property floods easily- how costly is it to raise your home up?

texas_holdem_nut asked:

i know they have services where they jack up your home, and put supports and i believe concrete under it. i know it is costly but would anyone have any sort of range as to just how costly?
my property is lower than the road and every summer storm season (in florida) the property floods some, and comes very close to coming in my house. in the past before i owned it, it flooded significantly- unbeknownst to me when i purchased. my lot is lowest in the area, so all ground water sort of flows to me.

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5 Responses to 'property floods easily- how costly is it to raise your home up?'

Colby S - July 29th, 2009 at 10:28 am
it would cost a lot.
Sylvia H - July 29th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
It would be more than $15,000.
When my b/f was looking at homes he found one he liked but it had a ***** in the foundation, just to raise up that corner of the house and put a pin in the ground was going to be $15,000 and that included water-proofing the basement.

To jack up the entire house and add support would be at least double, and the fact that you’re in FL, maybe a lot more.
Steve N - July 30th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
Instead of jacking the house up, you can hire someone to excavate around the house and put on an elestomeric membrane which seals the foundation or footing from water. This will keep water from penetrating the foundation. While they are down there they can check out the weeping tile too.
thc451 - August 3rd, 2009 at 12:43 am
Hire a house mover for a weekend- moonlighting. Have them jack it up an inch or less (5K plus or minus) . Cut all the plumbing carefully and plug them-add risers later. Start cranking the house up with a bunch of buddies and a transit level (absolutely no beers on the premises). Go as high as the Mover allows you, then follow the plans of a structural engineer for the new footing- demolish the old concrete footing with a 1 day jack hammer rental and form up to the existing mud sill. That’s about it, mostly very grunty work, hire some illegals, hell, everyone else does. If you can’t do it for under ten grand you didn’t organize it well enough. P.S. make sure its’ not gonna rain- that’s a complicator and a half.
Steve G - August 3rd, 2009 at 6:56 pm
Is it on a slab? It might not even be possible (or feasible, rather).