XPost: misc.consumers, misc.consumers.house   
   From: pdcorc@excite.com   
      
   On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 19:39:02 GMT, vze8f3tq@verizon.net (v) wrote:   
      
   >I also would like some demonstration as to why it is "obvious" that   
   >the house has to come down to the foundation.  Spills happen and get   
   >cleaned up with regularity without houses having to come down to the   
   >foundation.  Presumably no oil spilled upstairs, so why take down the   
   >whole house.   
      
   Depends on the situation.  I've worked on homes where excavations   
   could be done in a small area of the basement and the only thing   
   needed was clean fill and a new poured concrete floor.  On others, a   
   machine did the work from the outside, and the foundation was   
   temporarily shored to allow work underneath the floor.  Still on   
   others, we used angled drilling to apply chemicals which react with   
   the oil.  Yet on others, it was so bad, the entire foundation had to   
   go, which meant the entire house.   
      
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