Junkman
Super Member
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Junkman,
.......................... ground the stumps ........... )</font>
I must tell you that this is the part that really have me worried. You might have gotten those stumps out of the way, but they are still down there. They will eventually rot and then there is a large void where they were. This will not happen right away, and the one incident that I am familiar with, it took approximately 30 years before the problem was recognized. It happened at the shopping center where I had my store. One day after a heavy snow fall where the roof had a lot on it, one of the support columns for the roof pushed through the concrete slab. They cut a hole in the concrete and framed it out for a pier and nothing more was said. All this work was done while the store was closed. Move forward 2 more years, and the building is now vacant with a new tenant thinking of renting the space. They had heard of the "roof" problem along the way. The building owner in an attempt to placate the prospective tenant, had a concrete cutting service cut a 5' square hole in the floor. That cut out piece dropped like a lead sinker about 3'. We all stood there in amazement as the worker jumped into the hole and shown a flashlight around the underneath. He just said, in amazement, you aren't going to believe this. I then jumped into the hole and also looked. There was nothing under most of the floor for 3' down. The building was condemned immediately and repairs made. Just remember that those stumps will come to haunt you some day. If you aren't planning on living there for a long time, you are safe. If this is the last home that you will ever own, then do it right and remove the stumps and have the ground professionally compacted.
.......................... ground the stumps ........... )</font>
I must tell you that this is the part that really have me worried. You might have gotten those stumps out of the way, but they are still down there. They will eventually rot and then there is a large void where they were. This will not happen right away, and the one incident that I am familiar with, it took approximately 30 years before the problem was recognized. It happened at the shopping center where I had my store. One day after a heavy snow fall where the roof had a lot on it, one of the support columns for the roof pushed through the concrete slab. They cut a hole in the concrete and framed it out for a pier and nothing more was said. All this work was done while the store was closed. Move forward 2 more years, and the building is now vacant with a new tenant thinking of renting the space. They had heard of the "roof" problem along the way. The building owner in an attempt to placate the prospective tenant, had a concrete cutting service cut a 5' square hole in the floor. That cut out piece dropped like a lead sinker about 3'. We all stood there in amazement as the worker jumped into the hole and shown a flashlight around the underneath. He just said, in amazement, you aren't going to believe this. I then jumped into the hole and also looked. There was nothing under most of the floor for 3' down. The building was condemned immediately and repairs made. Just remember that those stumps will come to haunt you some day. If you aren't planning on living there for a long time, you are safe. If this is the last home that you will ever own, then do it right and remove the stumps and have the ground professionally compacted.
