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Posted by Math teacher on August 13, 2006, 12:05 pm
Can anyone tell me if you can continue to live in a house that needs
foundation repairs while the repairs are being done? Also, I realize
that this next answer depends on the extent of the problem, but do
repairs normally take days, weeks or months?
Thanks for any insight.
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Posted by Eigenvector on August 13, 2006, 12:12 pm
> Can anyone tell me if you can continue to live in a house that needs
> foundation repairs while the repairs are being done? Also, I realize
> that this next answer depends on the extent of the problem, but do
> repairs normally take days, weeks or months?
>
> Thanks for any insight.
>
Well as you indicated, it depends on the extent of the repairs.
That said, a buddy of mine needed to have one side of his house jacked up
18+ inches, he lived in it all through the repairs. He took it very slowly
and considering he is a mechanical engineer had sufficient knowledge to
apply extra bracing. The side of his house he jacked up was the side
containing his chimney, just to add another level of complexity to it.
All said it took him a year or so to repair the foundation, 6 months to jack
up the house and 6 months to complete the repairs. He took it slowly so as
to provide the house framing time to relax and reform to its new shape.
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Posted by tbasc@bellsouth.net on August 13, 2006, 1:34 pm
Math teacher wrote:
> Can anyone tell me if you can continue to live in a house that needs
> foundation repairs while the repairs are being done? Also, I realize
> that this next answer depends on the extent of the problem, but do
> repairs normally take days, weeks or months?
>
> Thanks for any insight.
Eigenvector has the right idea.
If the foundation repairs are extensive,
the utilities may have to be cut so house can be raised enough to do
the work.
If the repairs are minor, slow raising of parts of the house can allow
living in the house.
(This house has been raised in parts several times while we continued
lived in it.)
TB
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Posted by tbasc@bellsouth.net on August 13, 2006, 1:34 pm
Math teacher wrote:
> Can anyone tell me if you can continue to live in a house that needs
> foundation repairs while the repairs are being done? Also, I realize
> that this next answer depends on the extent of the problem, but do
> repairs normally take days, weeks or months?
>
> Thanks for any insight.
Eigenvector has the right idea.
If the foundation repairs are extensive,
the utilities may have to be cut so house can be raised enough to do
the work.
If the repairs are minor, slow raising of parts of the house can allow
living in the house.
(This house has been raised in parts several times while we continued
lived in it.)
TB
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Posted by J.A. Michel on August 13, 2006, 2:22 pm
Our house had a crawlspace, and we really wanted a basement under it.
Estimates for the housemover to jack up the house was over $11,000. That
did not include hooking/un-hooking any utilities OR any of the prep work,
which I was going to have to do myself. The basement would have cost
another $28,000 on top of that. Work would have taken a month or two to
complete. And yes, we were told that we could live in the house while the
work was being done.
In the end, we ended up building a new home with a basement. It was just
easier.
> Can anyone tell me if you can continue to live in a house that needs
> foundation repairs while the repairs are being done? Also, I realize
> that this next answer depends on the extent of the problem, but do
> repairs normally take days, weeks or months?
>
> Thanks for any insight.
>
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