Fix-it Guy Takes On Foundation Repair
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 มิ.ย. 2024
- After discovering a sagging floor, the Fix-it Guy investigates and finds the need to replace 13 posts, install adjustable floor levelers, and reattach each to their pier blocks.
Installation of floor beam levelers (Simpson Strong-Tie J57) is described and shown.
0:00 Introduction
0:54 Sunken Floor Issue
2:06 Investigation Below House
4:05 The Problem
5:40 House Jacks
6:44 The Jacking Process
10:02 Beam Levelers Explained
11:03 Day 1 Work Progress
14:32 Day 2 Work Progress
17:23 Day 3 Work Progress
20:52 Day 4 Work Progress
26:30 Corrected Results
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Thank you. I am purchasing a home that will need some floor leveling. Your video shows how to do the job completely.
I'm glad you found it valuable.
You can also sister the joists with 2x6s or 2x8s and raise them over the lip until its level.
@@britneyystaples91Still need support for that span.
Have you attempted to tackle this work yet? If so, how'd it go?
I have watched other subfloor contractors. Hell they are almost walking in the crawl space. They are on clean plastic and all lighted up like a hallway. This is more realistic!! Thank you
Ha! I sent this link to my husband who is crawling around this week trying to see how we fix one of our old floors. He's 74 now and if he wasn't fit and slim he'd never make it. This particular crawl space is much smaller than yours and if he had an extra 10 pounds and got hung up it would require the jaws of life to get him out. Thank you. He'll feel good knowing he has a buddy in the underworld.
That's great :) Best of success to him.
Man. People don't appreciate how much work that is. Thanks for the video. Good job! 👏
Thanks Josh!
I learn to take a old firm seat cushion to lay my head on while working. Your neck and shoulders ends up being so tight that it gives me a tension headache .
Great tip!
Hahahahahah ur head is the problem buddy
I use one of those blue spa pillows.
Man Dad, I am wondering why you didn't call me. . . . Next time please don't hesitate! I kind of enjoy crawling, in a sort of
masochistic way. I spent the last week in crawl spaces, and I love fixing stuff thanks to you.
Parents don't ask for help because we don't want to be a burden. If you took the initiative to stay in routine contact with your dad, you would have known to offer help. Your dad won't be around forever so learn to cherish time spent together whether helping out or just staying in close contact.
At least he offered❤
Well done. I got the same problem underneath my house and you have taken the fear away from tinkering myself.
I always figure there's nothing to lose from trying, except calories. And I can afford giving those away.
SALUTE to you sir...As a remodeling contractor for 30 years, I know that feeling of being under a too small crawl...That's not a crawl space; that's a slither space...Bless your tenacity to take that on... I worked with a guy doing insulation, out in No Cal when I was in the service; He'd say "That's more'n you need!" if you could slither under a joist...:)...But; Tyvek suit, head sock, best mask you can afford, safety glasses and GLOVES makes it a bit more bearable.
Thanks man. Yeah, I should have suited up better, but in doing the vid I figured it'd get in the way.
I worked for years on commercial buildings. Being the skinniest guy on the crew I always got handed the tight crawls. I didn't really mind, but now that I'm not as young its more challenging.
@@ItsFixable :)...Thanks for the reply...I saw further down in the comments that you're out in Cali Do you mind telling me approx where? ...Beautiful state! I was living in Napa Valley/ Vacaville area for around 3 years...But, that was the 80's..
One word of advice, if you will...DON'T GET OLD!...:)...Good health and freedom to you and yours!
@@godbluffvdgg I'm in beautiful Sonoma County! I'm enjoying life and working hard at the don't get old thing ;-)
@@ItsFixable Great area! Count yourself lucky! You have a great attitude; it'll serve you well in this business...:)
You should see mine. Ugh. I can't even turn over without turning longways between joists. And I've been working on it every chance I can since January to try to encapsulate it. It SUCKS!!!
