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A house raised and held on box cribs during foundation work. House raising (also called house lifting, house jacking, barn jacking, building jacking) is the process of separating a building from its foundation and temporarily raising it with hydraulic screw jacks.
The work is set to cost about $250,000, which not only includes the work and materials but also the testing of each load of cement for pyrrhotite
Eric Thomas assesses the damage to his two-story Kaler Avenue home after a reported tornado hit the city of Bucyrus on Wednesday. His house was lifted off of its foundation, and is unlivable, he said.
In civil engineering, concrete leveling is a procedure that attempts to correct an uneven concrete surface by altering the foundation that the surface sits upon. It is a cheaper alternative to having replacement concrete poured and is commonly performed at small businesses and private homes as well as at factories, warehouses, airports and on roads, highways and other infrastructure.
Lift slab construction (also called the Youtz-Slick Method) is a method of constructing concrete buildings by casting the floor or roof slab on top of the previous slab and then raising (jacking) the slab up with hydraulic jacks. This method of construction allows for a large portion of the work to be completed at ground level, negating the ...
In that neighborhood, mud flows pushed a house off its foundation around 2 a.m. Monday, said Travis Longcore, who lives a few houses down. “It was a big rumbling sound and then a boom,” he said.
In January 1858, the first masonry building in Chicago to be thus raised—a four-story, 70-foot-long (21 m), 750-ton (680 metric tons) brick structure situated at the north-east corner of Randolph Street and Dearborn Street—was lifted on two hundred jackscrews to its new grade, which was 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) higher than the old one, “without the slightest injury to the building.” [9 ...
The home, in Rodanthe on Hatteras Island, is seen getting knocked off of its wooden foundation by waves along the shore. A loud crash can be heard in the video as the home falls into the ocean and ...