U.S. Homes are Cracking

its just the mcmansions, don't worry if you have a real home.

mcmansions...

wow, weird.

As Johnny Carson would say "I DID NOT KNOW THAT."

ooh, McMansions, I forgot that one. Thanks, I'm going to use it in an article I'm writing!

As the transition of the planet to a higher default density continues, with all that means for the 'composition' of life forms and their manifestation, all lower density material forms will crumble turn to dust.

Tell David Wilcock I said Hi. lol

My house is 18 years old. Bought it 3 years ago. First two years nothing. This year I have lots of huge cracks forming on both inside and outside walls. I'm in AZ.

well shoot, I thought it might have something to do with an increase in earthquakes...

[link to anf.ucsd.edu]

This is why you build your home on a solid foundation.

You should start watering around your house a few times a week.

1. Water your foundation.
Run a soaker hose around the exterior of your home and let it run for a few hours each week. This will help you maintain the moisture levels in the soil around your home, keeping it from pulling away from your foundation.

2. Clean out or install guttering.
Maintaining moist soil around your foundation is important, but occasional downpours from a Tulsa thunderstorm can provide too much moisture too quickly. This causes soil to erode away from your foundation and creates problems.

3. Install Root Barriers.
Beware of large tree roots which can absorb a lot of moisture in the ground near the tree. If you have very large trees near your home, a drought can force tree root systems to reach further underneath your foundation in search of moisture. You may be able to install root barriers to prevent the roots from causing problems with your foundation.









[link to edensstructural.com]

Support a society that wages a war on a flower for no good reason? Just so you can grow your own little home on a plot of land?

Prepare to water your growing plot before the sun smokes the grownhome.

Crackheads...

crackhouses

My parent's don't own a McMansion, and we have been having to water the foundation to keep it from cracking.

Here in Texas, it doesn't matter what kind of house you live in. If you're in the hardest drought areas, you water your foundation or lose the house. We've given up on the fields. They are a total loss, but the house is where we've shared holidays, weddings, then came the grand kids and the great grand kids. My entire family from my Dad down to my great niece has a stake in that house and it doesn't have shit to do with money. It's home.

The homes are Carcking!!

May I recommend a nice mobile home?

Yes that is why they build skyscrapers on rubber mounts and rollers.....

In earthquake prone areas you actually don't want a solid foundation you want one that allows for some movement.

Actually it happened to my mother in the UK about 15 years ago. There was a long hot summer and the clay shifted and the rear extension had to be rebuilt. Lucky for her the council had a program for pensioners, so she had to move out for a couple of months and then live in the house for at least a further 3 years.

It cost her a lot of inconvenience, but not more than about two thousand quid.

Ideally you would build your home on a solid foundation of tomato plants.

Glad this is getting even more exposer.
Here's another thread:
Thread: Start WATERING YOUR HOMES NOW!!!! Avoid expensive repairs----Seriously, here's why...

lol U.S homes to apply to only shit ghetto homes in st. loui

An ideal mobile home foundation is cinderblocks. You know, those things that they make commercial buildings and the more durable homes out of?

have a house in michigan it's been there 80 years, the only cracks we got are in the wall paper

/crack heads walkin around

I read on GLP it helps to be watering your foundations and land surrounding your home?

This is why I got into foundation repair a year ago.

RARELY COVERED BY INSURANCE, LOL!!!!!!!

GO FIGURE

The only way a foundation problem is covered is when you have coverage for under slab plumbing, and you have a leak causing a "wash out".

But of course. They are famous for that.

No, you may not.

My parents bought 11.34 acres here in Texas 14 years ago. The house that stood on the property was an old farm house that had been used as a Bait and Tackle shop for fishermen going to Lake Aquilla. My parents have worked and worked, turning that old house into a beautiful home. They have completely reworked all of the old oak in the house that had been painted over. Many of the doors and cabinets I helped my father restore to the natural wood. It is beautiful outside and inside.

I'm 46, and in my lifetime I've watched my parents lose two homes during hard economic times. Our home in New York, which my father and Grandfather built together, was lost during the economic upheaval of the Carter administration. Many small farmers around Cortland, NY lost their homes when the jobs dried up and companies closed. One of those companies was Brockway Motors where my father worked. Cortland was like a ghost town during those times and as a 10 year old girl who had spent her life raising dairy cows, squaring bales of hay during haying season, and picking potatoes to earn Christmas money, I could not begin to imagine how everything I had come to know and love could be wiped away in an instant. The close knit farming community, and all of the families I had worked along side of, gone to church with, celebrated holidays with, sold my silly pet rocks to, and whose children were my friends started moving away. It was heart wrenching.

So we moved here to Texas and my father went from building diesel trucks at Brockway Motors in Cortland, NY, to driving a rig hauling oil drilling equipment here in Texas. Once again, rules changed. The drilling stopped for some reason I couldn't understand, my father was once again out of a job, and the house we had started to call home we had to leave due to lack of money.

So as you can see, now that my father is 70 and my mother 68, my brother and my sister and I will be damned to watch my parents lose another home for any reason. My father will see the seedling trees he planted grow into precious shade trees for the house he has worked so hard on so that his family could have a home.

I'm sorry that you think that having a home where a family can lay down roots is such a silly endeavor. Perhaps it is just an old-fashioned dream of immigrant families, who had to come to America to be free from tyranny, to want to build a legacy for their children that they can pass on when they are gone. A place where the laughter of years past will linger and the memories of the two people who taught me what it meant to be an American will never be forgotten.

Last Edited by Éireann on 09/02/2012 03:42 PM