Theres the difference, while grandmother's house doesn't have a poured foundation it does have a footing all the way around which doesn't heave noticably.
Our camp doesn't heave anymore, its got good big piers down deep. One fell over (that one is shallow for some reason) and the camp heaved bad until I built a post near that pier. I dug down 3' (as far as I could reach while working on my belly under the camp) and laid concrete blocks with rebar in the voids which I then filled until I got close to the beam, then I switched to bricks. Used to have to jack the camp annually to get the door to open, no problems now. -Curt Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:44:28 -0500 From: Randy Bennell <rbenn...@bennell.ca> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] I'm interviewing at Taylor Message-ID: <5005c09c.2020...@bennell.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed We do not heat the cottage over winter. It does seem to heave a bit here and there and does not settle down until the weather warms up enough for all of the frost to be out of the ground. We get some cracking of the drywall in certain spots. I have thought some about how I might stabilize it but have also decided that drywall is not exactly "cottagy" anyway and have plans to cover it with pine panelling if I live long enough (renovations tends to be a bit of a slow process out at the lake). Mother used to spend the whole year in it and when there was heat in the crawl space, it stayed reasonably steady. We suffered some broken pipe joints the first year that we shut it down but put drain plugs in at each of those spots and have not had issues since. I am also in the process of re-plumbing the whole thing as we are redoing the bathroom and that is the major plumbing spot anyway. There is essentially the one bath, the kitchen sink and a hot water tank so plumbing is not extensive. Going to use pex this time so pretty fast to change out the old stuff. Randy On 17/07/2012 2:36 PM, Curt Raymond wrote: > We've been shutting down my grandmother's house every winter since 2001. No > big whoop, blow the water out of the lines, pour some washer fluid in the > toilet and clothes washer and in the traps under the sink. > > 2000 was the first year she didn't stay the winter. We kept the house at 55F > but still blew out the pipes (dammed pipes freeze even when you keep the > house warm) and it cost $1600 in oil. That was the last year for that. > > Last summer my uncle re-plumbed the bathroom with an eye toward drainage, > blowing out the lines is MUCH easier now. It used to take an hour with a 50% > chance a pipe would still break, now we're down to maybe 15 minutes and no > broken pipes this year. Time will tell... > > -Curt _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
