Anchor Foundation Repair - BCSTX
Anchor Foundation Repair - BCSTX
Homeowners worry when they have foundation problems. Who can you trust? Not only are you concerned about your home's safety and stability, but you're also worried about choosing the right contractor to take care of your largest investment. We understand the stress and anxiety that comes with overwhelming repair projects.
At Anchor Foundation Repair, we offer fair and impartial assessments, empowering education (like this KZread Channel), and a fully transparent repair process. After 35+ years in business, we want you to know as much about foundation repair as we do and we've got no secrets to hide from the Brazos Valley community. This channel addresses your top questions and concerns, giving you the power to handle your foundation problems with 100% confidence.
We also have a little fun with hot topics, behind-the-scenes action, and interesting under-home finds too!
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Must be some heavy people living in the house
A fire place should be held up with a concrete foundation separate from the wood frame all the way to the ground.
No insulation, plastic moisture barrier, pipes aren't wrapped, mold all over from improper ventilation. But they are worried about a board holding up another board?
4x4 is ok. The nails are not. Needs metal brackets not toe nails
Much ado about nothing
I don’t know if there is a minimum height by me for crawlspaces, but I know you have to put a concrete floor down now, years ago it was just dirt and it was damp and it sucked
Carpenter/Framer 30+yrs experience here, this job was done by an inexperienced "carpenter" tackling a job he/she had no business taking. Any frame carpenter knows how to do foundation work and yes this is shite work!!!!!! But don't insult carpenters and framers not knowing the trade!!!!!
Looks like the homeowner added that to help support some heavy item they had in that room.
That vertical crack on the right might not look like much at the moment, but if the issue is expansive soil, it could open up quite a bit during the dry season.
Indeed. Always worth watching…
Hollow cinder blocks should have been filled solid. Looks like cheap/decorative cap block, I don’t know that they are designed to be structural. Cedar shims are not allowed as they will crush under load over time. Probably the correct answer would be steel shims in two or three locations for each masonry pier.
The cap on the block is not load bearing, thats a cosmetic finisher.
Another brainless video
Have the tweekers pour some lazer flat concrete. 😂 And build it on a slab!
i guess you dont have earthquakes there
CRAP JOB 💩 ZERO craftsmanship!!!!! Just because you have a hammer and a tool belt doesn’t make you a carpenter
I would argue that you should hire a carpenter, not a framer. Big difference.
If you had to replace the entire length of the beam what would you do?
Its fine, just add a couple more shims and good to go!
The only thing I see wrong is you crawling around under someones house looking for something wrong. What was the purpose of you being there? Help me understand.
so what is the solution?
So what let's eat some ice cream
Someone like you would do this
Mr. George
Go serve ice cream
You have no idea
Not everyone has a budget to pay for exact labor and materials. I’ve used this material for people under homes. I sealed top of concrete pad and bottom of 4x4. Jacked and shimmed entire 40 foot run of main beams. Used original poured piers and added pads. 6’ centers it’ll last the current homeowner lifetime and he saved 12,000$ he didn’t have.
They used a spiderweb to build on
That's Plaster cracking out very brittle and unstable and thats why we have Drywall it just takes time to perfect our trades for the better.
Hey @WarDogLRS I know it's hard to tell in the photos, but this is drywall. Are you talking about Joint Compound (Drywall Mud)?
Probably done by the homeowner.
We might be simple folk, but around here wood decay caused by moisture, we call that rot. These city folk keep inventing tech talk we’ll never even keep up with
Foundation failure fella.
This is why most old houses in the south were built on piers with an open foundation. Ive seen 200 yo houses that still look like new underneath. It didn't hurt that they used huge heart pine timbers back then either. They were more decay resistant than the sapwood used today.
Depends what the structure is. Probably tighter in more humid conditions too. Low budget attempt to fix floor with give to it. If it’s a wood shed or storage area who cares. If it’s living area of your home should have done better.
They probably had a squeak in their floor
Dry rot: caused by moisture Me:makes sense
I’m calling code enforcement and reporting this building. Evacuate immediately
Can you put wood unprotected on stone or concrete like that? All the moist is gonna be absorped. Where I'm from that wood wouldn't last 5 years.
In most environments, it’s not a best practice to have wood (even when pressure treated) that close to the ground. I understand decks, fences, pergolas, and lots of outdoor structures have PT posts in the ground… but we’re dealing with home foundations in my world. At some point you have to transition to wood if that is the type structure you have. It’s best to do that as far away from the ground as you feasibly can.
@@AnchorFoundationRepair I live in the Netherlands where we always have to deal with a wet invirement when using wood in foundations or ground floors we use a special orange lead paint to protect the wood. Also we like to put hard baked tiles under the spot where the wood touches the concrete, which won’t transfer the ground moist over to the wood. In other environments it’s probably much less of an issue but it’s engrained in our way of thinking. In this case we would do some brick laying to the correct height and place the beam on it.
Looks like the tunnel on the face of the concrete post was built over a tunnel that had been removed previously.
One of the problems with the industry is guys who bought a hammer last week and show up with " Last week I couldn't even spell carpenter now I are one".
P r o m o S M
Termites are no joke, I’ve rebuilt nearly a entire house because of termites, dumped hundreds of gallons of chemicals around the perimeter, found termites everywhere from the basement to the roof and everything in between. They eat from the inside out and hide from light and vibration so they can inhabit a home for years slowly making it through the house before you know. No insurance company will cover termite damage. Honestly just want to spread awareness on how bad these insects can be.
Well said. Awareness and education are keys to staying proactive with issues around your home vs. being reactive.
The brick is laying on its weak side
100% right, and one of my biggest pet peeves when I see them that way
Cement block is turned on the wrong side.
You nailed it
Not a legal support of the beams, no metal connections, Too many separate pieces in the support, NO insulation, Not a firm connection, cinder block (Illegal in most states) should be oriented 90 degrees and filled, NO INSULATION and makes inspector want to be more curious.
You listed them all!!
Come on man it's the water. Get the water to drain away problem solved.
dumping all that water on the foundations it was only a matter of time before it sank
It means it's about to break.
tongue and groove subfloor panels don't come in pressure treated. I looked. I asked. I had to replace dry rot with panels which may rot again after another 20 - 30 years.
Hadn’t thought of it from that perspective…. In my area, the old tongue in groove subfloor quit being used when concrete slabs became the trend in the late 1950s. Now, when i come across a more “modern” crawl space home the subfloor is in panels. Ideally plywood, but I have come across cheaper OSB panels and even a couple really cheap particle board panels that just got wrecked.