Socked pipe and gravel is better.

And EZ pipe doesn’t install itself. You still have to “Do it yourself.”

Anywhere water flows across the ground it’s going to pick up sediment along the way.

EZ pipe is crap.

Smartest thing you’ve said yet.

I’m actually in the business.

You’re in the business of spouting uninformed opinion.

Keep trying though. You might accidentally say something smart. (Hasn’t happened yet, but I guess anything is possible).

Dude, just take the L.

You’ve been wrong. You are wrong. And you will always be wrong.

Glad to see you admit you’re talking out of your ass.

Retirement is probably overdue for you.

Well, temporary is relative. A good foundation repair company will make this repair and back it with a lifetime warranty.

So in the sense that life is temporary you’re right.

It is. But bell bottom piers are not suitable for all applications and the amount of excavation required for a bell bottom pier might very well undermine the column you’re trying to stabilize.

Yes, I have.

The most likely explanation is unstable soils. Clay based soils shrink and swell with every wet / dry cycle. This sort of cyclical movement often leads to settlement.

And the location of the column in relationship to the surrounding soil has far more to do with how the column moves than the gate does.

And I’m not your average ordinary dullard. I’m a foundation repair professional with over 15 years in the business.

What are your credentials to support your ill founded opinion?

Or maybe you should have looked at the picture before offering advice.

> and it will most likely stop subsiding

What are you basing this prediction on?

From op’s post we know the column settled. He adjusted the hinge to compensate, and now it’s settled even further.

What gives you any reason to think it’s just going to stop moving on it’s own?

There’s no reason to think the hill is subsiding. It’s more likely the column itself is just settling.

The weight is less of an issue than the area.

It’s actually much easier to control the lift on a large slab, say 12’ x 12’ than it is on the footing of a column which is probably no more than 3’x3’

Keep in mind that even IF this works, you’ve just added more weight to something that is already settling.

It would be a temporary fix.

Install 2 steel piers beneath the footing to lift and stabilize it.

Depending on where you are located, it should cost between $2 and $4 thousand dollars.

It’s not a diy fix but it works.

And don’t believe the guy that said the whole hill is subsiding. That’s possible, but it’s far more likely to simply be settlement.

Read on line reviews and hire the right company. A good foundation repair contractor should be able to do this in a day.

Mudjacking is a term. It’s not the right term for this though.

What op described is known as PolyFoam injection.

It accomplishes the same thing as mudjacking but it’s a completely different process.

If they’re gas appliances it’s not a bad idea. Probably not necessary but better safe than sorry.

If they’re electric appliances then, no. You don’t need to.