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Old 27-09-2003, 03:02 PM
royroy
 
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Default Hurricane Recovery Help Please - I'm stumped

This is probably not the 100% best place to post this, but y'all have
been a help in the past and I just know that, if the information is
not readily available, someone will tell me where to go (in a nice
way)
I live in Virginia Beach. Think of an L-shaped house. The foot of
the L is the family room. Right in that inside corner of the L there
used to be a 36' diameter 75' tall oak tree. It rolled about 25
degrees onto the family room. The tree has since been removed and the
room sealed up. The "upside" of the stump has lifted my deck. I have
a neighbor who just by chance runs a business specializing in the
difficult stump grinding. So, we can solve that problem.
The problem is that there is a basement under the main part of the
house (the family room is on a slab) at that corner. I'm trying to
reduce/eliminate any water problem from the disturbed soil as the
basement was pretty much dry before this,
Seems to be that there is some kind of product/soil that one can mix
with soil which expands as when it gets wet amd plugs leaks. Saw it
used to stop seapage thru an earthen dam once.
I know the option exists to completely remove the stump, excavate
besides the basement wall, treat it and backfill. That is a last
resort, because the insurance company doesn't do stumps.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Roy


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