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Over time, foundations can deteriorate from various causes, water being one of the most common. When a foundation has horizontal cracking, multiple vertical cracks less than 6 feet apart, or spalling (deterioration due to water intrusion) foundation replacement is often the best solution!

A lift in your laminate floor can also be caused by the way the floor's planks or joints were fitted together upon installation. If they were hammered or tapped together too tightly, this can lead to a "peaking" and then a warping in the boards. The lifting can also be due to something as simple as an uneven subfloor.

The primary purpose of earthquake retrofitting is to keep your home from being displaced from its concrete foundation - making the building safer and less prone to major structural damage during an earthquake. 

Existing homes need to be retrofitted because our understanding of the effects of earthquakes as well as construction techniques have improved after the homes were built.

Post/piers are the support system along the girder lines that support the interior flooring and framing. They consist of a concrete footing supporting a concrete pier, and a 4x4 pressure treated wood post that connects to the girder line. If these are not constructed properly, they can sink or deteriorate over time resulting in sloping floors and cracking in the interior drywall.

A lift in your laminate floor can also be caused by the way the floor's planks or joints were fitted together upon installation. If they were hammered or tapped together too tightly, this can lead to a "peaking" and then a warping in the boards. The lifting can also be due to something as simple as an uneven subfloor.


Over time concrete will begin to soften and become flaky and weak on the outside but still retain its strength inside. A spalling repair is performed by brushing off all flakes and dust off the foundation and applying a well mixed layer of repair mortar in order to preserve the concrete 

With any lateral movement, a Wall Brick Block or Stone Foundation is likely to buckle. It already has gaps in the joints and the mortar breaks down over time and Farley have deep enough of a footing.

We will replace the deficient system with a newly poured foundation and add extra reinforcement to prevent a collapse in the event of a major earthquake.


When regions of the home are bending or not level, we can jack and lift to improve floor evenness.
Sister Foundation
A new foundation is put in along the inside of the present foundation, and then bolted into the existing.

Many homeowners or realtors aren't aware of the possibility that their home's foundation might contain a structural problem. Whether it is a crack on your exterior walls or foundation walls, we have the knowledge to recognize the problem and solution and the skills to repair it. If you are a home owner and have any doubts, feel free to contact us. Our inspectors are highly trained to analyze your foundation and inform you on what is needed.

Foundation underpinning is a reparation process that reinforces foundations that have been destabilized for a range of reasons. In the process of underpinning, the area underneath the load of the foundation is repaired or strengthened. Underpinning comes in many forms and suits different kinds of repair tasks. In order to make the right choice, it is necessary to comprehend the structure of the foundation, the maintenance which are required, and what can cause the foundation to be damaged.

Caissons or in some cases called piers, are created by auguring a deep hole into the ground, and then filling it with concrete. Steel reinforcements are sometimes utilized for a portion of the length of the caisson. Caissons are drilled into bedrock. When caissons rest on soil, they are generally "belled" at the bottom to spread the load over a wider area. Special drilling bits are used to remove the soil for these "belled caissons". It is a form of deep foundation that is constructed above ground level, then sunk to the required level by excavating or dredging material from within the caisson.