My home drops about 4 inches from front door to rear bedroom. It's single story, crawl space and center support cement block appears cracked. I got two estimates, 4,100 and 1,800. Vast difference – one using metal supports, the other cement piers. Will leveling help the issue?
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You ask if leveling will help the issue. The answer is maybe, maybe not. It depends on the underlying issue that led to the structural damage you describe.
In a situation like this, it is very important that the project be approached properly, and that is by first getting the home evaluated by a licensed structural engineer. The engineer can help identity the cause and then design a repair to address it.
Once you have the cause and specific repair identified, you can bid the repair work out to contractors. This is a better approach than having the contractor design and bid the repair, which sounds like what you are doing now.
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