Shifting house - shower ideas requested

[bbbass]

One day while at work I was talking to an engineer and he said for our neighborhood foundation piling need to go 18 feet deep to hit something solid. As he said the area was all at the bottom of a bay at one time, and that's were the gumbo soil/clay came from.

Where I grew up outside of Chicago everyone had a basement or crawl space. Our was a cider block build with no rebar or concrete inside the blocks. We had a crack around rte basement that was freeze line deep. It was eye opening how much the walls actually moved with the seasons. At least we didn't have radon gas in our basement.

Cider blocks..... yum!!

 

[MountainGirl]

I'm looking, but don't see your receipt of ownership of this thread.....lol When some yankee wants to come in and do a drive-by insult, it requires retort.......lol

You're right, I don't own the thread. I just started it to ask for help with something.
I got help, and good ideas, and I've already posted the outcome of the project - so if you want to crap all over the thread now, have a ball.

It's just too bad the rest of us had to see your garbage picture.
But I can make it go away easy enough, and you too.

Peace out.

 

[hornetguy]

To sort of answer @benenglish, pier and beam homes can be pretty easily adjusted... if the crawlspace has enough room to work. Take a couple of jacks down there, and jack up and shim the offending low area.
I like the idea of the built in jacks, but with my luck, after 20+ years under the house, when I needed to adjust them, they'd be rusted stuck...

 

[baboon]

Cider blocks..... yum!!

It was some of that affordable housing built after WWII. IIRC it cost less then $4K brand new.

 

[TexasRedneck]

You're right, I don't own the thread. I just started it to ask for help with something.
I got help, and good ideas, and I've already posted the outcome of the project - so if you want to crap all over the thread now, have a ball.

It's just too bad the rest of us had to see your garbage picture.
But I can make it go away easy enough, and you too.

Peace out.

Wow....really? My apologies - I didn't realize that you were that kind of person....but now I know - and won't worry about ever reading one of "your" threads again.

 

[MountainGirl]

Wow....really? My apologies - I didn't realize that you were that kind of person....but now I know - and won't worry about ever reading one of "your" threads again.

Thanks, but no apology necessary!

It's not a possessiveness "my thread" thing; there have been several good tangential exchanges in the thread, and I'm learning something from all of them.

It was getting flipped off by your pic, full width on a 24" screen no less, that prompted me to try a Barney Fife -

I know your intended target was BigRed... the rest of us just got the pleasure of seeing it too.

It's really no biggie...at least I hope not.
I just realized I called @Vaquero a turd.

 

[Vaquero]

I been called worse.

 

[MountainGirl]

It was some of that affordable housing built after WWII. IIRC it cost less then $4K brand new.

Somewhat like the houses you could order from Sears & Roebuck catalogue?

 

[MountainGirl]

I been called worse.

Whew! Thanks, boss.

 

[BigRed]

When some yankee

OUCH....THAT SMARTS!

Just because I currently live north of Texas does not mean I am a ******* yank!

 

[baboon]

Somewhat like the houses you could order from Sears & Roebuck catalogue?

This house was in the Chicagoland area, but not a Sears house. I think they sold more of those out of state.

 

[cycleguy2300]

Hey you turds, go fight somewhere else and quit messin up my thread.

@BigRed
@Vaquero
@cycleguy2300
@TexasRedneck

Only one name needed to be on there, the out of stater dissing on Texas.

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[cycleguy2300]

You're right, I don't own the thread. I just started it to ask for help with something.
I got help, and good ideas, and I've already posted the outcome of the project - so if you want to crap all over the thread now, have a ball.

It's just too bad the rest of us had to see your garbage picture.
But I can make it go away easy enough, and you too.

Peace out.

Thats not very nice

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[MountainGirl]

Only one name needed to be on there, the out of stater dissing on Texas.

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I didn't want anybody to feel left out.

Thats not very nice

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Very true. Sometimes I'm not.