Foundation Leveling - From Start to Finish

[Music] hello and welcome to another video with average guy's garage well today the average guy has got to take care of his garage and she does a gap here in the sill he's been a crack in the foundation that's been ongoing for at least ten years one of the things you have to do if you want to save any of your ferns or plants is to dig those up and temporarily move them because they're going to be digging five piers along this side of the house here the length of the garage one on this corner and four along the side there and then they're going to drill into the concrete right here and put one underneath this part of the slab right here so you can see there's a couple of cracks in the foundation here so all of that and this one actually extends over to here this was the original line of the foundation for the garage I don't know whether or not they're poured with the house or separate from the house we'll just take a take a little look here at the what's happening this is a four-foot level and it's leaning to the left at the top if I pull it away to level it up it's about that much off in four feet at the top it's even more pronounced so it's about an inch right there and over on this side put this up here I start down here at the bottom this is where most of the subsidence is happening you can see that gap right there it's probably two inches it's twisting this board right here and it's pushing away on that fascia board all the way down so contracted out a company they're going to be here in about an hour and the best I hope for is that they will be able to stop the subsidence by putting those peers in the piers are going to go down six feet with a 18-foot cap on top 18 foot give me a break six feet down with 18 inch caps and then metal shims so they have all the hydraulic tools they're going to level it up and hopefully that will take care of the issue one problem was when the it started give his problems here on the inside I don't know it's too bright to tell but this the garage door vertical was was moved that same one to one and a half inches and made the garage door impossible to open so in order for the men to get their work done today I had to remove the garage doors individually those steel doors doesn't make it safe to to lift it up because you don't know it's gonna hold it you don't want that falling down on your head so that's it the garage door man supposed to be by later also to get this door fixed right so I'll take some videos during the process of the workers if they will allow me to here's a cutaway view and a view from the side of the piers they're going to put in you can see each of these is a six inch by 12 inch high concrete cylinder going down six feet then an 8 by 8 by 16 inch cap another cylinder and then steel shims here to level the foundation and hopefully going down that deep gets us down to some solid ground because almost every home built here in Southeast Texas it's built on sand and not on to the clay so this should get down to the clay they have got some holes dug under the foundation your gas line getting ready getting ready to jackhammer the hole here there's a cylinders back there 2010 hydraulics Oh lift it up probably two inches on that side and then let it back down of cool pretty cool that must be forced thank you there's the concrete chopped up for the front part now they got some of the cylinders down and then they've got the square block a little bit two cylinders on top of that cool they put that block there so they can put a jack on one side and then a cylinder on the other and then shim it up leveling out nice it's already looking good and that gap that fascia board was forced out a lot but now it's uh it's got a good gap there from the wall straightening Becca now they're simultaneously pressing on some pump jacks to bring their wallet and there's the one underneath the front that crack in the slab here has closed up a lot too it's hard to see with that dark line is that's a little bit of water it's looking good it's closed up a bit and there's the front with the two cylinders and the metal shims in place it's working the way back on these five then backfill we're ready to go it looks good thank you a little bit of rain start a little sprinkling [Music]

Channel: Average Guys Garage

Views: 173,409

Rating: 4.5128493 out of 5

Keywords: Average Guys Garage, Garage, Leveling, Foundation, Cracks, Bricks, Door

Id: MtlUR0_isDQ

Length: 17min 17sec (1037 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 27 2017