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Drought is causing house foundations to sink and crack
STEVEN DERSE, the owner of a corporate travel business in Nashville, cannot feel his house move, but he can hear it. “It’s an eerie creaking sound,” he said, and it echoes throughout his two-story Georgian-style house. COUNTER MEASURES The soil under the home of Psonya Wilson has required some major work and repairs. The two-story garden style house in Brandon, Miss., has required the installation of stabilization piers to shore up the foundation. It started two years ago when a severe drought contracted the soil beneath the foundation, which caused it to crack and sink, pulling the house down with it. The noise has continued intermittently, becoming more insistent last year when flooding pushed the already compromised foundation and house back upward. This seesawing effect was noisy and expensive. Mr. Derse has spent more than $10,000 to install subterranean piers to stabilize his foundation, and he expects he will have to install more to prevent further cracking and crumbling. “You lose your sense of security,” he said. “You love your home and then it literally turns on you.” (article continues on website)..... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/04/ga...anted=all&_r=0 ------------- Here are more links to similar related problems. From KANSAS CITY, Mo. http://www.kshb.com/dpp/news/extreme...me-foundations http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/335...race-for-Isaac --------------- And an interesting article "How to Spot Foundation Damage Caused by Drought" from Allstate http://blog.allstate.com/how-to-spot...ed-by-drought/ |
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