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Re: Annicita Leveling The House
The house is now 106 years old. I'm going to go out on a limb and say it was never properly maintained. We are on a steep hill, and when we first got here, there was a large stream of water going under the house any time it rained. We immediately built a deterrent and diverted the water to the sides of the house. We did some preliminary leveling, but it was a stopgap measure at best.
The roaring water undercut the support stacks, allowing the main "backbone" timbers under the house to sag and, in one case, break. Now we are going to build three new backbone boards that will be fifty feet long and four inches by six inches. These will be placed under the house. One on each side and one going down the middle.
We will need to build stacks of cement slabs that will be placed on ten-inch deep and eighteen inches wide (as big as a bushel basket) cement pads to keep them from sinking into the sand again. On the north end (by the street), the cement pad build-up will be about fifteen inches high. At the south end, we will have to build pads that will be roughly 32" tall. I will get some photos when we are doing it.
I figure it will cost me about $800 in cement, blocks, and tethers to make sure everything stays in place for the next fifty years. (Read my Vella and support my project! PLEASE!! LOL) Once we finish it this time, it won't be a problem again. It wasn't done right in 1918, and no one was smart enough to stop it when it could have been fixed at very little cost.
posted by
BigV
on February 15, 2023 at 1:23 PM
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What's causing the house to shift so you have to keep leveling it?
posted by
Annicita
on February 15, 2023 at 7:31 AM
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