And I've had 2 back surgeries...
but I can't pay anyone what they are asking to do it. They know it is a pain in the arse. $$$$$$
Get at least a vapor barrier under there man.
Great job sir. Cardboard or plastic would have mad it a little easy to slide on going from post to post. But you got it done. Kudos to you man.
Man as someone that has done many low crawls i do feel your pain. My own house needs this and a year on i still haven't mustered the courage to get at it. Im 54 now and dont move as well as my younger self. I forsee lots of Tylenol in my future when i work up the nerve to start. Mine is so low i may have to dig my way to some supports. House is on piles of rocks. Built in 1943.
Sounds like quite a challenge. Remember, you don't need to do it all in one day, or one week, or in one month. Take your time and you won't kill yourself. Best of success to you!
I'm about to put an offer in on a pre-civil war home out in the sticks that has serious brick pier problems. I'm calling in the big guns to give me an estimate before I make my offer. Whatever the cost is, that's what comes off my offer. I fear they're going to have to lift the entire house up to do it because the crawl is so tight even I couldn't get through it and I'm just 100 lbs. I anticipate it's going to cost a bundle.
This was the best video I've found so far. Thanks for making it!
I'm 80 years old and have had bids to level our home (built in 1942). Looks like I'll have to rely on recruiting young men in my family to do this project. Thanks for your video. It gives us a start.
Thanks for watching. Best of success to you!
My anxiety went through the roof when you crawled under there, lol. I’m so glad my crawl space is over 2’ tall. My claustrophobia wouldn’t let me get under a house so low to the ground. Good job 👍
One gets use to it after a bit, and the work takes one's thought away from it and to more useful employment.
I'm steady under cabins and houses sprayfoaming in worse lol
@@youngs2846 ugh! Better you than me, lol. I’m not cut out for that. 😊👍
We love the DIY approach of this video. With a "get'er dun" attitude like this and a little research into the right product solution, you can save thousands. Please note, the soils will continue to move over time. This will continue to open up those gaps. SlabSure foundation monitors can help you to monitor that movement every hour and tell you when you need to raise or lower those Simpson floor levelers. Just holler if you want some advice.
#SlabSure #Foundationmonitoring #foundationrepair
Awesome video! Love the pier and beam homes especially with the shake and bake stuff they are building today!
Excellent job Scott 👏 I see now that I may need floor adjustment done underneath my crawl space.
Also I love the reciprocating saw! I remember that one from childhood! :) :) :)
Wow thank you so much for this my brother and I are about to undertake this exact same job and i had no idea what to look up and randomly came across your vid, props!
What a great learn! Thank you so much
Great video. Thank you sir
I found this video very simple and educational. You can make a dummy try it himself,. In this case, I'm the Dummy thanks alot.
you CAN do it?.
That was awesome. Great job. My neck hurts now :) Crawling around under things and working above you really puts a strain on the neck. Glad it worked out for you.
A left handed saw man is a saw man in his right mind. Great video. Every young man should watch this. Taking care of one’s home can save you thousands $$$$. What is the width between beams? Looks to be at least 32 to 36….wow!
Amen brother! 48" between, and not a layout I would recommend to anyone doing floor structure design.
Good job ... I think I should go and check my house now
Excellent, thorough and specific video. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
"Why is that smoking?" !! I love it. Thats my life too. Good job dude.
You should really be extremely proud of yourself. Awesome sheer willpower and stamina. Great job and saved yourself thousands of dollars
Thank you so much!
your patience as your drive this 4-day process is extremely inspiring! Thank you sir! It was beautiful!
Thank you kindly!
Great video. I am also jacking my house up,. though I have a bit more headroom to move about. I found it easier by putting an unfolded cardboard box down to ease sliding in and out.
Good tip!
