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Shortening cement piers in order to level house Will W 10-18-2007
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Posted by dpb on October 18, 2007, 3:09 pm
dpb wrote:
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> ...do recall a couple of articles in FHH ...

Sorry, that would be FHB...

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Posted by PeterD on October 18, 2007, 7:02 pm
wrote:


>The more I think about it, I might try digging down beneath them, and
>hopefully lower them a little.

Personally, I don't like that idea... If you were to do that, I'd say
rip the old ones out, dig new holes deeper and pour new (and larger?)
piers as appropriate. I don't think the piers would be stable if you
try to dig under then and drop them down.


Posted by dpb on October 18, 2007, 7:33 pm
PeterD wrote:
> wrote:
>
>
>> The more I think about it, I might try digging down beneath them, and
>> hopefully lower them a little.
>
> Personally, I don't like that idea... If you were to do that, I'd say
> rip the old ones out, dig new holes deeper and pour new (and larger?)
> piers as appropriate. I don't think the piers would be stable if you
> try to dig under then and drop them down.

As if they are now? :)

But the point is valid. There's no point whatsoever in stopgap measure
that I can see other than simply removing the tall one and putting in
the right sized one for the temporary. Rather than repeat, I'll
reference my other response.

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