Project Basement - Level in Ballard

This is the week where the house will become more level than it has been in many, many years.

For those of you who have been in the basement, you've seen "the beam" - the cracked & sagging and generally dangerous beam that bookends the chimney and is generally in the center of the house. This is the new one. This isn't cracked or sagging or dangerous (although it's toe-nailed in at this point so it's not holding up much of anything). You can see where it butts up against the old (and very intact) beam in the upper-right corner where light brown turns to white.

Ignore the copper piping in the picture as it's definitely not going to be popping out anywhere near where it currently is.