Recent content by mrmarbles

I'll definitely post updates some updates! For replacing the columns one by one, I'm assuming I will just buy a cement mixer rather than a truck. do you think, for the temporary solution, that drilling 7 inches into the old cement footings (which some of my jack posts are currently just...

slownsteady, the previous owners dug into the hill, and then build the house's rear supports right against the wall of exposed earth created from the dig ... then built a retaining wall that was attached to the building's supports, with earth pressing against the retaining wall. that decision...

Inspector, that looks like a good, easy enough, and relatively inexpensive solution. I can see that diagonal bracing is much easier to implement with wooden posts like that. Since my place is only 24 feet wide, I wonder if 9 wooden posts of treated 6x6s would do the job, or if I should put in 2...

You guys are good people, I'm glad I found this forum. About the hill... I think that if it weren't for the pressure that had pushed the house from behind, the cement columns would still be straight. The land in the front hasn't moved, and I don't think the columns under ground have moved. It's...

Thanks so much for all the input! I'm located in Quebec, where we get a lot of snow and very cold winters. I hadn't considered the possibility that frost could lift the cribs! Do you think that would happen? If so, at the very least, I should probably not make them too tight, based on this...

so, my newly acquired 22x24ft cabin was built on 9 columns of cinder blocks, they go 4 ft into the ground and are filled with cement and rebar, but they're leaning forward (there was a wall of earth pushing the place from behind, which i've since dug back). I think in the spring I will replace...