Property floods easily- how costly is it to incline your home up? i know they have services where they jack up your home, and...
i know they have services where they jack up your home, and put supports and i believe concrete lower than it. i know it is costly but would anyone have any sort of range as to simply how costly?
my property is lower than the road and every summer storm season (in florida) the property floods some, and comes very close to coming in my house. contained by the past before i owned it, it flooded significantly- unbeknownst to me when i purchased. my lot is lowest surrounded by the area, so all ground dampen sort of flows to me.
Instead of jacking the house up, you can hire someone to excavate around the house and put on an elestomeric membrane which seal the foundation or footing from water. This will keep dampen from penetrating the foundation. While they are down there they can check out the weeping tile too. Is it on a slab? It might not even be possible (or practicable, rather).
It would be more than $15,000.
When my b/f be looking at homes he found one he liked but it had a crack surrounded by the foundation, just to raise up that corner of the house and put a pin surrounded by the ground was going to be $15,000 and that included water-proofing the basement.
To jack up the entire house and make the addition of support would be at least double, and the fact that you're contained by FL, maybe a lot more.
Answers: Hire a house mover for a weekend- moonlighting. Have them jack it up an inch or less (5K plus or minus) . Cut all the plumbing scrupulously and plug them-add risers later. Start cranking the house up with a bunch of buddies and a transit plane (absolutely no beers on the premises). Go as high as the Mover allows you, then follow the plans of a structural cook up for the new footing- demolish the old concrete footing near a 1 day jack hammer rental and form up to the existing mud sill. That's roughly speaking it, mostly very grunty work, hire some illegals, hell, everyone else does. If you can't do it for under ten elegant you didn't organize it well plenty. P.S. make sure its' not gonna rain- that's a complicator and a half.
it would cost a lot.