How to jack a house up

A guide to leveling your house Is the lower floor in your house starting to sag? Houses naturally settle over time, but luckily, they can be leveled. This simple guide will give you an overview of how to level your house plus safety tips...

Cost, Time, and Skills: This job took two people one afternoon. We got muddy because we were in a dirt crawlspace doing just that, crawling. We used 18,000-pound screw jacks, 4×4 lumber, a cir…

Q: I have a separate garage, which is 34 ft. long by 32 ft. wide, with 2x6 walls. Part of its stepped concrete-block foundation was built on filled land. The east…

The original blueprints of your home aren't just a cool thing to have. They're required for many types of building projects. Here's how to find yours.

What is the best 20 ton jack? The cheap one(s) you own to help you with your house foundation repairs, car repairs and/or whatever else needs more than a little heavy lifting. Recommendations and tips for using a 20 ton jack on your house.

Just wanted to share - in case you've got a structure sitting on the ground and rotting out, all hope is not lost. Recently jacked up an 8x12 shed and re-built an 8x12 addition attached to it. Loved spending some time in mid-Maine.

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Help......... I purchased my grandmother's home and the old wood siding was yucky so we decided to pull it off and insulate and add sheathing and vinyl...

Greetings, I’ve been lurking around here for sometime, so i thought I would contribute. Did a search to see if anybody built there own wall jacks. Found a lot of people […]

A severely, cracked or sagging floor joist can get worse over time, causing the floor above it to slope & become unleveled leading to...