Cripple Wall

   The time has come to start raising and leveling the greenhouse.  Because the yard is very uneven with a slope and plenty of tree roots, a cripple wall system is necessary.  Jeff has

decided to raise this front corner of the greenhouse about 18"...and it's level...for now!  That's a cripple wall under the corner of the frame of the greenhouse.   Each corner has to be raised and level independently...then the sides between them will be built to fit and leveled.
It's a time consuming procedure.  Here's Fanny 

inspecting the hydraulic
lift that Jeff's using to raise and stabilize the front of the greenhouse while he installs the cripple walls on the sides.  She likes the position of the greenhouse right now...

easier to get in and out for her, no jumping over 2x6's!  Her only complaint is that there isn't any standing water in the 'gutter' pipes!  And with this closed system, there won't be!
   Jeff  busy preparing

uprights for the next
cripple wall.  What's that old saying:  'measure twice, cut once?'  He's using new pressure
treated lumber for the bottom of each cripple wall with regular pine for
the tops and recycled pine for the uprights.  There's a recycled patio block under each corner, too.
There's a couple of days work left before we start to skin the house with plastic.  The 'floor' has to be leveled and covered with landscape fabric and mulch, too.  With a little luck the gutter pipe system should be up and running in a couple of weeks.