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and this post, raising the timber house
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Raising the timber house
Raising the timber house
Dear readers
this post is the continuation of our last post, house renovating, so let us see
what is involved and who does these sort of work, because raising the house and re-stumping need to be done by experts.
These firms
that raise the houses and also move them have a lot of heavy equipment, in our
case that we have only to raise the house and re-stump it, and later on enclose
it to make a few more rooms, and also a second bathroom and laundry, they are
not going to use the big lorries to take the house away, but still there is a
lot of work to do. In this hub we are going to follow the works in progress the
best way we could, just to show you how this could be done easily, as long as
the right people with the know-how and the right equipment are employed.
Anyhow the
house remover team has come to do the work; they start by reinforcing the house
with steel beams attached to the timer bears of the house. Then they make two
rows of these piles made from squares block of timber as shown in the picture
beside here, they place across these square timber piles or columns two long
steel beams one on each side right through the house, they put these big jacks
under this steel beams three or four of them on each side depending how long is
the house is and they start working the jacks up. They work as a team and they
all pump the Jacks up all at the same time, first on one side of the house and
then on the other side of the house.
Once the house
is raised to a certain level, they pack more timber on these square timber
piles and work a way how to move the jacks to a higher level, once they have
done that they start pumping the jacks up again, they will repeat this
operation several times until the required eighth of the house is reached.
Now that I have
told you all that, it does not sound that hard to do it, but in reality it is,
because there is no room for mistakes, as a single mistake may put in endanger
the workers that carry out this dangerous and hard job, because they are under
the house while they are raising it. Also to do it, whoever does it needs a lot
of material, see the large piles of timer columns made up from these large
pieces of timber, they have to carry it around from job to job, not only that
but also the large steel beams that they place under the house, so that they
can use the jacks to lift the house, and all those jacks and other things.
Anyhow the team that raises the house has successfully raised the house to the
right level, and checked that the house is level, so now a different job needs
to be done, to replace the stumps with steel columns, and then there are a lot
of other things to do as well.
Now that they
have reached the stage to restump the house with steel columns, sometimes are
the same people that continue to do this job and sometime another team might be
required depending how this firm or builder works, and we will explain here
under, what usually would happen.
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Earth work and steel columns
In this case
under this house all the timber stumps had to be removed, and also, there was
an old concrete floor that had to be completely removed and taken away, then
the foundations for the steel stumps were dug, after that the steel stumps were
fixed to the timber bears and the concrete poured after making sure that the
building was level and at the right level. While the concrete is setting and
becoming stronger as the time goes by, a steel worker is making these steel
braces in a few places, as it is shown on the plan, these braces attach two
columns one to the other, one end of the brace is attached near the bottom of
one column and the other end at the top of the other column, a second brace is
placed in the opposite way, so that the braces form like an X, this bracing
makes the two columns very strong, because it transfer the strength of the
concrete foundation of this column to the top of next column, in a lineal way.
After a day or
two when the concrete foundations become strong enough to take the weight of
the house and also the stress of any movement of the house above; the house
remover will come back to remove their jacks, their steel beams and their piles
of timber, then the house will be fully on the new steel columns.
Once the house
remover team has taken away all their heavy equipment, the builder will come in
and start by digging the rest of the foundations and concreting them as
required; and then they work out of to lay a concrete slab under the house, of
course this is a very short description of all the works required.
Anyhow this
post seems that is becoming too long, so see you in our next post, where we
will try to describe what could happen next.
See you soon.
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Raising the house
IS TO BE CONTINUED;
Next time with, more works on this house
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