Adjustable Stumps & Adjustable Footings in Victoria

Easy Footings supplies and installs adjustable stumps and adjustable footings across Melbourne and Victoria. Our height-adjustable steel house stumps are installed without concrete, level precisely on the day of installation, and can be re-levelled in minutes if the ground ever moves — the modern answer to fixed timber and concrete stumps.

What Are Adjustable Stumps?

Adjustable stumps are engineered steel house stumps fitted with a threaded top assembly that allows the height of each stump to be fine-tuned after it is installed. Instead of packing bearers with shims or accepting whatever level a fixed concrete stump gives you, an adjustable stump lets the installer wind the head up or down until every bearer sits perfectly level.

Our StumpRite adjustable stump system takes this a step further: the stumps are driven or screwed into the ground mechanically, with no excavation and no concrete. That means no curing time, no weather delays and no concrete trucks — you can start building the same day your adjustable footings go in.

Because the adjustment is built into the stump head, re-levelling years later takes minutes with hand tools. In Victoria's reactive clay soils, where seasonal movement is the leading cause of sloping floors and cracked plaster, that adjustability is the difference between a quick tune-up and a major restumping job.

Where Adjustable Footings Are Used

From re-levelling century-old weatherboard homes to supporting brand-new modular builds, adjustable steel stumps suit almost every low-rise project in Victoria.

House Restumping

Replace failing timber or concrete stumps under older Melbourne homes with adjustable steel stumps. The floor is re-levelled precisely on installation day, and can be adjusted again in future without excavation. Read our restumping guide.

New Homes & Extensions

Adjustable footings give builders a dead-level bearer line on day one — no shimming, no packing. Ideal for extensions where new floors must match existing levels exactly.

Decks & Pergolas

Get a perfectly level deck frame even on uneven ground. Adjustable stumps for decks install in hours and carry full engineering certification. See the deck footing guide.

Sloping Blocks

On sloping sites, every stump needs a different height. Adjustable stumps make level floors straightforward on grades where fixed stumps would need endless cutting and packing. Sloping block guide.

Granny Flats & Modular Homes

Prefab and modular buildings demand precise, consistent support points. Adjustable steel footings deliver exact set-down heights for granny flats, pods and transportable homes.

Sheds & Studios

Backyard studios, workshops and sheds sit level and stay level on adjustable stumps — installed in a day, in any weather, with zero concrete.

Adjustable Stumps vs Fixed Concrete Stumps

Much of Melbourne and regional Victoria sits on highly reactive clay. As the clay wets and dries through the seasons, it swells and shrinks — and fixed stumps move with it. With traditional concrete stumps, correcting that movement means jacking the house and digging out stumps. With adjustable stumps, it means turning a threaded head.

Our adjustable footing systems are also installed differently: they are mechanically driven or screwed past the reactive surface layer into stable ground, rather than sitting in a hand-dug hole filled with concrete. The result is a footing that is both more stable from day one and far easier to maintain over the life of the building.

Every adjustable stump we install is engineer certified to Australian standards, with the system specified from your soil report and load requirements. Compare the systems in our RapidStump vs StumpRite vs SurePile guide, or see how they stack up against poured piers in concrete-free footings vs traditional concrete.

Adjustable Stump FAQs

What are adjustable stumps?

Adjustable stumps are steel house stumps with a threaded head that lets you fine-tune the height of each stump after installation. They are used to achieve a perfectly level floor on new builds, decks and extensions, and to re-level existing homes during restumping. Systems like StumpRite are installed without concrete, so there is no curing time before you build.

How much height adjustment do adjustable stumps provide?

Most adjustable stump systems provide fine height adjustment via a threaded top assembly, typically allowing tens of millimetres of adjustment after installation. This is enough to level bearers precisely on installation day and to re-level the structure later if seasonal soil movement occurs.

Are adjustable stumps better than concrete stumps in Victoria's reactive clay?

In reactive clay soils common across Melbourne's west and north, fixed concrete stumps can heave and settle with seasonal moisture change, and re-levelling them means excavation. Adjustable steel stumps anchor below the reactive surface layer and can be re-levelled from the top with hand tools, making ongoing maintenance far simpler.

Do you install adjustable stumps across all of Victoria?

Yes. Easy Footings supplies and installs adjustable stumps and adjustable footings across Melbourne, Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo, the Mornington Peninsula, Gippsland and regional Victoria.

Can adjustable stumps be used for restumping an existing house?

Yes. Adjustable steel stumps are ideal for restumping older Victorian homes. Failing timber or concrete stumps are replaced with engineer-certified adjustable stumps, the floor is re-levelled precisely, and future re-levelling can be done without excavation.

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Adjustable Stump Installation Areas

We install adjustable stumps and concrete-free footings across Victoria. Explore our service areas below.