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Steel beams coming tomorrow.

Steel beams coming tomorrow.

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Damn, I wish I had a lighthouse on top of my house!

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Just get a bunch of money and a friend high up in the Coast Guard in the 1980s.

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GSA is selling off a lot of property and lighthouses are included. Unfortunately, some of them cannot be modified into private housing even though they are decommissioned. They more or less want to sell to historical societies.

Missed out on a missed silo auction a few years back. Still kicking myself over that.

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I have a 30'x50' out building I'd like to move about 200ft - or at least lift and put new cement posts under it. Still undecided whether to move and attach it to the house or just improve the underpinning.

Do you guys use electronically controlled hydraulic pumps to lift buildings?

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Do you guys use electronically controlled hydraulic pumps to lift buildings?

Yes we do. We have a website. The company is called Atlantic Structural.

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On the Isle of Isleboro. I'm on the mainland down the coast 100+ miles, probably too far away to be a viable customer.

My dear departed dad built a 30x50 cabinet shop on his property in 1967. Super rugged wood floor designed to support heavy woodworking equipment and lumber, shiplap siding with batten strips, trussed roof. He made wood forms and poured large cement blocks with cement filled sauna tube posts (cut level with all the other tubes) for supports. Over the years frost has shifted a couple of the large blocks and a couple of the cement sauna tube posts are now tilted off at an angle. I jacked up a couple of locatins, shimmed and leveled the building. That was about 13 years ago, and it looks like I will need to do it again in the next few years - or find a better, more permanent solution.

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What you did sounds right for a homeowner. A more permanent solution might require renting equipment or hiring someone, but if your fix worked for 13 years, that seems like a decent investment of time.

We did a job in Scarborough last week.