Walls and Ceilings - Nightmare wall/flooring issue
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chakan
10-25-05, 08:27 PM
Backround:
I'm doing some home repair on a recently purchased home built on a crawl space. I'm trying to level my floors and get my walls square and am having continu'ing problems. My question is 2 part, the house has settled in a way the the front is sitting on sandstone and hasnt moved, while the back has settled sig several inches making it very difficult to level because the back footer is lower then the front footer.
My first question is rather then renting expensive jacking systems to raise the footer for the back of the house, can i just jack up each joist that runs to the back walls, to pull up the exterior wall studs and floor joists off my cinderblocks and place shims between the joists and the blocks.
My second question is involing an inertior wall that orignally not load bearing(i believe it is carrying some load now because it is a crawl space w/settling). The wall is sitting ontop of my subfloor, the wall is vertical with the house, the subfloor is tongue and grove 1nch thick running horizontal. the wall has sunk causing it to pull the subfloor out of level running into and out of the wall. What ccan i do to address this?...is it safe to jack underneith the wall and use blocks and shims to hold it in place?
Thanks for any help anyone can provide.
I'm doing some home repair on a recently purchased home built on a crawl space. I'm trying to level my floors and get my walls square and am having continu'ing problems. My question is 2 part, the house has settled in a way the the front is sitting on sandstone and hasnt moved, while the back has settled sig several inches making it very difficult to level because the back footer is lower then the front footer.
My first question is rather then renting expensive jacking systems to raise the footer for the back of the house, can i just jack up each joist that runs to the back walls, to pull up the exterior wall studs and floor joists off my cinderblocks and place shims between the joists and the blocks.
My second question is involing an inertior wall that orignally not load bearing(i believe it is carrying some load now because it is a crawl space w/settling). The wall is sitting ontop of my subfloor, the wall is vertical with the house, the subfloor is tongue and grove 1nch thick running horizontal. the wall has sunk causing it to pull the subfloor out of level running into and out of the wall. What ccan i do to address this?...is it safe to jack underneith the wall and use blocks and shims to hold it in place?
Thanks for any help anyone can provide.
rdhamm
10-26-05, 10:16 AM
They use screws into the soil and use the bottom of the house to screw them in. When the house starts moving up, then they hit something solid.
I think one of the companies is called ramjack.
I don't know the cost.
If you are going to live there a long time, a long term fix may be necessary.
You can try to do it yourself, but what would you use to shim the house?
I have a home that sits on a crawl space. One of the first things that I did was use one of those rotating laser levels to see exactly how much and where my house was out of level.
Mark on the walls where the laser hits and measure from the plate down to the mark. Subtract the shortest distance from the longest.
At least you will know exactly how much you are dealing with.
I think one of the companies is called ramjack.
I don't know the cost.
If you are going to live there a long time, a long term fix may be necessary.
You can try to do it yourself, but what would you use to shim the house?
I have a home that sits on a crawl space. One of the first things that I did was use one of those rotating laser levels to see exactly how much and where my house was out of level.
Mark on the walls where the laser hits and measure from the plate down to the mark. Subtract the shortest distance from the longest.
At least you will know exactly how much you are dealing with.