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re: Pier & Beam Foundation Repair
Posted on 6/9/16 at 3:31 pm to Cooter Davenport
Posted on 6/9/16 at 3:31 pm to Cooter Davenport
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They're actually ideal for it because the floor of the house sits a couple to a few feet above ground level and as such, it's a lot less likely to flood than a house on a slab.
I understand that, but did people actually build in flood zones before sprawl?
I don't think Older P&B would be in one. Like all of North Baton Rouge, North of Highland, etc..older areas...are not in flood zones. There were fewer people and plenty of "good" land to build a home, why anyone would have built one, and how would it have lasted Andrew, Gustav, Katrina...to be an "older P&B home"
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Posted on 6/9/16 at 3:32 pm to Cooter Davenport
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Kinda... the much bigger issue for pier and beam is a lot of water collecting or flowing under the house in heavy rains causing them to sink into the ooze.
This is primarily a southern issue, because there's no frost line at least in New Orleans. Where we work frost line is 42", so all piers are below that, which makes that concern moot.
I understand that's how they are built, I just don't know I would move into a pier and beam house where scour could either undermine the foundation or raise the water content so high it destroys any allowable bearing the soil has.
This post was edited on 6/9/16 at 3:35 pm
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