What kind of jack is needed to lift a wooden house

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And since the prices of construction companies for such services are high, many forum members undertake to lift a wooden house themselves. And if it is more or less clear to us how to lift a house with a jack if it is small and a summer house, then when we are talking not about a summer house, but about a large house for year-round living, difficulties begin.

Read on FORUMHOUSE how to lift a panel house with your physician data hands and what is needed to lift a panel house. See how a member of our portal leveled the corner of the house with a jack.

s uchhund:

– I raised a 6x6 m wooden frame house myself. The reason that forced me to take this step was the destruction of the old foundation and the desire to live “higher” from the ground, away from dampness.

The forum member's foundation was an unreinforced concrete strip 30 cm wide and 50 cm high. 20 cm of the strip was buried in the ground, the remaining strip, 30 cm thick, was above ground.

Due to the fact that the foundation was built with a violation of technology back in the 70s of the last century, it began to actively crumble. Having thought about how to raise the house and having drawn up a plan of work to modernize the foundation, the forum member first of all acquired a tool: inexpensive jacks for wooden houses (2 pieces), with a lifting capacity of 8 and 10 tons.

Before lifting a building, it is necessary to calculate its approximate weight and estimate the required force on the jack.

Then suchhund sawed wooden spacers from boards and timber of different lengths. The spacers are necessary so that as the structure is raised with jacks, they can be placed under the lower crowns until it reaches the required height. In total, the forum member sawed 100 spacers of different sizes.