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Hello all, I have just purchased a little home in western Québec in an area affected by the 2019/2017 floods. My first order of business is raising the house to avoid future floods. My plan is to use tridodetic posts as my foundation, so the property will essentially be sitting on stilts. My second goal is to install c...

Hello, We own an 800square foot cabin in Northern Saskatchewan that is not winterized. The foundation was originally on concrete blocks so we had it lifted and put on screw piles. When it was lifted the new crawl space was sheeted with plywood and poly was layed on the dirt floor. The contractor's then placed pink insu...

My 560 sq.ft. Knotty Pine Cabin sits on screw piles and rocks in high wind and a little during the stat of the spin cycle on the washing machine. Should I be concerned? Is this common? Hi Pamela, I'd certainly suggest you should investigate - is it the connection between the house and the screw piles that is loose? The...