View of the south basement looking are fireplace and chimney supports
HDC’s work at the Historic Gardner Homestead in Worthington continued with finding a contractor willing to remove about 4 feet of soil from the south basement. The intent was to double check if the foundation walls on that side of the house were as deep as the north basement and to eliminate a job that many contractors who looked at the building complained about. In the end,180 Demo removed the dirt and confirmed that the foundation walls only extended down about 3 feet. They left 12” of dirt around the foundation walls and removed the rest. Korda/Nemeth Engineering, our structural engineer, then designed structural underpinning to install walls under the brick and brace the taller wall. The project was recently featured in the Worthington Spotlight and also was part of the Worthington Stories podcast.
View of the south basement looking are fireplace and chimney supports