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Mon, May 18, 09 at 1:37
| 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? |
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| 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 |
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| 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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