...and in our case, it cost us $10,000. A couple of years ago, we tore cut down a large Douglas fir tree that was about six feet from our house. It never occurred to us that there was a large root system. It didn't occur that just as there consequences to keeping the tree, there would be a consequence to removing it.
^-- The big Douglas fir that was
A couple of years later, my wife noticed cracks like this on the basement walls near to that corner of the house where the tree was:
^-- Staircase-like cracks in the cinderblock basement wall
Actually, there are a lot of houses in Rochester with foundation problems. In particular, the neighborhood where we live. We would often go on open houses in our area to see what kinds of improvements and such people did to their houses...as sort of a guide to what we ought to do with ours. And more often than not we'd see basement foundation repairs. So we called in a basement/foundation repair company. They recommended putting the side of house on hydraulic piers to correct the foundation footing which had cracked/broken.
^-- The company that we had do the work
^-- Digging an 8' deep trench along-side the foundation
^-- All he way to the footing
^-- Checking for level as they lift the foundation
^--- They had hydraulic piers on the outside...
^-- ...and hydraulic piers on the inside
