I like the idea of finding exactly what is wrong before fixing things.
Can you check if the basement slab floor has a similar slope?
With a hammer if you tap the floor in the basement all over you will find if there are voids under, those areas sound different.
Is the foundation a block wall that has been stuccod or parged?
have you heard of the cable lock process? check out this video
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http://www.olshanfoundation.com/content/about-cable-lock-st-plus
on a slab house, its part of the foundation.
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That's likely the best to do to see what's going on.
Water can do a lot of dammage but making a foundation sink isn't usually one of them The footing under the foundation wasn't big enough for the soil condition under it. Today more would have been taken out and back filled with better material.
The brick on the house is a red flag for me as I have not enugh experience with that. From what I have seen The starter coarse is sitting on a lip in the foundation or and angle iron bolted to the foundation. So lifting the house off the foundation leaves a big question on what happens to the brick.
When this sagged it must have left cracks in the brick work, if all that has been repointed, that would stop the brick from moving back to where they belong.
The basement floor definitely has the same slope. Its carpeted, but I can feel it. Maybe this weekend I'll tear into the wall a little and see what the foundation looks like
I thought there was a question as to how the brick is attached to the foundation. the picture i posted address's that.
it sits on the foundation, and is also tied to the framing with brick ties.
in my opinion, you can not lift the framing with the brick tied to it.
you need to lift the whole thing, or risk pulling the brick ties loose
and having the wall fail
your point on the pointing of the bricks, and going back ti original position is spot on
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