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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.
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.
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.
We did a job in Scarborough last week.
Small world! That's south of me.
Yeah, fortunately I only have a couple of posts to shim or replace. I used a 20ton bottle jack, wood blocks and some steel plate the first time. The bottle jack barely did the job. I dug down about 1.5ft, laid down wood blocks, a steel plate, the jack, thick steel plate, more blocking. The more I jacked it, the deeper the blocks under the jack were driven into the ground. Seriously heavy. I need to pick up a 50 ton bottle jack for the next time - and something rugged with a bigger footprint for support. I have a couple of old antique house jacks and a crow bar, but they would probably suck to use in this application. So I have a plan on how to lift it, but nothing final on actually replacing the tilted/damaged supports. That area has sagged about 1" - 1.25", not too bad - yet.
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