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And, and it's a protected lumber, number one it's treated and number two it's wrapped in <br />aluminum and I don't see how that is taking pretty good measure to prevent that from <br />rotting. <br />Tim: Has the foundation, let me say this, do we have an anti erosion issue here? Is there <br />more ground than there was when the house was built and is it concealing the brick <br />foundation? So, I know that in the rear of the house there were negative grade issues and <br />you were going to try to re -grade it so that the water would not infiltrate back into the <br />crawl space and foundation. <br />Rom: Right. Right. <br />Tim: Is that the same situation, though, on this northeast corner or north side of the <br />house to where if you re -address the ground so then you wouldn't have to add the frieze <br />board? <br />Rom: Well without digging into it further I would not know. I was coming at you with <br />this plan of attack hoping that it would resolve that entire issue. Then the only other <br />problem we could attack after that would be the negative grade of the land. You know <br />what I mean? <br />Tim: I'm just not sure, I guess in my mind, completely comfortable with the remedy that <br />you were talking about and I was trying to see if we could incorporate some of the other <br />landscape plans to see if you could solve it that way. <br />Rom: Well, my only concern with that is, is that from where the house sits I have the <br />alley way to contend with and I have the street to contend with; so to change the grade of <br />the land I would almost have to bring that up in order to slope it down and I can't change <br />the street and I can't change the alley. And if I dig down all I am doing is creating a huge <br />valley. Yes, I could make it slope down but it's only going to hit the alley way and only <br />hit the street, and then boom, then we have a puddle and I don't think... <br />Tim: And I don't think that you will ever be able to do any more than what was done <br />there originally, unless there's a lot of ground swelling, that's taking place. It just looked <br />higher than what was there originally. <br />Rom: And that's why I suggested cutting up into it and expose what was there because <br />like I had said when we were our there that I am, I am confident there is a few layers of <br />brick underneath that siding and, but I am not sure. But I think that if I can expose at <br />least six more inches of brick, we would be perfect then we don't have to add anything <br />there. Don't you agree? <br />Tim: Right. Less is more. <br />Rom: But if the case comes that; I cut into it and there aren't any more brick, then the <br />treated lumber wrapped in aluminum would be a sufficient fix for the problem. <br />R <br />