Concrete stumps prepared for residential structural support

Sunshine Coast Concrete Services

Sunshine Coast Concrete Stumps

Concrete stumps on the Sunshine Coast provide coordinated structural support once ground conditions and requirements are confirmed.

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Project Overview

Concrete Stumps Sunshine Coast

Planning Sunshine Coast Concrete Stumps means checking support locations, ground conditions, access below the structure and the building requirements before installation or replacement.

Replace failing timber stumps with concrete, bringing the floor back to level and giving an older home a footing that cannot rot.

Timber stumps do not last forever, and on the Sunshine Coast a great many houses are still standing on the ones they were built with. Our concrete stumps Sunshine Coast team replaces failing timber with concrete, re-levels the floor in the process and gives the house a footing that cannot rot or be eaten.

We inspect the subfloor before quoting, because the number of stumps that actually need replacing, how far the floor has dropped and what the bearers and joists are doing all change the scope. Sloping floors, sticking doors, cracked cornices and gaps opening above skirtings are usually what brings people to us, and they are symptoms rather than the problem.

Whether the house needs a handful of stumps replaced or a full restump, our team handles excavation, footings, stumps, packing and levelling, and works to the permit and inspection requirements that apply.

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Plan The Work

Planning Concrete Stumps on the Sunshine Coast

Restumping starts under the house rather than in it. Stump condition, floor levels, bearer and joist sizes, subfloor access and how far the house has moved all need establishing before a scope or a price means anything.

Condition of the existing stumps and the subfloor timbers

Concrete stumps on the Sunshine Coast need set-out, ground conditions, load requirements and access checked before support work begins.

How far out of level the floor currently sits

Concrete stumps on the Sunshine Coast need set-out, ground conditions, load requirements and access checked before support work begins.

Subfloor clearance and access for crews and materials

Concrete stumps on the Sunshine Coast need set-out, ground conditions, load requirements and access checked before support work begins.

Building permit, engineering and inspection requirements

Concrete stumps on the Sunshine Coast need set-out, ground conditions, load requirements and access checked before support work begins.

A Practical Result

Restumping on the Sunshine Coast: What To Expect

Expect a staged, methodical job rather than a quick one. The subfloor is propped, old stumps are removed section by section, footings are excavated and poured, concrete stumps are set and the bearers are packed back to a level that has been agreed with you beforehand. Bringing an old house fully back to level is not always the goal, because moving a century-old structure too far too fast opens up plaster and cornices, so the target level is a decision made with you.

Some plaster cracking and door adjustment is normal afterwards, and any honest restumper will tell you that before starting rather than after. Once complete, the house sits on footings sized for the ground beneath it, and the sinking that caused the problem stops.

Restumping generally needs a building permit and inspections in Queensland, and we will tell you what applies to your property before work is booked.

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Local Conditions

Why Restumping Is So Common on the Sunshine Coast

The Sunshine Coast has a large stock of Queenslanders, colonial and post-war timber homes, and most of them were built on timber stumps sitting directly in the ground. Given enough decades of moisture, rot and termite pressure, those stumps soften at the base and the floor above them follows. It is one of the most common structural jobs in the region precisely because of what and when we built.

Reactive soils through the hinterland make it worse. Ground that swells through the summer wet and shrinks back over the drier winter lifts and drops footings unevenly, so the floor does not settle uniformly — it goes out of level, which is why sticking doors and sloping floors usually appear in one part of the house rather than everywhere. Concrete stumps on properly sized footings deal with both problems at once, since there is nothing to rot and the footing is designed for the ground it sits in. A subfloor inspection is the only reliable way to confirm how many stumps need doing and what the job involves.