I'm trying to post a picture, so lets se here....
well, if this worked, you will see that the house where our truck is parked is now above the 100 year flood line....the house next to it?...not so much..
Looks like they won't have to worry about flooding anymore, but that first step out the front door is a doozy.
pretty much an everyday occurrence here.
Here is a house that I did about 6 months after Katrina.
The owner did not have to go up that high but you might as well to take advantage of the space underneath for storage etc,
I am guessing that is the same situation for your house.
With the $30k grants, like I said it is an everyday occurrence
This house in Uptown New Orleans probably had only a few inches of floodwater from Katrina before the raising
here.
Muddy
How do they raise the homes? Long supports under and then jack them up or something else. Looks like you could park several cars under and also your boat. It makes sense to me and hopefully keeps your other stuff on dry land when the next big flood happens.
jacks and blocks.
Here is on that I finished the final on earlier this year.
These pics were taken during the construction.
as a side note, the resident is wheel chair bound since his youth
He is going to need a long ramp.
and before
Even better are home elevators. I've been the engineer and surveyor on the raising of many homes in an area that received grants from the ACOE. After all the raisings, I then got a second round of business from people who wanted lifts. Some were fairly simple designs with electric winches for power, and others were high end commercial systems that are available for the home user.
On the subject of lifting homes, it is amazing what we've had lifted. Some homes had brick fireplaces that got lifted along with the home. I was amazed at some of the homes that were lifted and the challenges that were overcome.
One of the interesting things that happened here in Mandeville, La after the new regs and Katrina was that the neighbors/property owners in the Lakefront/Historic district formed their own company to acquire elevators in order to reduce costs to the wholesale price.
By joining the elevator Co-op, they saved a lot of money.
I worked for a house mover for a couple of years after I graduated from college. It paid well and I hadn't discovered surveying yet. I expected it to be a very physical job but it turned out to be a very cerebral occupation.
I would say it was about 10% brawn, 30% proper equipment and 60% observation, contemplation and patience.
Raising of a house...Reminds me of a project
Talk about raising a house, how about moving a lighthouse!
Here's a report on a project that I was involved with bck in '96'....
Note: the report was NOT written by me
how do you deal with the power lines that are right outside the front door?
That stack of blocks doesn't look very stable against lateral forces. Is there some cross bracing I don't see?