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Originally Posted by Bill Douglas
Good game plan.
I releveled my old cottage myself, with the above described foundations, and it came out really well (25 years later and still good). One corner of the house came up 75mm (that's about 3") and the house was fine in regard to doors closing and other levels. So it's worth doing yourself. I had three or four small bottle jacks. the sort you jack a car up with. The house weighs very little per square meter.
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There's a bit more to that but not much. Lifting a simple house described and underpinning foundation is more donkey work then anything else requiring little skill but a little understanding of how things work. That corner can be lifted with a big beam and two jacks over a pad. This way the concrete can be floated jsut right up to the bottom of the plates. Depending if his house has cripple walls and if its slab on grade. Different approach is needed.
About the same time I built the deck downstairs, I replaced the entire foundation on one side of the house. I bought it knowing it was sagging about 3". Price we all pay living on the hill side. Can't beat gravity. Its been straight and true ever since. I poured lots of concrete under there with much bigger footing suggested by my engineer. I took a few months off, did lot of the work myself, with a couple of my workmen. Had much more energy 15 years ago at 38. With second baby coming, wife doing some of the running around, a budget and too cheap to hire someone, it got done eventually.