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Has anyone here ever had their driveway raised back up? Half of my driveway's slab has broken and started to sink, it's about 2" low on one side, looking pretty bad. I know there are companies that do mud jacking and polylevel, has anyone ever had this done? Can you do it yourself? What does it cost?
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Not sure if this will be of any help, but I have a guy in my store constantly buying bottle jacks. He uses them to fix brick mailboxes and retaining walls, then fills concrete around them after everything is in place. Lol Pretty cheap and he says he has never had a problem. -
LOL that sounds like some pretty ghetto shit, might fix it temporarily, but doesn't sound like a permanent fix.Originally posted by talisman View Post"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -Benjamin Franklin
"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury." -Alexander Fraser TytlerComment
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Just trying to help!
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he raps m&m, whta were you expecting and engineers report>?Originally posted by CJ View Post
god bless.It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men -Frederick DouglassComment
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It's all the fracking that making the ground sink from beneath your driveway, or at least that's what the tree huggers might say.Comment
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Fracking frackers.Comment
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Park the corvette under it?Comment
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Actually, if you think about it, putting a bottle jack under the sinking driveway, jacking it up to the previous level, and pumping concrete in under it doesnt sound like a bad idea. So what you burn a $20 bottle jack in the process?"If I asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." - Henry FordComment
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And this is how they do foundation repairComment
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Its the pumping concrete under it part that I don't quite know how to do. I would assume you would need it under some pressure to make sure it pushes out under the slab evenly. And, it may very well continue sinking.Originally posted by Baron View Post"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -Benjamin Franklin
"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury." -Alexander Fraser TytlerComment
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Originally posted by Baron View Post
I couldn't really find too much fault in what the guy said, though I agree. It does sound ghetto as hell!Comment
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i tried mud jacking. one word......chafe.
god bless.It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men -Frederick DouglassComment
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Maybe run some PVC under the driveway and pour the concrete through it. Let gravity take over. Fill up the gap. Leave PVC there.Originally posted by CJ View PostComment
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