Foundation workers perform this structural repair by jacking up a house and removing rotted or sunken support posts. New stumps, typically made of treated timber, concrete, or steel, are installed on fresh footings and leveled before the house is lowered back down. It corrects sloping floors and prevents severe structural failure in older timber-framed homes.
Heard on the job
The floors are sagging heavily in the kitchen, so we'll need to restump that entire corner of the house.
Also heard as
- reblock