Little Doubting Thomas Scene 49

With only a minimum of care, his mother’s porch had remained as beautiful as the day it had been built. Thomas’s father, who had been extremely knowledgeable about construction techniques, had demanded from the contractor he had hired to build their house that steel I-beams be cut into piers and set permanently in deep steel-meshed reinforced concrete pad/piles that reached down to the dolomite bedrock five feet beneath the subsurface when the house was constructed. Then he had steel I-beams laid across the piers and were bolted together and arc-welded in place. As a consequence, the both the house and it’s porch were supported by a foundation which rested directly on a one-hundred foot thick layer of solid limestone bedrock and was totally impervious to termites or woodrot. Thomas’s father had built their home to last not for his generation, but for generations to come.