Turtle Rock Foundation and Concrete Problems

You can find budget-friendly solutions to prevalent building structure, damp crawlspace or sinking cement slab incidents.

If you worry you are having a challenge with one of these areas, you should call to discuss it.

They’ll be able to speak about your problem on the phone and let you know what some of your options are.

If you wish, they could prepare a time to meet at your home for a better investigation.

It’s Hard to Tell If You Have a Problem or Not

In some circumstances, a property owner knows right away they have a structure problem.

They can see the symptoms. It’s really obvious.

Yet in other situations, it can be hard to see the symptoms.

Although many problems crop up at houses that have been around for some time, issues can appear at all different kinds of properties, from old to fairly new and from inexpensive houses to luxury homes.

Common Signs Your Home Has a Problem:

• Cracking in exterior or interior brick walls, solid surface walls or mortar
• Cracking in sheet rock between a door frame and ceiling
• New spaces around doors, mainly exterior doors and garage doors
• Sloped or uneven floors
• Separation or space between exterior walls or one wall and the chimney
• Separated or cracked interior molding, typically crown or door molding
• Big cracks in a cement foundation or floor
• Water, dampness or a musty smell down in the basement
• Spaces between a ceiling and a wall and ceiling and floor
• Windows or doors that close hard or stick to their frames when you open them
• Floors are sagging, weak, warped, or a floor tile has become loose or broken
• Water collects around your house after a rain or in your crawlspace

Worried The Repair Will Be Costly?

Yes, often these problems look like they might be very hard to correct.

An OC homeowner could imagine their house issue is nearly impossible to repair, or it will cost a lot of money to get completed.

But most situations can be fixed at a reasonable cost.

These kind of house repairs are complicated.

They need a trained and experienced foundation repair contractor and staff, backed up with specialized tools, to modify and fix a sinking house foundation, conduct a house leveling or other major structure operation.

Concrete Waterproofing Service in Turtle Rock

If you’re discovering water under your house after a steady rain, they will draw up a sound strategy to prevent it from happening.

Nobody needs that.

The strategy to waterproof your foundation might not even require any sort of real work on the building structure or basement walls, but rather just modifications to the ground and landscape areas around the building. They can come up with a way to make your crawlspace dry again.

Southwest Irvine Concrete Slab Lifting Repair

If a section of your cement front sidewalk or driveway has sunk into the ground, they can remedy that too.

The process is called mudjacking (or slabjacking).

Slabjacking is kind of a cool strategy.

The procedure includes shooting a heavy mud-like solution below that part of concrete which has sunk.

The thick compound expands and fills in all of the gaps below the concrete and then incrementally forces the slab up to the height it originally was at.

Other than wanting a better appearance, the biggest reason why property owners require slab jacking is the fact that having adjoining uneven concrete segments can result in trips, accidents and stubbed toes. Nearly all jobs are done in just a few hours.

Why Do These Problems Occur?

Well, it’s just the science of soil.

The soil beneath your house shifts and moves. It swells and contracts depending on exposure to moisture and temperature. This contraction and expansion of the soil employs substantial stress on even a well-built home.

While you can’t command the weather here in California, having your house sitting on a yard that has inadequate drainage and improper grading could be large factors in whether or not you develop a bad problem at your home.

Simply installing decent rain gutters can really help keep excessive water away from your home. It’s a very easy fix that may have a big impact.

The exact variety of soil your house was built on is a highly important variable also.

Some categories of soil will swell and enlarge more than others will when they get exposed to water.

One other issue can be the existence of a large tree which is too near your property.

During a hot and dry period, a big tree’s wide roots might pull all the moisture from the ground near it.

And big roots might put pressure on your home’s structure too.

As the years pass, natural environmental pressures acting on your building structure can cause a couple of modest cracks.

Many times smaller cracks stay smaller sized; sometimes they get bigger.

Bigger splits welcome in moisture and air.

And moisture under your house isn’t a good thing.

It’s Best to Not Wait Too Long

If you are worried you could be having a predicament, you probably should have it checked.

It may be the issue you’re worried about isn’t anything big.

But once you have it inspected, at least you’ll know for certain.

It’s normal to hope that your issue just goes away on its own, but a cement crack or foundation fault will not mend itself.

It won’t get better all by itself.

It’s always safer to fix the problem now as opposed to later.

Once moisture repeatedly leaks under a house it may cause dilemmas including mold.

Mold could get serious. And it may get worse over time.

Thinking that you could try to sell your house rather than actually doing any of the repair work usually isn’t the greatest idea either.

Only a few property buyers have an interest in a house that has any indication of water in the basement or obvious foundation problems.

And, if you are currently working to sell your home, you will need to let a serious buyer know about significant physical problems with your home or you may be in civil trouble later.

A number of cases that seem way too challenging to correct in the homeowner’s opinion can actually become fixed by the right company.

They may involve a sophisticated and often difficult number of steps, but they can get done.

Are They the Right Choice for Your House?

When deciding on a contractor to get your house sorted out, there are a small handful of decent choices.

With experienced crew and equipment, they can carefully inspect, plan and carry out your repair service and get your residence back to new condition.

Where in Orange County Do They Operate?

They operate all over the center of OC. They do most jobs around the southwest Irvine neighborhoods of Strawberry Farms, Concordia University and University High School neighborhoods. Just call and you can discuss the challenge you’re going through.

What They Do

– Structure Leveling
– Building Foundation Repairs
– Concrete Slab Jacking
– Building Waterproofing
– Concrete Crack Repairs

323-641-4171