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Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house misc.consumers.frugal-living
Subject: Re: Checking previous mud-jacking job
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 07:09:16 GMT


"Bill Seurer"  wrote in message
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> Don K wrote:
> > I had no idea what mudjacking was, but googled it and found it's
> > when the foundation moves and gets damaged due to high water content
> > in the soil.
>
> No, that's not at ALL what mudjacking is.
>
> Mudjacking is used to push something up (i.e., jack it up, like a car
> jack) from beneath with a cement slurry when it has settled or shifted.
>   It can be used on slabs, sidewalks, driveways, ...

Yah, I've heard that it's the BEST way to fix a sagging slab (from the
mudjacking folks), and that steel piers are the BEST way (from pier
companies).   Mudjacking is cheaper, though, and the work isn't guaranteed
past 10 years or so.

If it was me, unless the property is going for real real real real real real
real real cheap, I wouldn't mess with it.  But that's just me . . .
--Tock