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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Sorry for this long post but I don’t know how to explain this easily. I have a small modular home, it came in two halves 13′ X 40′ and was set down on a poured foundation with an "I" beam in the center.  The beam rests on the foundation at each end and on two poles near the center.  I now realize that the "I" beam is about 1/4" too high.  On each side of the beam, the house is "floating".  It rests on the beam and then touches the foundation again about 6 feet away.  A layer of that 1/4" pink foam stuff barely fills the gap.  At the ends, the pink stuff is squashed flat.  After 2 years, it hasn’t settled.  The only reason this is a problem is because when the side door is slammed, (it’s directly above the "floating" part, you feel it though the entire house.  I am thinking of jacking it up and removing a 1/4" piece of steel spacer at each end and above each pole.  My question is… do you think I’ll mess up the drywall or the vinyl siding doing this.  I sort of doubt it since the house is built stiff enough that it hasn’t settled yet.  If it matters, I believe each half of the house weighs about 19,000 pounds. That’s what the crane operator told me anyway.

Tony, I did some jacking on my house, raising the beams under two walls about 3/4" in the middle of each span.  We did it over a period of two weeks. The plaster, yes plaster, cracked at the upper corners of door openings in each wall up three floors. I still think it was worth it. TB

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Sorry for this long post but I don’t know how to explain this easily. I have a small modular home, it came in two halves 13′ X 40′ and was set down on a poured foundation with an "I" beam in the center.  The beam rests on the foundation at each end and on two poles near the center.  I now realize that the "I" beam is about 1/4" too high.  On each side of the beam, the house is "floating".  It rests on the beam and then touches the foundation again about 6 feet away.  A layer of that 1/4" pink foam stuff barely fills the gap.  At the ends, the pink stuff is squashed flat.  After 2 years, it hasn’t settled.  The only reason this is a problem is because when the side door is slammed, (it’s directly above the "floating" part, you feel it though the entire house.  I am thinking of jacking it up and removing a 1/4" piece of steel spacer at each end and above each pole.  My question is… do you think I’ll mess up the drywall or the vinyl siding doing this.  I sort of doubt it since the house is built stiff enough that it hasn’t settled yet.  If it matters, I believe each half of the house weighs about 19,000 pounds. That’s what the crane operator told me anyway.

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