Thank god I found this video before I need it. Was recently under the house doing some plumbing. All the columns are still in place and no sags or shifting. Honestly I wouldnt have had a clue how to fix it. Now I would. "Adjustable floor levelers". Im giving you a sub for sure. And thank god I have the house jacks if I ever need them.
Thanks for the video. I'm having a similar problem and have seen a bunch of videos on the subject. Yours is by far the most detailed I've seen.
Glad it was of help!
A man and his journey. A story of triumph! Enjoyed it.
You just amazed and educated me! Thank you!
That is a great job. Now I know how to fixed my floors God bless you.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. By the way I love those jack screws.
Are you concerned that entry way under the home is allowing water to get under your house?
Not a building method you see in the UK, but I 100 percent appreciate how difficult a job this must be.
What a fantastic video. Realistic and helpful. I am preparing to reinforce our post and pier and this is the answer I was looking for.
Great Sarah, glad it was helpful!
I paid $20 for tyvek suit, goggles and cheap gloves. Tyvek helps when you inch around on your back, don't feel pebbles as much. Goggles fogged up so useless. Headlamp battery died when I was way in the back, alone. I learned: Only do this during daylight hours so you get a tiny bit of extra light, replace batteries before going in, have someone check on you outside every 20 mins if possible, apparently I am NOT claustrophobic, and I can fix things/save money. My crawlspace was just like this, very low. Video is great but you weren't complaining enough as it is a rotten task.😂😂
All good ideas!
I didn't record my complaining (no one really needs to hear that), the video shows the challenges.
Doing foundation repair for 6 years as a business it's a first to see someone use a old school jack instead of the newer jacks
Yeah, I guess I'm an old school Fix-it Guy.
Nice work. Really well done. Simpson Strong Tie makes excellent products. My crawlspace has those already installed and it needs a similar amount of adjustment to yours. I was going to ask if I needed to take the weight off of them before adjusting or use any special lubricant. But you covered it all. Please keep up the great work. Subscribed.
Sure wish you were here lol. We have a a pier and beam home that needs leveling so bad! Thanks for sharing this and it’s teaching me how important it is to fix our home and we will be getting someone here ASAP!
Btw-you’re a good teacher!
Where are you located
@@chelseafox4751 I'm located in the state of Maime and I need help with my uneven floors. My crawl space is 3 feet in the shallower part, the rest is 5 to 6 fr.
Excellent job! Would use the same beam leveler for the mid-span support of my crawl space beam.
FIRST OFF, TO YOU GREAT SIR.
THANK YOU for this video! I'm having to level my house due to termite beam an joist damage and also soil settling. I want sure how to make sure level from under the house till this video. You have me the source I needed to get heeerrr done. As a disabled VET I CAN'T afford the cost to have it done so knowing I can do it right myself is relief, something I don't get much of. THANK VERY MUCH AGAIN FOR VIDEO!
Lots of very hard work...great job!
Thanks!
You are one admirable being and your attitude really sets the example for mankind ........absolutely amazing toughness!!!
Wow, thank you!
Excellent. Thank you. I have similar problem. Half the house tilted from 0 to Max 4" at edge. For earthquake house was tied down to the foundation. So when ground settle down it took the house down with it, I am 68 and planning to getting down by myself. Wish me luck!
Best of success to you!
Thank you for putting in the work to share this video! I'm getting ready to redo my mothers homes foundation. Your shared experience will help me along the way. Her home is 115 years old with not just cracked bricks for pears but also rotten beams from leaking pipes. This is gonna be one big job and I appreciate your video, amongst many others I've watched, to help me prep for this job!
Sounds like quite a project. I wish you the best of success!
This is the best technique I've seen. Thanks for sharing. God Bless you
Thanks!
That was a lot of work, well done sir! 💪💪💪
Thanks 👍
Thank you. Exactly what I was looking for!
Great!
I’m so glad I saw this video. I’ve got a similar issue at my place, particularly in the kitchen. This has made me much more confident to give it a go. I appreciate the effort.
