of business . . . so we thought we would not be able to get it done. Low and behold we do our taxes, and due to my change in employment we have a refund coming (which rarely happens) . . . and it is almost to the dollar of the cost of the repairs. . . is God good, or what??!? He also brought us a kind, christian man to do the repairs . . . we used to go to church with him, and we see him at our church's campmeetings. As it turns out, he is EXTREMELY thorough, and a perfectionist . . . and we are blessed!
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