Texas ODs: Home Maintenance Question

Feb 13, 2002
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My mother in law lives in the Dallas area and was asking my opinion on foundation leveling techniques. I know absolutlely nothing about this. So I was hoping that some of our Texas ODs would be able to help me out.

There apparently a bunch of different methods, from using steel beams (which I''ve heard is not recommended), to pouring concrete pillars (two being better than one), to compressing pre-poured concrete blocks (seems worse than pouring concrete to me??) to a 'new' system called Cable Lock that uses a steel cable inside of concrete columns (similar to re-inforced concrete with rebar I think) Prices range from like the mid 5 grand range to over $20 000...

Any help would be apprecited.

As a last note my MIL wants it "done right" and is not looking for "the cheapest method"

Thanks