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Quality Of life
Citizen
Username: Quality_of_life
Post Number: 3
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Monday, January 30, 2006 - 5:16 pm: | 
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Have an old leaning garage that needs to be jacked up, and repaired. Any one that has had a problem like this please respond to action taken. |
Meandtheboys
Citizen
Username: Meandtheboys
Post Number: 2819
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Monday, January 30, 2006 - 5:20 pm: |
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Had this very same problem, as do many Maplewood garages, it seems. We used Bob Hume and were very happy with the work, the price and the end result. Another company that seems to do this a lot around here is Vinpat, but the quote we got from them was way higher than the one we got from Bob Hume. |
cwalk
Citizen
Username: Cwalk
Post Number: 50
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Monday, January 30, 2006 - 5:21 pm: |
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Oh, boy! Do I have the guy for you! Call Bob Hume or Bill Preston from RGH Construction in maplewood I think. Just do a search on the web and you'll be sure to find it. These people are not only reasonable and reliable, they have magic (you should have seen our garage--we were told by restoration specialists that it had to be torn down, but this company fixed it beautifully).
My husband and I worked with Bill Preston and we liked him very much. I'm glad to have had such a positive experience on such a common problem with these older houses. Let me know if you can't find the number an I'll dig it out. |
Case
Citizen
Username: Case
Post Number: 1060
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Monday, January 30, 2006 - 6:32 pm: |
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I've heard great things about the work Bob Hume does on garages - I wish I had hired him instead of Deronde... live and learn, I guess. |
Richard Kessler
Citizen
Username: Richiekess
Post Number: 98
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 8:13 am: |
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Call Bill Preston...they've got a Polish carpenter who specializes in this work...did a great job for us. |
teddytwotimes
Citizen
Username: Anothernewguy
Post Number: 12
Registered: 6-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, February 2, 2006 - 2:43 pm: |
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so far my response has been to laugh at it....but one day I will force it back into an upright position and install steel tension rods directly across the short (leaning) dimension at the upper plate height, secured with turnbuckles for future adjustment. 3 or 4 should do it. Some wood diagonal bracing within the walls at the corners should secure the walls plumb at least until the roof caves in. |
Bob K
Supporter
Username: Bobk
Post Number: 10519
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 2, 2006 - 3:20 pm: |
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For what it is worth Vin Pat is doing a job on Oakview just east of the new stop light at Valley.
We had this problem with our first house and a carpenter wenched it back to plumb and installed bracing in the ceiling, he called it a cat walk. I then sheathed the inside with 3/4 inch plywood after replacing the sill plate and some rotten studs on one wall. I drive by their occasionally and it still is standing. The work was done 25 years ago.
The garage had no exterior sheathing and was sided with something called novelty siding. Since it was a two car garage, I suspect it had been built in the 1950s to replace a one car garage that probably would have been built with the house in 1925. |
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