How much is it to level a pier and beam home, around 1800 square feet?

Question

I just want an average cost?

Answer 1

To do it all at once, several thousand.  You will have to get bids because methods and cost vary with the location and house details.

  When we moved into our 1100 sq.ft. house in Dallas TX, it looked very nice, but the house sloped so much from the living room to the middle of the kitchen, the dogs played at dropping balls and chasing them as they rolled.  I did the leveling myself and found that what looked liked leveling beams under the house were actually just bracing to keep the floors from bouncing - the house had to lifted on the original sills.

   I did it with 3 12 ton bottle jacks, 1/4" steel plates for each, concrete and wood pads set on the dirt, a lot of spacer blocks and shims and a bunch of things shaped like the letter Pi that allowed me to lift a spot, put in shims and remove the jack to use another spot.  I moved around and raised places no more than 1/2" at a time so it took several months.  The lowest place went up about 2.5 inches and I rigged permanent "basement" lighting and used small tubing, aquarium T connectors, and colored water to provide level markers.   The worst connected jobs were finding the sag was largely due to one of two chimneys (unused) no longer rested on the ground but on the frame of the house, so taking it out, and discovering that water from the drive had soaked the ground under the bath so I pushed about 30" of 6" concrete cylinder into the ground with the jack before it had enough grip to lift the house any.  In most cases, I was working between the original piers, shimming under my lifting Pi's and on top of the piers where I did not replace the piers - most of which were boi d'arc stumps.