No foundation

14 years ago

Our house is a 1908 Sears kit built as a rooming house for the miners and railroad workers. It has a lot of history, quirks, ghosts and odd patch work, BUT no foundation. Well, there is a basement with crumbling rocks holding the house up (or sinking it into the ground). All the wiring and plumbing is original, so jacking the house up is gonna be a mess, any suggestions?

Comments (2)

ron6519
14 years ago
You have a rubble stone foundation that sounds like it needs work. Call in a few masons and get their opinion on what it needs.
Ron
brickeyee
14 years ago
A large house I owned in New Hampshire had a rubble foundation.

Just rough cut blocks of granite about 4-5 feet long, 12-18 inches high, and 12-18 inches thick.

It was not going anywhere despite the lack of mortar.
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