On Mar 13, 12:11 pm, "RicodJour" wrote:
dpb wrote:
On Mar 13, 10:29 am, "RicodJour" wrote:
dpb wrote:

And whatever happened to that settling foundation?

Gosh, been away too long -- don't recall details enough to remember
the particular one in question???

Church building. You were selected, after the fact, as resident
expert to deal with settling due to clay. I recall there was some
gutter runoff that was adding to the problem. Ring a bell?

R


Oh, yeah, that one! Had a couple related threads and at least one
that followed offline more recently and wasn't sure what you might
have been referring to, specifically.

Anyway, on that one, fixed the drainage issues and waited and
watched. Seems to have ceased moving. Appears in talking w/ a local
structural engineer and in examining all we could get at that what
actually happened was the old foundation from an existing building on
the building site was removed but the resulting trench only backfilled
by the demolition crew and superficially packed by driving their
'dozer over the trench a few times. Looks like the new building
straddles that location on one side and there was some subsidence
along one of the old foundation locations but the new building is
wider than the old and so the other side is on newly excavated area.
Looks like the center section which also wasn't formerly trenched held
the floor slab like the center of a teeter-totter and the slab cracked
along the center and sank a little w/ the outer wall on the south side
as well. But, it's now been nearly two years and the last time I
checked all the out-of-square doors and windows were the same amount
of out-of-square and the expansion joint separation in the brick
veneer is still virtually the same so at this point I'm planning on
simply fixing the cosmetic damage over the summer and then just
continue to watch and wait until forced into something else. But,
given the amount of moisture we had this fall after another dry summer
and no additional discernible movement, I think it has reached an
equilibrium.