House Leveling... yikes!

[ERASER5]

QUICK! Call Geraldo! He needs an exclusive! Him and his mustache want to know! (If I were joking, I would put a smilie here)

[Gumby]

Biggest myth about the myth is that they burried him, before anyone knew he was even missing Hoffa was being stock on store shelves as dog food.

[davischevy]

Originally Posted by Gumby

Biggest myth about the myth is that they burried him, before anyone knew he was even missing Hoffa was being stock on store shelves as dog food.

If you could prove that, I could make us a lot of money.

[Sub-versive]

Originally Posted by 67ChevyRedneck

You need to determine what actually sank. Is this a foundation with a crawl space and piers, or just all piers, etc?

Are these piers that are driven into the ground, or above ground (falling over... above ground?)

Did they sink because of the soil (is there concrete or gravel under the piers?) or did the pier material crush/rot (very old cinder blocks and wood?) Are they just sitting on the ground or are they on top of concrete poured bases? Gravel bases?

How bad unlevel is it? You can find a low spot, attach a string line, the pull a string line across to the high spot area, and with a string level, level it out, then you can see how much the low spot really dropped. An inch or so, maybe two depending on the length of the house, actually isn't too bad. Several inches is a lot.

Originally Posted by ERASER5

The bottle jacks he is referring to are just to lift for a few moments to set the piers back up or adjust the height. No bottle jack would be left AS a pier. I have set a couple of trailers. Go for the 20 tonner. Maybe two.

Bad foundation leads to bad results. 67 hit it. Why did the piers fail. A pier falling over is not giving me a warm fuzzy feeling. Flooding? Erosion? No concrete? Temporary fix is a temporary fix.

I personally have repaired pest and rot damaged beams. I own a few 30ton screw jacks for this. Use nothing less than a 20ton screwjack. DO NOT USE A BOTTLE JACK!!!! That would be a death wish.
You really need to figure out the reason for your post and beams failing.