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Can anyone comment on the risk of the stone foundation giving way when the the house is raised and its compressive pressure on the foundation is removed? Does it take a disaster of a stone foundation for this to happen or is it a common concern?

All good concerns. The good news is that the wood is in reasonably good shape. There is the normal amount of joist & beam checking, and the spots with real issues have been identified. A section of beam has been identified for partial replacement, but anything suspicious already has a post...

If you are talking about studs, you must have a pony wall above grade? I have 2' of brick above grade, the sills rest on the brick, and the floor joists notch into the sills. Sounds like you braced everything, which is something I'm mapping out in my mind right now. I have less framing in...

No posts to worry about (but plenty of other things.) The house is a bit of a hybrid - it's balloon framed, but all the floor joists are 3x6's that are either notched into the sills, mortised into the beams, or simply resting on the ledgers w/no notch or nail. This house would have been built...

Nealtw - how long did the raising take? Did you put low profile jacks on the foundation? I can't visualize how you transferred to entire load to the foundation. I was thinking of building cribbing and using needle/carrying beams. The house has a bump out addition on one side so I have 4...

Yes, slow will be the operative word. Do you think my idea about building up the sills with mortar and (in the higher spots) lumber? There will be some spots where the gap below the sills will be as much as 2" and other places that may taper off to nothing. Considering that my goal is to...

Thanks, InspectorD. The sills are sound and 6" tall all the way around the foundation - they are 2' above grade, and give a good "knock" when struck. I have verified the height of the foundation with a laser level and confirmed that it is stone settlement of one kind or another. The worst...

I have a 140 year old house with a mortared stone foundation - some walls are stone right up to the sills and some are stone below grade and brick above grade. One side of the house has settled 4" over the last century - we suspect undermining from roof runoff. (We plan to improve drainage...