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bucolic_frolic

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8. Can't they just slice 29" out of one lower floor?

Reply to BlueWaveNeverEnd (Original post)

Sun Jun 11, 2023, 08:25 AM

Jun 2023

LOL.

Or pound in 29" of wedges? Like moving a tree in the desired direction.

Bottle jacks?

Or stabilizing cables or steel beams with a massive corkscrew come-along to another building or rock area?

I'm fishing, of course, but injecting foundation concrete doesn't seem to be working.

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