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Originally Posted by stompem
top secret majic, do it all yourself on weekends? Few mates and such for occasion help? Awesome. I couldn't believe the pic of the underpin at the stairway footer, floor just hanging like a ceiling...yeeeks
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That's actually about a foot (12 inches) of concrete padding. The steel jack posts support the concrete pad, then above the pad were another set of steel jack posts (with 12 foot 12x12s') supported the second floor. Then the fallen footer was removed and the new 10 foot deep footer was dug. Check out the pic to see what was found underneath.
Once the new footer was dug, the new footer was set (with steel jack posts permantly set into the lower concrete footing) and framed and the new upper footer wall pored into frame. Once it was hardened and set we drilled holes into the concrete pad and pumped flowable fill concrete into the holes to fill the vacant area underneath the pad.
So the new footer supports the house, while the concrete pad supports only the lower section of the house.
Since our house was built in 1976 we cannot legally go back against the builder or seller for compensation. So we've had the to bear the cost ourselves.
10-20-2012, 03:49 PM
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