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Posted on 8/16/23 at 1:54 pm to 777Tiger
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thought you were a builder
Evaluate, irrigate, saturate.
Posted on 8/16/23 at 1:56 pm to stout
You should know better. Now, slowly reintroduce water back using soaker hose intervals.
Posted on 8/16/23 at 1:59 pm to Sao
I use that crack between the dirt and slab to pour termite poison into.
Posted on 8/16/23 at 2:02 pm to stout
Thanks for the heads up. Curious, do you have flower beds around your foundation that you water regularly (like every other day or so)?
Posted on 8/16/23 at 2:04 pm to stout
I noticed this too yesterday as I was rushing to mow the lawn before the heavens opened up last night.
From 7 to 10 p.m. it was a light show and a good soaking rain from the front. But my Houma brothers got left out of the rain.
From 7 to 10 p.m. it was a light show and a good soaking rain from the front. But my Houma brothers got left out of the rain.
Posted on 8/16/23 at 2:07 pm to stout
Today is the first day it hasn't rained here in the last week and a half. I'm actually fighting the opposite issue, neighbors down spout pools water on my house's corner so I need to look into a French drain or a drain box to get water away from the foundation lol.
Posted on 8/16/23 at 2:19 pm to stout
Also need to watch for clogs in your drainfield pipe forming. It is so dry the roots of trees/plants will make it's way into the pipe and clog it up.
Posted on 8/16/23 at 2:22 pm to stout
It is really bad in San Antonio.
Posted on 8/16/23 at 2:32 pm to stout
I just put my hose pipe along side of my driveway and slab this weekend
Posted on 8/16/23 at 2:35 pm to stout
I'm on pier and beam in BR, and i have this problem every time there is a significant drought. Just last week I noticed a lengthy crack in a potion of my brick that wraps from the back of my house to the side. I really should be running a soaker hose around the chain wall.
Posted on 8/16/23 at 2:49 pm to stout
Glad I rent.
Posted on 8/16/23 at 3:14 pm to LSUfanNkaty
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Thanks for the heads up. Curious, do you have flower beds around your foundation that you water regularly (like every other day or so)?
Just the front of the house. The crack in the soil was on a back corner I haven't landscaped yet
Posted on 8/16/23 at 3:23 pm to Cosmo
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I run whole yard sprinklers for 30 minutes every day
No issues here
I think I am going to install sprinklers next spring
Posted on 8/16/23 at 3:57 pm to DakIsNoLB
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Is that legal? Irrigate your yard from a publicly owned unmetered water source?
Posted on 8/16/23 at 4:02 pm to stout
quote:I didn’t know you owned Allied Foundation, baw.
stout
Posted on 8/16/23 at 4:34 pm to stout
Y'all ain't got $250 water bills from watering so much?
Posted on 8/16/23 at 4:48 pm to 4WHLN
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we noticed a lot of busted water line claims during another drought like this. It was busted lines under the slab of the home and I saw a ton of them.
Can you offer anymore info on this? Was there a determining cause?
The water table under the home is part of the support. As that water becomes less it leaves voids in the soil. The weight of the home compresses this. Hence, the house settles.
I built quite a few homes in the 80s and 90s. No settlement issues. Then there was a drought, water table dropped and homes that had been perfectly fine for 5, 10 and 15 years began to have cosmetic cracks in the brick veneer and / or ceramic tile floors.
Sidenote: None of this settlement was a "structural defect." All purely aesthetic.
Sidenote #2: We began using a synthetic base under tile floors … which had more elasticity. The hairline crack in the slab wouldn't telegraph through the tile.
Sidenote #3: All homes in S. Louisiana settle to some degree. A drought not withstanding most of the settlement takes place in the first 36 months.
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