Orchard Hills & Lower Peters Canyon Foundation and Concrete Repair

Find helpful answers to bad building structure, wet crawlspaces and sunk concrete slab conditions in properties around northern Irvine.

If your building or property has an issue in one of these situations, maybe you aren’t convinced how bad your problem is.

You might start a short phone call and they could talk about it.

They can give you some fundamentals on the phone, and arrange a convenient time for someone to drive out and take a look at your property.

After the examination, they will provide some recommendations about how they could get it taken care of.

Not Sure Your Home Has a Problem?

Now and then it is somewhat noticeable when you have a concern.

In other cases, the indicators are not so easy to see.

These complications may appear at any model of house, from a new house to an older one.

This residence has easy to see trouble

Here Are Some Symptoms to Watch For:

• Cracking in exterior or interior brick walls, solid surface walls or mortar
• Splits in drywall between a door frame and the ceiling
• New gaps around doors, commonly exterior doors and garage doors
• Pitched or uneven floors
• Separations or spaces between exterior walls or one wall and the chimney
• Separated or cracked interior molding, typically crown or door molding
• Big cracks in a concrete foundation or floor
• Water, dampness or a musty smell down in your basement
• Spaces between your ceiling and a wall and ceiling and floor
• Doors or windows that close hard or stick to their frames when you open them
• Floors are sagging, weak or a floor tile is loose or broken
• Water pools close to your house after a rain or in your crawlspace

Can These Problems Be Fixed?

Homeowners tend to view their house and presume their situation is so bad, it is going to turn out to be a costly and very challenging job to get finished.

But most of these types of problems can get solved.

But these kinds of home repairs take a trained foundation repair contractor and work crew, utilizing the right equipment, to deal with a sunken house foundation, perform a house leveling or correct any challenging structure trouble.

Crawlspace Waterproofing Service

If you are putting up with a wet crawlspace, their specialists can figure out what is going on and learn how water is able to get into it.

It is possible they may get to treat the issue without the need for access to the basement walls after all.

Mudjacking or Concrete Slab Lifting in Lower Peters Canyon

Some property owners notice that a section of their concrete sidewalk, terrace, driveway or garage has sunken a little bit through the years.

If this has happened at your property, they can usually remedy it through a procedure often called mud jacking or slabjacking.

Mud jacking is when they slowly send a caulk-like material beneath a sunken cement slab.

After this thick material spreads out and gathers under the slab, it solidifies and drives the slab up to the height you want it to be.

As soon as your concrete slabs are all the same level, your pathway, patio or driveway will look better and people won’t be tripping and stumbling on the uneven joints any longer.

Why Is This Happening to My Property?

Although you can’t notice happen, our ground moves slightly over the years.

The ground contracts and expands.

This occurs mostly because of contact with moisture and changing temperatures.

Drawing of a home and its sinking foundationAnd even if this activity is small and gradual, these expansions and contractions can load pressure on whatever building is in or on top of the earth.

And over time, this repetitive pressure can affect the integrity of even a very well-built building.

Although you can’t control our weather, having your house put together on a lot which has poor drainage and inappropriate grading or failing to put on decent rain gutters can be significant reasons in whether or not your home develops a structure or water issue.

Only a few homeowners experience complications in one of these areas; many more do not.

The best ways to deter house structure problems is to eliminate rain water from collecting around and under your home.

A critical element outside your control is the category of soil your house was constructed on.

Not all types of soil are the same.

Some varieties of soil will swell up when exposed to water more than other varieties do.

It doesn’t happen too often, but just having a really big tree up close to your residence can even be a contributing element.

The roots from a large tree may expand well underneath a house and extract moisture from under that house during hot summer seasons.

This may make that soil too dry. And when it is way too dry, it contracts and shrinks.

These are types of environmental stress which can cause small cracks in your home’s structure.

And then all these smaller cracks allow in a little water, and those smaller cracks get wider each year.

Can I Wait Before I Do Something About It?

If it appears like you may be experiencing an issue with your home, it’s best to at least get a specialist to inspect it and get their thoughts.

You should not ignore it and then hope that it goes away someday. Because it won’t.

A foundation crack repair job should really be tackled as soon as possible.

You are already aware your foundation physically assists the entire physical structure.

Your walls, floors and roof rely on it. If you do not take care of it you will only make it worse and you may wind up in a more serious scenario later.

If you see small amounts of moisture under your house somewhat frequently, you know that water can bring about a mold problem.

No property owner wants a mold problem in their basement.

If you are considering putting your house up for sale, no real estate buyer is interested in buying a house which had any serious structure issue or has obvious signs of past water damages in the basement.

And, if you’re planning to sell your home, it’s a seller’s responsibility to let a house buyer know about any significant problems with your home.

They can develop a strategy to fix your structure problem.

Try to not worry.

Usually a great many cases that seem to the property owner to be too tough to resolve can generally be addressed.

Granted, the work might call for an advanced and often difficult process, but these projects can get done.

You Can Pick Someone Local

This is an area business that has been in the house repair field for some time. Contractor Has Finished All the Renovations

These local contractors have the knowledge essential to undertake smart foundation inspections and expertly correct your issue.

What Suburbs Do They Work In?

The typical service area consists of the complete metro area, especially the neighborhoods of Orchard Hills, Lower Peters Canyon, Northpark, Northpark Plaza or Beckman High School.

If your CA home isn’t in an area where they usually work, they can simply let you know when you call.

The Work They Do:

Repairing Concrete Cracks
Home Foundation Inspections
Entire House Leveling
Affordable Crawlspace Waterproofing
Concrete Slab Jacking

323-641-4171

 

An Orange County Contractor

Work goes on at homes and business properties especially near the neighborhoods of Orchard Hills, Lower Peters Canyon, Northpark, Northpark Plaza or Beckman High School.

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