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Pier & Beam Foundation Repair
Posted on 6/9/16 at 3:05 pm
Posted on 6/9/16 at 3:05 pm
Bought an older house on pier and beams. Completely remodeled the whole house. Over the last few months with all of the rain, i guess the house is settling more and I've noticed doors sticking, sheet rock cracking, etc. Looks like i will need someone to come out and see what the issue is before all of my work is for nothing. Anyone here have an experience with Cable Lock, WCK, or any others? TIA
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Posted on 6/9/16 at 3:11 pm to FishinTygah84
Step 1) you need to make sure water is flowing away from the home and not under it. Gutters, proper drainage etc. That could be enough to get it to stabalize, if not you can level. You can shim for a couple of grand or if the piers are deterorating, you can lift home, pour concrete and install new piers as needed. This is $$$$. The more leveling that is done the more painting is needed.
Posted on 6/9/16 at 3:16 pm to wickowick
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Step 1) you need to make sure water is flowing away from the home and not under it. Gutters, proper drainage etc. That could be enough to get it to stabalize, if not you can level. You can shim for a couple of grand or if the piers are deterorating, you can lift home, pour concrete and install new piers as needed. This is $$$$. The more leveling that is done the more painting is needed.
yep
Posted on 6/9/16 at 3:37 pm to FishinTygah84
Think of it like this, if you took a metal pan filled it with mud and let it completely dry and tried to push your fingers into the dried mud, they would not sink in, but if you add a lot of water and make mud again they will sink. Under a home some places stay wet longer and sink faster and other areas stay dryiwr and sink slower. If everything sank at the same rate that would be ok also but when some sink faster than others it creates bigger problems
Posted on 6/9/16 at 3:49 pm to FishinTygah84
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Bought an older house on pier and beams. Completely remodeled the whole house.
Did you remove any vegetation (trees or shrubs) from around the house as part of the "remodeling"? Or was there possibly any removed just prior to you purchasing?
Posted on 6/9/16 at 5:35 pm to Boudreaux35
Not any that would alter the state of the foundation. I think it has to do with water somehow getting under the home. I put 32 yards of clay/dirt mix under the house myself one 5 gallon bucket at a time. Filled it up, army crawled under the house, dumped it, crawled back out, repeat. It has been fine like that for a couple of years but just in the last few months, something has happened. I have cable lock coming monday and wck coming wednesday.
Posted on 6/9/16 at 5:54 pm to FishinTygah84
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I put 32 yards of clay/dirt mix under the house myself one 5 gallon bucket at a time. Filled it up, army crawled under the house, dumped it, crawled back out, repeat
Damn dude.
Posted on 6/9/16 at 5:59 pm to FishinTygah84
There has been a ton of rain in the past couple of months. My projections:aAt least one of those foundation guys is going to want to jack the home, pour a slab and put new piers for $60k+.
Posted on 6/9/16 at 7:04 pm to wickowick
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My projections:aAt least one of those foundation guys is going to want to jack the home, pour a slab and put new piers for $60k+.
Shysters!
Posted on 6/9/16 at 7:50 pm to FishinTygah84
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. I put 32 yards of clay/dirt mix under the house myself one 5 gallon bucket at a time.
what the frick
you're a man among men
Posted on 6/9/16 at 8:33 pm to FishinTygah84
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I put 32 yards of clay/dirt mix under the house myself one 5 gallon bucket at a time
That's nearly 1,300 buck loads. You're name wouldn't happen to be Andy Dufresne, would it?
Posted on 6/9/16 at 8:33 pm to FishinTygah84
Jeezum Petes! 32 cuyds @ 5 gal per trip? That's ~1300 bucketfuls, if the bucket was completely full each time. You're a better man than me!
Please tell me you had teenagers involved to form a bucket brigade/Mexican dragline. Hopefully, the piles of fill were right next to the house!
Please tell me you had teenagers involved to form a bucket brigade/Mexican dragline. Hopefully, the piles of fill were right next to the house!
Posted on 6/9/16 at 8:47 pm to FishinTygah84
Used to live in a 1940s pier and beam house. Had settling issues. Thought about fixing prior to selling the house. Called a couple folks. WCK was the cheapest by far. I think for my issue it was gonna be about $3500. They tried to find a practical solution that wouldn't cost an arm and a leg. Get them to come give you a free estimate. I ended up not needing to repair, as someone bought the house as was, but I would have hired them.
Posted on 6/10/16 at 5:24 am to FishinTygah84
I've used WCK for my house - they did the work in two days because of rain otherwise they could've knocked it out in a day. I didn't realize how unstable my foundation was until they finished leveling everything. Now my house is rock solid. You will want to keep in mind their work will likely create some drywall cracks and door tightness if anything was installed/adjusted to fit any house slope as my old place was. You'll also be looking at needing gutters if it's a drainage issue. Call WCK for sure!
Posted on 6/10/16 at 3:29 pm to Barf
Dude it sucked for sure. I was solo. Im in my late twenties so it wasn't too bad. Took me a day and a half. It was basically 3 six foot piles of dirt. i had them dump them as close to the house as possible. It definitely wasn't the most efficient way to do it, but oddly enough none of my buddies were available to help that weekend.
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