You got this!
You can do it but be sure to wear a good mask, gloves and long sleeves. Be careful of glass
That's some impressive work!
You saved yourself thousands!! Great info man
Thanks!
I have been looking for this video for a whole year thanks man
Hey thanks! Please give it a like and subscribe so more people can find it.
Much respect to you sir 🙌!
Great job and great video. I have to do something similar and add a beam I think under the house I believe. This was very helpful
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for the tip on the Simpson floor beam levelers. We got a $12,000 quote from a contractor to fix our sagging center beam. I put temporary floor jacks in there for now but yours looks like a more permanent solution. Thank you sir!
If I'm getting quotes from contractors, I pay attention to what they drive. Right or wrong, that's something I do, albeit not the only thing. Just yesterday I saw a private contractor pull up in a pristine 2021 F-150 Platinum. I've had similar tell me he charges $700 per exterior door if the homeowner already has all the materials.
Great work!
Thanks!
Brilliant, amazing job man 🤞
I hate closed end places like that! I admire your tenacity - good job. DIY rocks!
Thanks my friend!
Very good job 👍 never an easy thing to do!!!
Thanks! Yes, that was quite the exercise. But what a great feeling of accomplishment.
Great job! I crawled under my house once - enough for me. Even though my house needs to be jacked up and leveled I'm never going under there again!
I may crawl under mine again just for old times sake ;-)
@@ItsFixable Haha, maybe you'd really like to be a snake!
Right on Scott good job
Thanks 👍
Great job, Scott. Very clear and precise. You're a better man than I am. I won't get under there for any reason. Ugh.
Thanks dude!
Bravo! Well done. I'm going to have to do something like this for my house. It's reverse of yours. The pier blocks are fine, one corner of the foundation wall has started sinking in the drought.
Should prove an interesting project. I wish you total success!
good job, every time you get under the hose is a life risk you take .,but a man got to do what he has to do ...congrats!
Amen!
Thanks for this. We've been sorting out our place and have a similar problem with 3 posts that are a little on the wonky side. We've got jacks everywhere that scares us but your video helps a huge deal in solving it on a more permanent basis. Well done on that crawl space, it's an experience crawling around there, no one really appreciates how difficult it is getting under there and moving your bones in ways they definitely weren't meant to do :-). Had a look at the post levellers, they say 'do not use to jack up houses' but if it works it works. Well done, that's a tough job.
Thanks. You can do it too. The crawling was the worst part. When they say to not use to "jack up houses," they're referring to dynamic jacking. So in other words, they don't want you to use them to do the primary lift necessary to get things level. Use hydraulic or screw Jack's like I did, for that and then just use the levelers to hold everything in place. That said, I've used mine to make minor adjustments in the years since first doing the project and it seems to work fine. Best of success to you,
Thank you for this wonderful video and information! We're trying to level out the floors in our old house (over 120 yrs old) before we can do our kitchen renovations. My husband will appreciate this very much. God bless!
Glad it was helpful!
Great job sir 👍
Thanks!
Nice job!
Great video! Im doing this now.
Thanks man. Best of success to you!
Pulled up your video looking for a solution for my uneven flooring. I'm in a Townhome with a basement. However I wanted to see what it would take for a crawl space. All I could think while viewing your video is how fluffy I am and that I would definitely get stuck and have an attack 🙃 while attempting this type of job. My first home was on crawl space and I shelled out $$ for any repairs needed under the home. I wrestled mentally about giving away my $$. However this video makes me want to call my former repair person to extended an apology😊. Thank you for videotaping and sharing your crawl space experience.
Good job 👍
Good job
Thanks
You sir ,are a stud!
Thanks for the video!
You're welcome!
nice catch
Yes, curious to where you got the floor jacks that fit to the blocking. Great video!
