Comments on: House Foundation

By: Foundation work has begun | Bifurcated Carrots

Foundation work has begun | Bifurcated Carrots — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:57:48 +0000

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By: Patrick

Patrick — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 16:10:33 +0000

Thank you for the nice message Einar!

By: Einar Torwig

Einar Torwig — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:57:31 +0000

I have just been to your beautiful city and noticed the sagging houses more or less wherever one goes.
This must be a considerable problem andd very costly for the homeowner.Hope it turns out to your benefit.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:12:57 +0000

Hello Mr. G,

I hope you find a way to sort out your house too! I’m afraid I don’t have any advice. Not only am I not doing any of my own work myself, but I don’t know anything about it. Good luck!

By: Mr.Goggle

Mr.Goggle — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:18:14 +0000

I hope you get straightened out!

My house is 109 years old. The foundation seems to have been just a couple of rows of brick. Which is now gone, except for the front section. You will find random bricks here and there if you dig. if you take a close look you can see each side of the house has sunk. But the main issue is the kitchen floor which is slanted horribly. And I’m sure whatever is touching the ground is good and rotten and infested with termites. I’m not a rich man. Is there a cheap fix that would at least keep thinkgs from getting any worse?

By: Bifurcated Carrots » It’s Time for a New House Foundation

Bifurcated Carrots » It’s Time for a New House Foundation — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:41:17 +0000

[...] little more than two years ago now I posted about my house foundation. I wonder how many readers have been around that long and were paying enough attention to remember [...]

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 13:22:08 +0000

Some houses in the city are listed monuments, ours is not. On the plus side, it means we don’t need many permits to do work. On the down side, I don’t think we will get much financial help with this. We will certainly ask, and see what they say…

If Bush is looking for more oil from unstable places, he’s certainly welcome to have a look under our house!

By: Mike Malveaux

Mike Malveaux — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 09:28:09 +0000

Wow… sorry to hear your house is having issues. Surely there’s some kind of official assistance for dealing with problems of that magnitude. Maybe keep some life preservers handy, just in case. And scuba gear or something. Does Amsterdam have “historic districts” like the US?

Hey, did you hear Prez Shrub says the US is addicted to foreign oil from unstable regions of the world? The next day he said that oil companies are entitled to their profits, marketplace dynamics y’know…