Hi people, this is my first post on this forum, so I am unsure of this has been mentioned before. Recently we got a summer house built in our back garden. I said at the start, to the cowboy builder, can you build this on bricks I have? (I have a load of fire bricks left over from an old storage heater.) Oh, don't worry, he said, it will be built off the floor anyway. Stupidly I left him to it. So now the building has rising damp, as the wood is soaking up moisture.
I am looking for ways to lift the building, so that we can slide bricks under. I bought a pair of labour saving tool jacks, but they won't reach under the building, plus they are not strong enough to lift any part of the building. They say they can lift 800kg, but I have my doubts.
Can anyone suggest a way to lift the building six inches, even a corner at a time, so that we can put bricks under to stop this rising damp.
I should mention, we cannot dig under the shed as its built on a concrete pad.
I am looking for ways to lift the building, so that we can slide bricks under. I bought a pair of labour saving tool jacks, but they won't reach under the building, plus they are not strong enough to lift any part of the building. They say they can lift 800kg, but I have my doubts.
Can anyone suggest a way to lift the building six inches, even a corner at a time, so that we can put bricks under to stop this rising damp.
I should mention, we cannot dig under the shed as its built on a concrete pad.