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1. Re: Sinking cottage (score: 1): Author: Randall <randallyoung@earthlink.net>; Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 23:24:16 -0700; There was a segment on Hometime (or one of those programs) a few years back about having concrete pumped in below a slab (or part of a slab) to correct such problems. ISTR they showed an attached gar; /html/shop-talk/2001-10/msg00000.html (7,744 bytes)
2. Re: Sinking cottage (score: 1): Author: Donald H Locker <dhl@chelseamsl.com>; Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 07:22:58 -0400 (EDT); Sounds like the soil is not strong enough to support the load. The proper solution would be to trench down far enough to reach a strong enough substrate, pour footings to support the structure, and; /html/shop-talk/2001-10/msg00002.html (8,487 bytes)
3. Re: Sinking cottage (score: 1): Author: David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com>; Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 07:35:32 -0500 (CDT); The professional solution are some sort of pier. Basically, they drill a hole in the slab, and force a steel pipe down into the ground, attaching it to a plate on the slab. There's a similiar techniq; /html/shop-talk/2001-10/msg00003.html (8,513 bytes)
4. RE: Sinking cottage (score: 1): Author: "Landaiche Kenneth (NET-BBS/Petaluma)" <ken.landaiche@nokia.com>; Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 09:53:21 -0700; Why is it sinking? My 1928 house appears to be sinking as well. But it is really that the sandy soil around it creeps slowly down hill, like a decades-long avalanche. It amounts to the same thing, th; /html/shop-talk/2001-10/msg00005.html (8,804 bytes)
5. Re: Sinking cottage (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 17:13:09 -0400; My dad did this when I was younger, so I might be a little short on details. However, our cottage had this problem in a way, it wasn't sinking but it was balanced on very flimsy stacks of rocks, and; /html/shop-talk/2001-10/msg00007.html (8,736 bytes)
6. RE: Sinking cottage (score: 1): Author: "Landaiche Kenneth (NET-BBS/Petaluma)" <ken.landaiche@nokia.com>; Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 15:34:32 -0700; Professional house lifters have lots of hydraulic hoses and jacks. From one location at the truck, they can lift a house using quite a few jacks. I still wonder about the rigidity, though. The slab f; /html/shop-talk/2001-10/msg00008.html (7,921 bytes)
7. Re: Sinking cottage (score: 1): Author: Brian Kennedy <kennedybc@mediaone.net>; Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 22:26:18 +0100; Brian C. Kennedy Email kennedybc@mediaone.net It's sitting next to a lake with the water table about 2 feet down. My cottage is also sitting on a slab and sinking, about 6" in 60 years. The new hous; /html/shop-talk/2001-10/msg00009.html (10,449 bytes)
8. Re: Sinking cottage (score: 1): Author: epetrevich@relavis.com; Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 09:05:28 -0400; Well, if it's the "cheap way" he is going, (I'm good at "cheap") 8>), and I don't know if this will work, but... How about if he got some REAL long I=beams. Then he slid them under the house. (I'm co; /html/shop-talk/2001-10/msg00010.html (10,852 bytes)
9. Sinking cottage (score: 1): Author: Brian Kennedy <kennedybc@mediaone.net>; Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 22:31:17 +0100; My neighbor has a cottage on a slab that's been 'sinking' for the last 60 years or so. The slab is broken and they've used scraps of wood to provide a 'level' floor which is now above the sill plates; /html/shop-talk/2001-09/msg00238.html (6,737 bytes)

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