BobK207 wrote:
On Jan 18, 9:53 am, "HeyBub" wrote:
My son's two-story home has a cracked foundation with attendant
settling.

He noticed a crew working on a house a few doors down and had a chat
with the crew chief. The crew chief (named Guadeloupe) came and did
a quick survey of my son's home. The chief said the problem could be
fixed with 18 piers (each going down, in this soil, about twenty
feet) and that his experienced crew (Juan, Jesus, Allesandro, and
Moishe) could do the work over a two-day period.

For $3,000.

This is in dramatic contrast to the presumed cost of $15,000+ from
the kinds of firms one normally thinks of when contemplating house
leveling.

My son's rhetorical thought - and with which I agree - is "what
could go wrong?" Even if the leveling didn't "take" and a more
professional firm had to come and make "adjustments," the
heavy-lifting (pardon the bad metaphor) would have already been done.

I tend to think that house-leveling is similar to replacing a
breaker-box - not rocket surgery, but intimidating simply because it
is so unusual, and that common sense plus the right tools, in
experienced hands, are mostly what are essential.

Couple of other bits of knowledge: Guadeloupe is the brother of my
son's neighbor and Guadeloupe knows my son has a gun.

Any random thoughts on the subject would be appreciated.

The quoted price seems WAY low.........less than $200 per pier
installed and the house leveled?
The numbers I heard thrown about (SoCal) is something like $1000 per
pier.

Maybe G get's his piers for free.

To build on your service panel analogy (house leveling though more or
less routine is not exactly in the same category) .....

if a service panel replacement runs something like $1500.....does it
seem possible to do for $300?

I did mine -200 Amp - for (total out of pocket) $330.00. My son's (also
200-amp) was a tad less since we had parts left over from mine.