Lifting a House With Jacks - Episode #186

Thanks for letting us all see how this is done!

i like the fellas having a good time at work.@2:22 makes me miss construction.

great video... although you never detailed how the foundation was extended? is it code to pour additional stem wall or did the company build a short wood wall? or did you just add sill plates to ad to the height of the new basement? Im in a similar scenario and would like to know how you extended the foundation to reach the desired height. Appreciate your work and what a beautiful house!

I live the Pacific Northwest and our houses over here are either sinking from all the rain water or they are small houses. People like to buy up all the small properties and either raise them or add square footage. I am contemplating on lifting and adding a lower level due to the cost of only around 10K plus framing vs adding a whole new extension of around 100K including foundations and all. Cost savings maybe around 40K.

I am s specially contractor that does foundation repairs & structural repairs and the total cost to do this has to much much higher than 6K. There would be addition costs to: Extending chimney height, repairing roof around chimney, new flashing. Framing, sub floor and finish flooring around the chimney. Raising things like exterior porches, door stoops, steps etc. Adding to the foundation or building framed filler walls that would require adding more exterior siding and insulation. Septic line, water lines and duct work extensions. Replacing or extending any permanent basemen columns. New basement windows. I’m sure there are still a few things I missed. His price must only be for shoring the basement walls and raising the structure, and 6K sounds a bit low to do that. Also, extending the basement wall will create a horizontal joint or seam, the basements walls may require several interior vertical steel columns from the basement floor to the floor framing to prevent the walls from buckling at that joint.

DUDE HAS HIS HAT ON ALL FUCKED UP LMAO

What if your re leveling the house? You don't have to disconnect the chimney right?

Would do this work in Georgia Atlanta

Hi, we seen this video, & need your help. Please contact us. It's for a Lift. A 900sq ft Bungalow, fairly light & small. We were victims of Sandy. We just moved back in the home, but we can find temporary relocation, no problem. Any Architect interested?? My neighbor already did it with Jacks. He bought 60 12-Ton Jacks. But only used 30. He said we can borrow they free. There new. He did it alone in 4 days, & he's 76 years old. He said costed less than $3K , etc.

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How jack house with out floor joist We pour footer and wall on 1/2 of the house . We put 3 piers in the middle of house. But all floor joints is rotten so do jack from top of the house or how

I've gotta ask -- where you earth do you get jack stands that large? I can't find them anywhere.

how does the sill get severed from the foundation? aren't there bolts holding the sills to the foundation? perhaps just running a sawzall to each?

We raised our house 6' in the early 70s. A 4' crawl space became a full basement and doubled the usable space. We had to climb up/down a ladder until my mother built stairs and the toilet pipe under the house was connected by an auto tire inner tube while the lifting took place.

What kind of waivers do the lifters make you sign? $6K doesn't sound like a lot for what potentially can go wrong. I'm certain there are a lot more expenses associated before and after the lifting.

What are those jacks called? Looking to buy some but don't know what to search for. Thanks

Hey jeff

Wondering how much money it costs to do that.

That's great, but what about your load bearing points of the house? Just add accommodatingly to the load bearing walls?

Where do you buy these jacks?