I discovered the product while looking for solutions on the Internet. I thought I'd have to order them but my local building supplier had them on the shelf just waiting for me :-)
Awsome Job, have a pier and beam home, similar problems, starting leveling with some bottle jacks, last weekend. Thanks for the tips!
Best of success to you Steve. Would love to see the solution you come up with ;-)
Fantastic 🙏 thank you
You're welcome!
I can identify with what you did there. The crawling around makes images in my mind of me creating trap doors in the floor for access. But explaining that to someone else could be a problem. 😅
Trap doors would certainly help, but that too would be a lot of work. Not sure it would be worth it unless ones needs to go under there frequently.
Great video! Man I hate getting under my dad's house, so small of a crawl space. I've already done some plumbing and that sucked, now I'm going to try some leveling.
Yeah, it's tough but good exercise. Best of luck with your project!
Nice work. We’ve bought an older home, and the subfloor joist are spaced just like yours. I am looking into leveling my floors since one side of the house appears to be a little low.
If everything is uniformly out of level a little, I wouldn't worry about it. But if sections aren't flat in relation to eachother, that becomes difficult to build to. It messes up doing tile work, fitting baseboards, rolling closet doors, or even getting a toilet to flush properly. All kinds of difficulties as upgrades or changes are desired through the years.
Great video. Put some plastic down and it’ll be a lot cleaner down there and it’s a ground vapor barrier. Also, you need to dig and poor concrete/gravel footers so they don’t keep sinking on you. (Those footers look like deck blocks in dirt but I’m not sure?) It’s usually what’s under the posts that’s the problem not up top.
Plastic is a good idea but not sure I'm up for that effort at this point. The piers do sit on sloppy concrete pours and indeed are slightly embedded in it making it imposable to shift them for better alignment. I don't know how thick that cement is. I started to dig around one only to decide it was to much effort in that confined space.
That's some ass kicking work ,got to give it too you man , two thumbs up buddy thank you for your video now it's my turn see how it goes .
Best of success to yuo!
I'd recommend a half face respirator in those type of spaces.
He looks like Walter White working under the house replacing the floor joist. But seriously, awesome video and I know you saved a lot of money doing it yourself. Great job!
Thanks for watching!
Sir I wanted to applaud your effort with such old tools and body, also would like to recommend reinforcing the blocks on the bottom before adjusting the levelers
How
@@magicman3437 pour concrete bases I believe.
The piers do sit on/in concrete, though I don't know how deep each pour is. I wasn't about to dig and find out. That concrete prevented me from moving or adjusting alignment of the piers to the beam.
The beginning had me crackin up !!
It would have been nice to have a little help. Great job, that is a lot of work for one guy!
It surprised me how much work it was. The effort was in all the crawling. And of course I crawled twice as much as need for the job simply because I did all the camera work too.
This isnt hilariously like Breaking Bad at all. Lol.....nice work dude!
wow! thanks for filming! this is amazing. We have a sloping floor but dont visually see anything wrong. need a structural engineer I guess.
You're welcome!
One think I would have done differently.. measure the rough distance that you need for the post / leveler and assemble them outside. Reduce the number of times you have to crawl in and out! Excellent video, I need to do something similar to my house.
Good idea.
Great camera work man
Thanks!
Nice work
Thanks Man!
this is excellent. I am getting ready to do some lifting and repair o a91 year old house with crawl space foundation
Good luck!
The first thing I'm seeing is the ground in the crawl space has obvious signs of water erosion. The ground didn't settle, it got washed away. Super saturate any foundations and they will sink into the mud.
nice job
Thanks!
I made a dog runner out of a leveler similar to that. It was used to build bridges. I buried the female section and dropped the threaded part in with a u-bolt attached to it. Dog never got tangled and never got off.
Creative!
Hi , Put " Anti - Seize Compound on the Threads and Nuts , to keep them from Rusting !
Clean and Paint the Jacks keep them from Rusting !
That sounds like a really good idea!
Great vid!!!
Thanks!