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This Can’t Be!
Q: What’s wrong with this picture?
A: Every house performs differently. The setting, the ground-type, the orientation… it all matters. And so does the era the house was built in, the choice of lumber that went into it, the carpenters who built it, and on and on.
It’s been said: You can take a house design, replicate it exactly just across the street, rotate it 90 degress, and it’ll behave differently. It will breathe differently, dry differently, warm and cool differently.
That’s why there are no hard and fast rules that apply to every house in every setting. Like people, every house is unique. And when you dig in and research and analyze a house, it deserves a fresh look and an open mind.
As for the photo and what’s wrong with it: That 4×4 is pressure treated, ground-contact rated lumber. It’s engineered to avoid doing exactly what it did, which is rot and crack and topple over. The posts on either side of it are fine… but this one – despite it’s intended design — was uniquely destined for failure.
