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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My friend lived in an Ashley and did a major Reno that basically turned it into a colonial with 5 brs. [/quote]

Did they have to do major foundation work to create the full second level?[/quote]

In this area, I will speculate that any pop-up will require some foundation work. The marine soils that we have weren't as well understood 50 years ago, and IMHO all of foundations were underbuilt.[/quote]

My expectation is that you'd be able to add dormers without foundation work, but not pop up the roof. That makes expansions here hard. You could add dormers to make the two rooms upstairs more functional, but adding another bedroom gets tricky. Adding a two level addition behind the house would require significant foundation work even to the existing structure- you'd have to pop-up the roof to connect them. Adding another bedroom above the garage requires finding room for a hallway, which causes you to a lose a lot of usable space if you can't pop-up the roof.[/quote]

Did the garage foundation get upgraded?

1950s garage foundations were not engineered to support 3 floors of living space.[/quote]

For this addition? Absolutely.[/quote]

How do you know? Is there a link to a public document?
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Three out of the four exterior walls don't sit on the old foundation. The addition is bigger than what it replaced.

I don't know what they had to do on the side next to the original house.[/quote]

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