Looked at an addition for a customer and the house has a rubble foundation. The plans call for a crawl space under the new addition which will be 2′ higher than the old one.
I will definately shore up the origional house on the inside but am leary of the stones. The form guy is as old as the house and says that should be enough since the base of the old foundation won’t get unearthed.
Does anyone have experience with this kind of work?
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sure. Leave it alone and it will leave you alone. But take one stone out and it is like unreveling a knit sweater. The old way was to pay attention to laying like with a dry laid wall so each two support one. they had to since lime mortar washes out after a generationor two.
If it is solid, it will stay solid, as long as you leave it solid. So respedct it as you work around it and it will respect you.
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