How long should a house be allowed to stand on cribbing?
Down the street from me there is a house that has been on cribbing for at least three months but I want to say closer to four. The house is a rather large four square sitting about 18 feet above the bottom of the hole. 8 feet of it being above grade with houses no more than ten feet away on either side.
At some point time wise in a project of this type, does a house standing on cribbing go from a necessity to negligence?
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Last year there was a house in town that blew over. The crew working on the project left for lunch and came back with the house sideways. I'm happy to say it wasn't my project. I heard they winched the house back onto the cribbing, but there was tremendous damage. I bet their liability insurance carrier wasn't impressed.
We've only had one up on cribbing over a couple of days, then we get them down as soon as possible.
We're seismic 4 and 5 zones with 130 mph wind zones, so we don't like to play around. I'm not sure what your location is.
How long should a house be allowed to stand on cribbing?
A house should always SIT on cribbing. It's dangerous to have it stand.
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LOL! I was beginning to think you had no sense of humor!
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Ya, he almost got a MrT.brownbagg OneLiner Award for that.
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Weeeeellllllll, ok, as long as there's no toe wrigggling by either group of'ya <wink>Occupational hazard of my occupation not being around (sorry Bubba)
Here's a house we had cribed and we had it up for at least a couple months we had to bring in fill and compact that then dig footings and build all the exterior walls for it to sit on. At first it was only about six feet off the ground then we had to raise it for 10' walls, it was scary moving cribbing around so we could work here and there. Had never thought about being blown over, just falling for whatever reason. It swayed and creaked but I had my place to dive if something happend, at least that was my plan. That was a money pit of a house, never do that again, to nerve racking!
My guess is that as long as it's supported adequately there's no issue from the cribbing. I'd think there's more detrimental effects from just sitting empty such as rodents, plumbing not drained completely, etc...
I'm in the S.F. bay area and my house was on cribs 6 months and we lived in it. If a house is cribbed correctly, it isn't under more strain than on a foundation. My house moved less on cribs than it did on it's 100 yr old 4' tall basement walls on a half assed 60 yr old foundation
When we bought the house and the washer went in spin mode, it shook like the Loma Prieta quake. ; ^ )
At some point time wise in a project of this type, does a house standing on cribbing go from a necessity to negligence?
You would have to ask my neighbors that. The building dept. had no issues.
Mike
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