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Anyone have information on fixing concrete piers of wooden house?

  • My fiance and I just bought a house in New Port Richey, Florida. It is a 1948 wood frame house. It is 962 sq. ft. We just had an inspector take a look at the underside of the house, and he says, quote, "Many (concrete piers) are not level, not centered, and not properly shimmed. All raised floors have a mild to severe slope." I also have pictures that the inspector took under the house for anyone who is interested. My fiance and I are wanting to get this fixed before we move in, so we are basically ready to hire the right person/people. Please, if you know ANYONE who may be able to give us a reliable estimate on how much it would cost, or even if you do this kind of work, please let us know. THANKS!!! :)

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    It's doable, you just go under the house with a 10 ton jack ( sounds big but it's only about twice the size of a car jack) and jack up the framing and shim the posts until the house levels out, however be advised that this will likely lead to many other problems such as cracked drywall board, sqeaky floors, maybe broken windows etc. The house has settled ( albeit badly) to the present position you may want to walk around the house and decide how important it is to you to have it leveled. After all it is a 60 plus yr old house. Most renovators who would make a 60 yr old house seem new again would gut it first and rebuild keeping only the unique parts as is.

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I agree. These sounds like things an inspector would point out, but it's probably been like this a long time. Are the shims rotted? Is the ground wet? Those are conditions that would make me more concerned here. Otherwise, you may choose to live with this problem. Old houses never seem to be perfectly level, and you often don't want to make them so, either, because as stated above, you can bring on other problems. That all said, he's right. One guy goes underneath with a jack and a hammer and some shims and blocks of wood, and another guy stays in the house with a 6' level, and tells the guy underneath how far to come up. It's a dirty job for the underneath guy, and kind of an art-form, I think, too. When I used to adjust mobile homes like this, it was all pretty much about making sure the doors opened and shut right, and the cabinets worked right and everything lined up. Level is a goal, sure, but these other things are more important.

Don

sounds to me like your new home has character!

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